The Road to Success

The author (pictured) was born in 1954 in Muleba District, Tanzania. He is a social scientist with qualifications and experience in social development and organizational management. He attended various courses and trainings in the social development arena including qualifications in: MA-Sociology (AU-USA), Diploma in Organizational Finance and Project Management, (Institute of Cultural Affairs, (ICA) Brussels, Belgium) and Advanced Diploma in Land Management and Informal Settlement Regularization (Erasmus University- IHS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Others are; Advanced Diploma in Leadership Development; (St. Francis Xavier University, COADY International Institute), Nova Scotia, Canada, Diploma in Managing Community Based Projects, (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda) and many other formal and informal short courses and trainings. He also has certificates in Facilitation skills, Technology of Participation (ToP) and Participatory Planning in Development, (PPD) from ICA, Brussels, Belgium, NGO Management (Organized by ESAURP) of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Others Certificates are; International Human Rights Training Programme" (IHRTP) from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue University, in Montreal, Canada), and Financial Management for donor funded projects from Makerere University, Uganda. Dr. Yusto Paradius Muchuruza is a holder of a Doctorate of Humanities from the Commonwealth University in the UK. He is a proficient social worker, a Facilitator and an experienced Development Practitioner. He participated and/or conducted various researches and evaluation workouts. He has written many books and presented papers at local and international forums, conferences and workshops. He is currently the Executive Director of Kagera Development and Credit Revolving Fund (KADETFU), a renowned and triumphant NGO in Tanzania.t is obvious that the author is well qualified to write this type of a Handbook. He writes from his academic qualifications and personal experience for NGOs/CSOs leaders and workers to make success of their institutions. The author asserts that most of the Development Practitioners, especially the NGO/CSO workers, have inadequate or with no skills in Organizational management with qualifications in different fields which have no connection with NGO management. This Handbook, therefore, aims at providing them with knowledge and ability to run their organizations and/or exchange experience in different fields of social development. It is a Practical reference for Development Practitioners while at work or during staff development programmes and make them understand what can be done for their work and/or their organizational effectiveness.