By Gisa Dang
As the Year of the Dragon came to a close, Asia Catalyst celebrated the graduation of nine participants of our first NGO Leadership Cohort, a year-long organizational management training program for grassroots health rights advocates in China. Over the course of the year, these NGO leaders participated in four workshops that highlighted not only management skills, but also community mobilization and basic advocacy strategies. After each workshop, the participants shared the information and skills they learned with their organizations, and jointly completed tasks relating to the various tools introduced in each workshop.
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