Development Training International (Dti) is a regional organization within SADC and headquartered in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The institution is duly registered and incorporated in Swaziland under the Business Registration Act for Incorporated Companies Act of 1912 (Section 7). By virtue of the authority granted under the powers of the act, we are legally and lawfully permitted to conduct capacity building programmes in line with the Board of Directors’ mandate. The institution’s registration number is R/76333 and its licence is renewed yearly under strict compliance with its objectives stipulated in its Articles and Memorandum of Association as a regulatory mechanism.
As a full member of SADC, Swaziland holds the protocol as the destination of training for all member states within the region, and this perfectly places our institution as the base for absorbing delegates within the block. By this recognition and acceptance, many ministries, whose list is included in their brief, have unequivocally destined almost all their training requirements to Dti over the past years.
Since then, our impact within the SADC region has widened to include development training programmes across Africa and beyond.
Our challenge in this millennium is to be part of the premier training frontier for the delivery of customized and effective training methodologies for the region and the continent.
Dti training policies are guided by both national and international training policy standards. These are:
- To achieve a progressive public and private sector.
- To facilitate the development of an administrative group of experts, who are skilful, efficient and advanced, in line with scientific development and technique of management.
- To achieve efficiency and productivity in corporate organizations.
- To achieve an equitable administration of training for all in the private and public sectors in line with national, regional and international training policy.
- To provide fair and equitable training opportunities for all our clients and stakeholders in development training.
To develop world-class training programmes through the provision of quality and professional learning opportunities accessible to all of our current and future stakeholders. This, we do to increase productivity and efficiency in all areas of organizational development.
Objectives
Our objectives are:
- To develop human resources potential in all sectors towards excellence in service through training for national regional and international development.
Operational Objectives
Our partnerships and collaborative training programmes extend far more to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), specialized institutions, Government Ministries and Departments, Donor and Bilateral Agencies, Universities, and professional associations. Dti is an institutional member of the Society for International Development (SID) in Italy.
These institutional training partners maintain their autonomy, but have the need for staff capacity building initiative in which we play a major role as their recognized and most trusted institutional training partner.
- To provide training for public and private sector officials to increase their knowledge and skills and to enhance positive attitudes through training.
- To raise the quality of leadership and management of organizations.
- To conduct research, publications, and provide consultancy services to instill corporate culture and values within the workplace.
- To provide a forum to encourage and promote ideas on creativity in management in both the public and private sectors.
To establish linkages with local and international agencies and institutions for strategic collaborative alliances to promote development and capacity building for human kind.
To develop world-class training programmes through the provision of quality and professional learning opportunities accessible to all of our current and future stakeholders. This, we do to increase productivity and efficiency in all areas of organizational development.
Objectives
Our objectives are:
- To develop human resources potential in all sectors towards excellence in service through training for national regional and international development.
Operational Objectives
Our partnerships and collaborative training programmes extend far more to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), specialized institutions, Government Ministries and Departments, Donor and Bilateral Agencies, Universities, and professional associations. Dti is an institutional member of the Society for International Development (SID) in Italy.
These institutional training partners maintain their autonomy, but have the need for staff capacity building initiative in which we play a major role as their recognized and most trusted institutional training partner.
- To provide training for public and private sector officials to increase their knowledge and skills and to enhance positive attitudes through training.
- To raise the quality of leadership and management of organizations.
- To conduct research, publications, and provide consultancy services to instill corporate culture and values within the workplace.
- To provide a forum to encourage and promote ideas on creativity in management in both the public and private sectors.
To establish linkages with local and international agencies and institutions for strategic collaborative alliances to promote development and capacity building for human kind.
- To ensure all training curriculum incorporates development of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
- To broaden training opportunities for our clients through the provision of training manuals, training of trainers, and the franchise system.
- To design and compliment priority training programmes in line with current needs and policies.
- To foster the use of case studies in training.
- To equip Dti’s trainers with specialized knowledge and skills through a Trainer’s Certificate programme.
- To provide in-house and outreach training programmes for our clients in their home countries.
Arising from the need for our high quality and relevant training products, our institution has adopted the following core training areas:
- Management and Administration
- Financial Management, Auditing and Accountability
- Project Management
- Computers and Information Technology Environment
- Human Resource Management & Planning
- Rural, Agriculture and Environment
- Gender and Participatory Management
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Health Programme
- Non-classified Programmes Listing
On this basis, Dti collaborates with its clients in delivering courses that seek to address the above areas. At Dti, we continue to identify and respond to our clients’ needs through on-going situational analysis. Plans are underway to introduce distance-learning degrees and postgraduate qualifications with leading international universities and other institutions of higher learning in the USA, Canada and the U.K.
