Key facts
- Dates
- 13–15 Sep 2027 (3 days)
- Where
- Kigali, Rwanda
- Fee per participant
- £1,500 (GBP)
- Payment
- By invoice and bank transfer
- Registration closes
- 14 Aug 2027
- Who it is for
- Project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors; Public procurement directors and senior procurement specialists; Human resources development managers…
- Certificate
- Certificate of completion
- In-house option
- Run it for your team, on your dates
On this page 12 sections
Programme Overview
Managing international technical assistance requires rigorous governance, clear procurement alignment, and intentional institutional capacity building. Executing agencies and Project Implementation Units (PIUs) frequently deploy external advisory teams under multilateral funding frameworks. However, without structured contract management and robust absorption systems, investments risk creating operational dependencies rather than durable public sector capability. This three-day executive programme in Kigali equips public managers with practical systems to supervise, monitor, and extract strategic value from international consultancies.
Delegates will examine the lifecycle of technical assistance operations, from precision structuring of Terms of Reference (ToRs) to final contract closeout. The curriculum covers fiduciary governance, delivery-linked payment frameworks, and active performance supervision under standard multilateral development bank regulations. Emphasis is placed on managing the complex relationship between external technical specialists and national counterparts, ensuring that consultant activities align directly with national institutional mandates and project development objectives.
A central component of the workshop focuses on sustainable skills transmission and institutional memory preservation. Participants will develop operational frameworks for counterpart twinning, intellectual property retention, and structured workflow handover. By examining real-world delivery instruments, public sector leaders will leave prepared to enforce accountability, manage professional performance, and embed knowledge directly into civil service structures before the conclusion of technical assistance assignments.
Public agencies across West Africa, including in Benin, are deploying significant international advisory support funded through multilateral lenders, as illustrated by recent operations requiring international technical assistance teams for large-scale institutional modernisation. The success of these operations depends on the procuring agency's ability to direct external expertise, enforce contractual milestones, and safeguard technical transfer rather than relying indefinitely on external delivery systems. Strengthening counterpart oversight and knowledge retention is essential to ensure donor-financed reforms build lasting sovereign administrative capacity.
Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Kigali, Rwanda, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.
The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability
- Aligning Technical Assistance requirements with multilateral procurement regulations and project development objectives
- Drafting enforceable Terms of Reference: Scope boundaries, output specifications, and delivery timelines
- Structuring consultant remuneration: Time-based versus lump-sum contracts and deliverable-linked payment milestones
- Establishing the governance architecture: PIU reporting lines, counterpart designations, and advisory steering committees
- Workshop on evaluating technical proposals and validating proposed methodology transfer mechanisms
- Inception phase oversight: Reviewing inception reports, baseline validations, and detailed work plans
- Active technical supervision: Monitoring consultant presence, field inputs, and milestone deliverables
- Fiduciary oversight: Validating timesheets, reimbursable expenses, and deliverable verification protocols
- Strategic thinking and direction setting
- Leading and developing teams
- Decision making and problem solving
- Communication and influence
It is designed for project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors, public procurement directors and senior procurement specialists, human resources development managers in ministries and state agencies and others who want practical, current skills in leadership, management and communication.
The Growing Importance of Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali
Institutions change faster than ever: new policies, technologies and expectations from citizens and partners. Leaders and managers who can set direction, build teams and manage change make the difference between plans and results.
Strong leadership is a set of practical skills: deciding, communicating, negotiating, developing people and leading change. These skills can be learnt and improved with practice and feedback.
Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:
- Set clear direction and priorities
- Lead and motivate teams through change
- Communicate and negotiate effectively
- Manage performance fairly
- Make sound decisions under pressure
Strong leadership, management and communication systems help organisations:
- Turn strategies into results
- Build motivated, capable teams
- Manage change with less resistance
- Improve relations with partners and stakeholders
This Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.
Who Should Attend This Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training?
This programme is designed for:
- Project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors
- Public procurement directors and senior procurement specialists
- Human resources development managers in ministries and state agencies
- Institutional reform and modernisation officers
- Technical directors responsible for counterpart team supervision
- Public sector contract managers and legal advisors
- Monitoring and evaluation directors for donor-funded projects
- Ministry focal points overseeing bilateral and multilateral advisory assignments
- Directors and senior managers
- Heads of department and unit
- Middle managers and team leaders
- Project and programme managers
The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.
Tick what your team needs to be able to do.
Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training, participants will be able to:
- Draft Terms of Reference with explicit capability metrics, deliverables, and counterpart support requirements
- Apply standard multilateral contract provisions and key performance indicators to manage international advisory teams
- Establish formal counterpart mentoring structures and professional twinning arrangements within civil service departments
- Implement milestone-based verification mechanisms for payment authorisation and technical quality assurance
- Manage contractual variations, operational disputes, and non-performance through established administrative procedures
- Secure legal ownership and structured archival handover for all project methodologies, data, and intellectual property
- Formulate institutional absorption strategies to sustain reforms following the demobilisation of external experts
- Explain current approaches to leadership in public and private institutions
- Set direction and priorities for their team
- Lead, motivate and develop people
Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.
Programme Contents and Structure
- Aligning Technical Assistance requirements with multilateral procurement regulations and project development objectives
- Drafting enforceable Terms of Reference: Scope boundaries, output specifications, and delivery timelines
- Structuring consultant remuneration: Time-based versus lump-sum contracts and deliverable-linked payment milestones
- Establishing the governance architecture: PIU reporting lines, counterpart designations, and advisory steering committees
- Workshop on evaluating technical proposals and validating proposed methodology transfer mechanisms
- Inception phase oversight: Reviewing inception reports, baseline validations, and detailed work plans
- Active technical supervision: Monitoring consultant presence, field inputs, and milestone deliverables
- Fiduciary oversight: Validating timesheets, reimbursable expenses, and deliverable verification protocols
- Managing underperformance: Contractual default notices, remediation plans, and formal contract variation procedures
- Case clinic on mitigating operational frictions between international experts and national public servants
- Designing structured counterpart pairing frameworks: On-the-job training, job shadowing, and joint delivery
- Intellectual property governance: Source code, methodological manuals, analytical models, and data security
- Evaluating knowledge transfer: Competency assessment tools for national counterparts and civil service staff
- Final contract closeout procedures: Operational handover checklists, completion reports, and final audit clearance
- Practical simulation: Designing an institutional continuity plan to sustain systems post-demobilisation
Full day-by-day contents
The programme runs over 3 days. Each day combines expert input, practical work and a closing workshop or case study:
- First Day: Contractual Governance, TOR Structuring, and Technical Selection
- Second Day: Performance Management, Supervised Delivery, and Dispute Mitigation
- Third Day: Counterpart Twinning, Institutional Absorption, and Contract Closeout
Full day-by-day contents
First Day | Contractual Governance, TOR Structuring, and Technical Selection
- Aligning Technical Assistance requirements with multilateral procurement regulations and project development objectives
- Drafting enforceable Terms of Reference: Scope boundaries, output specifications, and delivery timelines
- Structuring consultant remuneration: Time-based versus lump-sum contracts and deliverable-linked payment milestones
- Establishing the governance architecture: PIU reporting lines, counterpart designations, and advisory steering committees
- Workshop on evaluating technical proposals and validating proposed methodology transfer mechanisms
Workshop: Contractual Governance, TOR Structuring, and Technical Selection: Applying It to Your Institution
Working in small groups, participants apply the day's methods to examples from their own institutions and agree practical next steps.
Second Day | Performance Management, Supervised Delivery, and Dispute Mitigation
- Inception phase oversight: Reviewing inception reports, baseline validations, and detailed work plans
- Active technical supervision: Monitoring consultant presence, field inputs, and milestone deliverables
- Fiduciary oversight: Validating timesheets, reimbursable expenses, and deliverable verification protocols
- Managing underperformance: Contractual default notices, remediation plans, and formal contract variation procedures
- Case clinic on mitigating operational frictions between international experts and national public servants
Workshop: Performance Management, Supervised Delivery, and Dispute Mitigation: Applying It to Your Institution
Working in small groups, participants apply the day's methods to examples from their own institutions and agree practical next steps.
Third Day | Counterpart Twinning, Institutional Absorption, and Contract Closeout
- Designing structured counterpart pairing frameworks: On-the-job training, job shadowing, and joint delivery
- Intellectual property governance: Source code, methodological manuals, analytical models, and data security
- Evaluating knowledge transfer: Competency assessment tools for national counterparts and civil service staff
- Final contract closeout procedures: Operational handover checklists, completion reports, and final audit clearance
- Practical simulation: Designing an institutional continuity plan to sustain systems post-demobilisation
Capstone Exercise: Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Action Plan for Your Institution
Participants bring the week together in an action plan for their own institution, with priorities, owners and first steps, and present it for feedback from peers and facilitators.
Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training Methodology
The training is delivered through interactive lectures, practical case clinics, and hands-on simulation exercises. Participants work with standard contract templates, real-world project terms of reference, and counterpart supervision protocols. Daily peer-review sessions allow institutional leaders to analyse common procurement and operational pitfalls, applying multilateral development bank standards to real administrative scenarios and drafting usable workplace instruments.
The programme combines:
- Expert-led sessions on current practice
- Regional and international case studies
- Group work and practical exercises
- Simulations and role plays where relevant
- Discussion of participants' own challenges
- Peer learning across institutions and countries
- Practical tools and templates to take back to work
- Daily reflection and action planning
Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.
Expected Outcomes
Upon completion of this Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training, participants will be able to:
- Complete operational capacity to draft, review, and negotiate technical assistance scopes of work and contracts
- Functioning supervisory frameworks to enforce deliverable schedules and manage consultant performance effectively
- Standardised counterpart pairing and mentoring plans embedded into project execution structures
- Auditable deliverable acceptance and milestone verification procedures for multilateral financial compliance
- Comprehensive institutional protocols for retaining data, software licenses, and procedural documentation
- Actionable handover strategies that ensure project initiatives continue seamlessly following consultant departure
- Set clear direction and priorities
- Lead and develop teams
Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.
£1,500 per participant · invoice and bank transfer · groups of 5 or more receive a discount
Five or more from one organisation: ask for the group rate on the invoice request.
Ten or more: an in-house version for your institution may cost less per person. Ask for an in-house quote.
Registration closes in 275 days (14 Aug 2027)
Institutional Application of Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training
This programme supports organisations in strengthening:
- Leadership and management
- Team development
- Change management
- Communication
- Performance management
Participants return with practical tools to improve:
- Team plans
- Coaching
- Change plans
- Stakeholder communication
- Performance reviews
The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.
Regional Relevance & Application
Europe
European institutions apply leadership, management and communication within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.
Africa
Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in leadership, management and communication increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.
Middle East
In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on leadership, management and communication. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.
Asia
Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.
Pacific
Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to leadership, management and communication that suit smaller institutions.
Holding the programme in Kigali, Rwanda brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how leadership, management and communication is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.
Host Country Profile – Rwanda
Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Kigali, Rwanda by Risalat Consultants International
Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.
Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training Deliverables
Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.
Before the Programme
- Participant Pre-Assessment
- Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Readiness Assessment
- Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Resource Pack
- Preparatory Reading Materials
- Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory
During the Programme
- Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
- Accommodation with Breakfast
- Welcome Networking Dinner
- Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
- Comprehensive Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali Training Manual
- Leadership Self-Assessment
- Team Development Plan Template
- Change Plan Template
- Negotiation Preparation Sheet
- Practical Workshops & Simulations
- Group Discussions & Peer Learning
- Daily Lunch and Refreshments
- Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
- Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
- Field Visit (where applicable)
- Entertaining City Tour
After the Programme
- Certificate of Completion
- Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
- Post-Training Reference Materials
- Personal Development Plan Template
- Coaching Conversation Guide
- Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
- Programme Report
Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.
Common Challenges in Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali, And How This Training Helps
How can institutions set clear direction and priorities?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Contractual Governance, TOR Structuring, and Technical Selection), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions lead and motivate teams through change?
The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Performance Management, Supervised Delivery, and Dispute Mitigation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions communicate and negotiate effectively?
The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Counterpart Twinning, Institutional Absorption, and Contract Closeout), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions manage performance fairly?
The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Contractual Governance, TOR Structuring, and Technical Selection), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
How can institutions make sound decisions under pressure?
The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Performance Management, Supervised Delivery, and Dispute Mitigation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where does the Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali programme take place?
It runs from 13 Sep 2027 to 15 Sep 2027, in Kigali, Rwanda. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.
Who should attend?
The programme is designed for project Implementation Unit (PIU) directors, public procurement directors and senior procurement specialists, human resources development managers in ministries and state agencies, institutional reform and modernisation officers, and others who want practical skills in leadership, management and communication.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.
Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?
Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.
Do I need prior experience in leadership, management and communication?
No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.
Who Will Deliver This Programme
Each date is delivered by a team assigned from Risalat's expert network for this subject. For this programme we assign:
How we choose them: Experience in the region of the participants or comparable settings; Command of the financier rules that apply (World Bank, ADB, AfDB, EU, UN) where relevant; Delivery in English; other languages on request for in-house groups; No conflict of interest with participants' institutions.
Names and short CVs of the assigned experts are shared with registered participants and sponsoring organisations before the programme, on request. Are you an expert in this subject? Join our expert network.
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Why Kigali for this programme
Kigali is known for clean, safe streets and public sector reforms, with easy visas for African travellers.
The Management of International Technical Assistance Teams and Knowledge Transfer in Kigali programme in September 2027 brings together officials and professionals from across the Africa region and beyond. Sessions combine short inputs, case studies and group work on participants' own files, and the city's institutions can be added as a study visit on request.
Getting there: Kigali International (KGL).
Check whether you need a visa with the free Visa Checker, and ask for an invitation letter once you are registered.
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