Training and Certification on 100-Day Challenges in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Governance, Training

adjustDemocratic Republic of the Congo

In 2016, RE!NSTITUTE trained and certified 100-Day Challenge coaches to build capacity to drive locally-led development in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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The Challenge

In 2015, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo invited RE!NSTITUTE (then known as the Rapid Results Institute) to train and certify coaches in the 100-Day Challenge methodology who had been supporting Government leaders in shaping and implementing Rapid Results Initiatives in the country for several years. The goal was to have coaches support government leaders to build the capacity to support government change at the national level.

The Outcome

Over a twelve-month period, RE!NSTITUTE coaches accompanied the Congolese coaches as they launched and supported teams in all regions of the country. Along the way, they provided progressively more nuanced training about the 100-Day Challenge methodology and then observed the coaches as they implemented the concepts and tools with their teams.

13 coaches were certified following the end of the training program

Certifications

Coaches certified

The project detail

At the time of project conception, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was struggling to emerge from more than a decade of conflict. Despite its vast reserves of natural resources the country remained one of the poorest in the world with a per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of less than US$291. It was ranked 168 out of 194 countries in the 2010 Human Development Index.

The DRC Rapid Results coaches were introduced and trained on the Rapid Results approach years earlier. In 2016 and 2017, a team from RE!NSTITUTE provided additional training and certified 13 (out of 17 trainees) as Rapid Results Level I coaches. Our counterpart was the National Secretariat for Capacity Building (SENAREC), the capacity-building unit in government-sponsored by the World Bank and other funders geared to support the government with training and other capacity-building initiatives.

At the time, The Secretary General of the Ministry of Civil Service, Tudienu Magenga, said that the DRC government “would be much more advanced in its implementation of the reform of the public administration had they introduced this Rapid Results Approach in the Congolese administration 10 years ago!”

In terms of sustainability and long term impact, the use of 100-Day Challenges has helped the governments at the central and provincial levels fully adopt the deployment of the methodology as a management tool to unblock reform bottlenecks, supported by the network of coaches put in place by the project.

In 2016, 96.7 percent of institutional improvement plans achieved their targets within the agreed timeframe, compared to 20 percent in 2011.

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