12 practical topics, three days in Nairobi, and your own organisation’s risk register, control checks, compliance calendar and assurance map, built rather than described.
Practical learning experiences delivered across Africa. A few moments from previous Vantage Africa cohorts:
Almost every organisation that has failed badly had the policies. They were written, approved, filed, and never once used to stop anything.
Delegations, committees and board roles written clearly enough that nobody has to guess where a decision belongs.
A short video on why the register is not the risk management.
Video holder · Add approved clip hereWhether the thing that should catch a problem actually would, which is a different question from whether it is documented.
A register nobody opens, a policy nobody has read and a committee that rubber-stamps are all worse than nothing, because they create the appearance of oversight. This programme is about the version that would have caught the thing nobody saw coming.
The pathway is designed around what you will be able to do. You begin guided virtual learning as soon as you register, then build on it during three practical days in Nairobi, 31 May – 2 June 2027.
Governance, board roles, accountability and the risk framework.
Three focused days on controls, compliance, ethics, safeguarding and assurance, in Nairobi.
Proposed allocation: topics 1–5 are guided online and cover governance and risk; topics 6–12 are worked through during the three physical days, on your own organisation, with a facilitator beside you.
Explore each topic below. The real test is whether any of it would have stopped the last failure.
Documentation is not assurance. What gets checked here is whether each significant risk has a control attached, whether that control has been tested rather than described, and whether somebody could raise a concern and have it acted on.
Join the 12-topic pathway →Its real structure, its real obligations and its real exposure.
Beyond the operational ones, including the awkward and the reputational.
Preventive, detective or corrective — and name who owns it.
Not whether it exists, but whether it would have caught the thing.
Who checks what, how often, and what reaches the board.
The reference material comes with the programme. The thing worth carrying home is your own organisation’s risk register, control checks, compliance calendar and assurance map — built here and argued through with peers rather than copied from somewhere else.
StudyGenius guides you through progressive skill-building, practice, feedback and applied challenges. Try a lesson free.
Explore StudyGenius ↗Video placeholder — insert an approved clip of Dr. Benson testing a control against a real failure.
You are not simply buying training days. You are investing in an organisation that is harder to damage, and a community of peers.
18,000+ professionals trained across 30+ countries, including government, NGO and development-sector teams.
Guided by Dr. Benson Kiarie and experienced faculty; every exercise runs on data from real organisations.
Observable work, feedback and practical checks — and a risk and assurance pack your board could use at the next meeting.
A safeguarding case handled badly. A procurement nobody documented. A conflict of interest never declared. Failures like these end organisations that were doing good work — and they almost always trace back to a control that existed on paper and nowhere else.
See the 12 topics →Every organisation finds out whether its governance works at the worst possible moment. The ones that survive did the unglamorous work beforehand.
Bring your current register and policies. Most of the work is making them real.
The programme is built around practical work rather than attendance. You build your own register, controls and assurance map, and test them against real failures rather than discussing principles.
Yes. The pathway covers all 12 topics, 5 guided online and 7 in the room, subject to the programme’s formal assessment decisions.
The first 5 are introduced through guided online work before the workshop and cover governance and risk. The remaining 7 form the focus of the three physical days in Nairobi, spent on controls, compliance, ethics, safeguarding and assurance.
Yes. Under the standard-fee pathway, the $80 initial payment counts toward $580 and leaves $500 payable. The $480 offer is for early full payment, not the instalment plan.
The programme is planned for Nairobi, Kenya on 31 May – 2 June 2027. The exact venue will be confirmed by the Vantage Africa team before a final booking commitment.
Both, and organisations often send one of each. The board roles topic is written for trustees and directors; the control and compliance topics are written for the people who have to operate them.
No, though bring it if you have one. Several participants arrive with a register written for a board pack and leave with one their organisation can actually use.
Yes. Contact Vantage Africa for an invitation letter, invoice or a tailored in-house proposal.
Let us tailor governance, enterprise risk or a bespoke compliance and assurance pathway to your organisation, sector and challenges.
Contact Dr. Benson · +254 725 303 645 · bkiarie@vantageafricaleaders.comBecome the person who finds it before the auditor, the donor or the press does.