What is the Certified Agricultural Drone Technician?

The Certified Agricultural Drone Technician is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Agriculture & Agribusiness.

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 10 Weeks and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Intermediate Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@certifications.ac, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

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Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

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Foundations and Professional Context of Certified Agricultural Drone Technician

Certified Agricultural Drone Technician: industry context, trends and professional standards
The agricultural sector: systems, actors and global food value chains
Professional roles, ethics and standards for agricultural practitioners
Agroecological zones, farming systems and enterprise selection
Policy, institutions and the enabling environment for agriculture
Smallholder, commercial and cooperative production models
Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
The business case for productivity, quality and sustainability
Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
Career pathways and continuing professional development
Setting professional goals and a personal development plan

Protecting and Watering the Crop

Integrated pest and disease management
Water management and irrigation practice
Climate-smart agriculture and seasonal risk
Bankable proposal development
Cooperatives and collective enterprise
Scaling and growth strategies
Agricultural value chain analysis
Market systems and price discovery
Market linkages and aggregation
Contract farming and out-grower schemes
Agro-processing and value addition
Export readiness and standards
Trade, logistics and incoterms
Demand analysis and market intelligence
Branding and product differentiation

Livestock in the System

Livestock husbandry and productivity
Feed, fodder and livestock nutrition
Animal health, disease and biosecurity
Responsible use of agrochemicals and inputs
Animal welfare and ethical production
Cost-effectiveness and value-for-money analysis
Peer review and expert feedback
Crop physiology, growth stages and yield determinants
Cropping systems, rotations and intercropping
Seed selection, quality, treatment and certification
Planting, spacing, and crop establishment techniques
Integrated pest management (IPM) principles and practice
Disease identification, epidemiology and control
Weed ecology and integrated weed management
Plant nutrition, foliar feeding and micronutrients

Harvest and Post-Harvest

Harvest timing, maturity and yield assessment
Post-harvest loss and handling
Storage, drying and stock management
Rural livelihoods, food security and nutrition
Soil health and fertility management
Crop nutrition and fertiliser use efficiency
Seed selection, varieties and seed systems
Crop planning, rotation and the cropping calendar
Agribusiness models and strategy
Farm and enterprise business planning
Enterprise budgeting and gross margins
Agricultural finance and credit
Investment appraisal and risk
Entrepreneurship and start-ups in agriculture
Record-keeping and management accounting

Markets, Margins and Records

Market access, buyers and contract farming
Farm profitability, costing and gross margins
Agri-enterprise planning and farm records
Soil chemistry, pH and cation exchange capacity
Soil biology, organic matter and the soil microbiome
Soil testing, interpretation and fertility mapping
Nutrient management planning and the 4R framework
Organic, inorganic and biological fertiliser strategies
Soil and water conservation and erosion control
Land preparation, tillage and conservation agriculture
Land-use planning, capability and degradation management
Liming, amendments and rehabilitation of degraded soils
Professional writing: reports, proposals and briefs
Harvest timing, methods and quality optimisation
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and field record-keeping

Finance, Inputs and Organisation

Agricultural finance and credit for farmers
Input supply, agro-dealers and last-mile distribution
Farmer organisation, aggregation and cooperatives
Emerging agri-tech and innovation adoption
Regenerative and conservation agriculture practices
Carbon, greenhouse gases and soil carbon sequestration
Biodiversity, pollinators and ecosystem services
Climate risk, forecasting and resilient practices
Water stewardship and drought management
Good Agricultural and Handling Practices along the chain
Grades, standards and export certification (GlobalG.A.P.)
Pesticide residues, MRLs and safe use
Cold chain, packaging and shelf-life management
Participatory rural appraisal and needs assessment
Demonstration, on-farm trials and technology transfer

Soil, Nutrition and Establishment

Soil health and fertility management
Crop nutrition and fertiliser use efficiency
Seed selection, varieties and seed systems
Value addition and processing decisions
Cold chain and perishable produce logistics
Traceability, certification and export requirements
Livestock species, breeds and selection criteria
Animal nutrition, ration formulation and feeding systems
Breeding, reproduction and genetic improvement
Housing, welfare and environmental management
Herd and flock health planning and biosecurity
Common diseases, prevention and veterinary basics
Pasture, forage and rangeland management
Dairy, poultry, and small-ruminant enterprise management
Livestock records, performance and productivity metrics

Operations and Quality

The organisational context and operating environment
Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
Process improvement and lean thinking
Quality management and standards
Productivity and efficiency improvement
Strategic sourcing process and RFx
Transaction lifecycle and processing
The procurement cycle and operating models
Procurement transformation and operating models
Process efficiency and cycle time
Data quality and master data management
Analytical techniques and bias
Outcome and process measures
Quality and delivery metrics
Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan

Communication and Advisory

Corporate social responsibility communications
Presentation and public speaking
Professional report and presentation
Metrics and reporting
Voice, communication and delivery
Management reporting and decision support
Board reporting and information flows
Governance of ESG and reporting
Management and board reporting
Safety communication and campaigns
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Internal communications
Communicating risk to the workforce
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Preparing financial statements

Policy, Land and Legal

Contract farming, aggregation and out-grower schemes
Sustainability certification and standards
The regulatory landscape and central banking
Contract law and formation
Contract exit and renewal
Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
The regulatory and legal environment
Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Environmental legal compliance
Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
Contractor and visitor safety
Policy, planning and objectives
Legal and other requirements
Certification and continual improvement

Health and Nutrition

Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
Confidentiality and health data
Interpreting financial statements
Health records, data and confidentiality
Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
Telehealth and digital care delivery
Absence, capability and ill-health management
Leadership impact and organisational health metrics

Stakeholders and Partners

Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
Stakeholder communications
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Stakeholders and users of financial information
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Shareholder and stakeholder rights
Categories of spend and stakeholders
Strategic customer relationships
Proposal development and donor reporting
Procurement and asset management under donor rules
Relationship management and retention
Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
Managing difficult stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping in banking

Labour and Workforce

Employee engagement models and drivers
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Workforce and shift management in retail
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Workforce management and scheduling
Workforce planning and scheduling
Employee experience and engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Digital HR and the employee experience platform
Data protection and employee privacy
Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
Workforce planning and the capability gap
Employee relations, discipline and fair process

Ethics and Responsibility

Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Professional standards and ethics
Marketing and sales ethics
Brand safety and responsible marketing
Sustainability and responsible marketing
Reporting quality and governance
Budget vs actual and variance
Corporate social responsibility and community impact
Animal welfare standards and ethical husbandry
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Ethics and duty of care
Professional ethics and duty of care
Ethical decision-making under pressure

Enterprise and Innovation

Innovation and continuous delivery
Innovation and new product launch
Cost and profitability analysis
Forecasting and planning
Scaling technologies and business models
Data visualisation for finance
Communicating financial results
Farm enterprise budgeting and gross-margin analysis
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
Innovation in service delivery
Innovation and fintech collaboration
Supplier development and innovation
Business model design and innovation
Category and supplier innovation
Emerging tools and innovation

Strategy and Development

Sustaining strategic customer focus
Customer experience strategy
Brand strategy, identity and architecture
Advertising and creative development
Development banking and project finance
Communications strategy and planning
Message development and testing
Category management and strategy
Competitive bidding processes
Continuing professional development
Career pathways and professional development
Team development and effectiveness
Competitive analysis and differentiation
Product and portfolio strategy
Go-to-market and channel strategy

Learning and Adoption

Learning strategy and business alignment
Learning cultures and the learning organisation
Blended and hybrid learning design
Motivation and self-directed learning
Learning strategy and roadmaps
Building the learning brand
Aligning learning to performance
Leading the learning function
Training needs analysis and learning strategy
Knowledge management and capability building
Learning transfer and capability building
Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
Continuous improvement and learning organisations
Principles of teaching, training and learning
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability

Inclusion and Equity

Financial inclusion and agency banking
Financial inclusion strategy
The business case for diversity and inclusion
Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
Team diversity and inclusion
Brand strategy, identity and equity
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Handling vulnerable customers
Brand equity and positioning
Escalation and decision-making
Team leadership and motivation

Agricultural Practice

Attachment and developmental theory
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
Peer support and consultation
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Agricultural finance, credit and investment appraisal
Agricultural value chains and market linkages
Cooperatives, farmer organisations and collective bargaining
Farm records, bookkeeping and management accounting
Record-keeping and data protection
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Grading, standards and food safety compliance

Markets and Value Chains

Voice of the customer and feedback
Cost and price analysis
Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
How insurance works: risk pooling and the value chain
Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
Client feedback and satisfaction
The automotive market: segments, brands and buyers
Vehicle specifications, trims and options in customer language
Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle
Customer loyalty and repeat purchase in retail
How networks work: from fibre and towers to the customer
Buyer behaviour and the customer journey
Telecom products, tariffs and customer lifecycles
Supporting connectivity customers: faults, SLAs and churn
Market analysis and environmental scanning

Agricultural Finance

Alternative investments
Ration formulation and least-cost feeding
The role of finance in organisations and value creation
Return on investment and impact
Budgeting and resource management
Financial, management and cost accounting distinguished
Financial statements and the accounting equation
Ethics and professional standards in finance
The finance function and digital transformation
Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
Costing methods: absorption, marginal and activity-based
Reinsurance and capacity management
Bancassurance and digital insurance models
Claims investigation and fraud indicators
Insurance regulation and consumer protection

Environment and Climate

Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability plan
Infrastructure planning for water and mechanisation
Responsible and sustainable banking
Sustainable and green banking
Control environment and risk assessment
Sustainability, ESG and integrated value
Evidence-based improvement
Responsible and sustainable governance
Sustainability strategy and materiality
Environmental governance and climate risk
Sustainability and social impact in projects
Carbon markets and climate finance
Monitoring sustainability outcomes
Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)

Standards, Risk and Compliance

Compliance and regulatory projects
Leading project governance
Financial risk in projects
Risk identification and analysis
Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
Risk response and contingency
Programme governance and assurance
Governance of campaigns and spend
Managing growth, risk and resilience
Regulatory compliance and biosafety
Benchmarking against standards and best practice
Equipment maintenance, safety and cost management
Regulatory compliance and market requirements
Grades, standards and quality
Insurance and price-risk management

Communities and Capability

Training needs analysis
Corporate responsibility and community
Capacity planning and line balancing
Managing risk and difficult cases
Designing and facilitating groups
Leading groups and workshops
Capacity and resource optimisation
Capacity and performance management
Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
Training and capability building
Microfinance and group lending
Customer and community engagement

Projects and Delivery

Banking products, services and delivery channels
Leading banking projects and change
Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
Control monitoring and reporting
Risk-based audit planning
Tender planning and documentation
Continuous improvement of delivery
Continuous improvement of programmes
Wellness programmes and promotion
Project management principles and lifecycle
Cost reduction and efficiency programmes
Marketing planning and budgeting
Campaign planning and execution
Account planning and whitespace analysis
Leading campaigns and sales projects

Data, Records and Research

Sales analytics and forecasting tools
Market research design and methods
Qualitative and quantitative research
Baseline surveys and data collection tools
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
Data-driven decision support and analytics
Traceability, blockchain and digital records
Service analytics and dashboards
Text and interaction analytics
Data privacy and consent
Data ethics and customer privacy
Data, analytics and customer insight
Data analytics in audit
Evidence, judgement and scepticism
Data migration and cleansing

Technology in Agriculture

Customer service technology stack
Technology selection and integration
Emerging service technologies
Digital, mobile and internet banking
Digital disruption and the future of banking
Digital transformation in banking
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Cybersecurity and fraud technology
Digital credit and alternative data
Process automation and workflow
HR technology selection and implementation
Lessons learned and development

Leadership and Management

Subcontractor and supplier management
Front office and reservations management
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
Psychoeducation and workshops
Management accounts and dashboards
Decision support and insight
Duty of care and risk management
Practice management systems
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Designing an intervention or programme
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Management review and improvement
Leadership versus management and when each is needed

Supply and Logistics

Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
Professional case study and presentation
Evidence-based practice
Procurement and contract value
Procurement and contract management
Supply market analysis
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
Procurement KPIs and savings measurement
Continuous improvement and lean procurement
Procurement maturity assessment
Driving measurable procurement value

Professional Leadership Practice

Personal leadership development planning
Security risk management methodology
Category management and strategy development
Security governance and management systems
Key account management
Performance management in sales
Journey management and tracking
Property management and facility operations
Programme cycle management in NGOs
Grant compliance and restricted funding management
NGO financial management and budget-versus-actual discipline
Key account management strategy
Renewals and churn management
Field sales and territory management
Tender and bid management

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