Advance Activist Training for District Battagram

Background

To upgrade the skills of the local activist is the basic element of the Barani Area Development Project (BADP-II) the building of an organized community. Training inputs enable the organized communities to build the capacity of the leaders and activists and thus enable them to manage their community organizations in effective manners to lead their respective organizations towards sustainable development and self-reliance.
SRSP is involved Capacity Building since 1996. SRSP has also developed modules for different trainings, which is being modified time to time according to the requirement of the hour. Based on its experiences, capacity, skills and expertise of the organization in the relevant field, SRSP was thrust the responsibility of conducting different training courses for BADP – II community activists in all its working area. SRSP happily accepted this challenge of conducting training and fielded its capable staff to accomplish the mission on war footings.
Activists’ capacity builds up through different training courses and activities. It includes;

1. Basic activist training
2. Activist training
3. Advance activist training

For achieving this purpose an advance activist training for District Battagram was held in HRDC – SRSP Peshawar on 18th to 27th April, 2006.

Highlights of the training

To attend this training course 20 participants from Battagram arrived on 17th of April, 2006 to HRDC, SRSP, Peshawar (one day earlier of the training). Boarding and lodging for the participants were arranged at the HRD Center of SRSP.
Two participants from Afghanistan who were from German Agro Action (GAA) also attended the training programme.
Advance training has two major objectives
1 To enable the participants to work as social organizers in their respective communities.
2.To capacitate them to organize and conduct training activities at their own.
The training activities were divided into two parts,
1.Social mobilization
2.Training of trainers.
Each part is followed by one day exposure visit,

1. The First visit is to a grown up organization / Cluster of the project areas, the aim and objective of these visits were to introduce participants from the developmental activities and their social mobilization process.
2. The second visit is to a training institute, to know the participants about the arrangements of a training organization.

Training started daily at 9:00 am and ended at 4:30 pm but sometimes went beyond the ending time according to the requirement / importance of the topic, satisfaction of the resource person and interest of the participants. Different Resource persons, who are experts in their respective field, were invited to conduct sessions on different topics.
An Action Plan was prepared by the participants with the help of Training coordinator, that have then will spend 10 days in effective manner.
Training was concluded on 27th April, 2006 after distributing Certificates to the Participants on successful completion of the training course.