CHAPTER -6
COMMUNITY TRAINING
HRD Center HRD Center
Human Resource Development
In order to reduce the poverty and promote sustainable development, HN TPO makes great efforts towards institutional development and capacity building. This is done through harnessing people's potential to help them-selves by establishing a network of grassroots level institutions at the village level.
With the above objective in mind, the HRD section of HN TPO was established in 1996 with the primary focus to design and implement institutional strengthening and capacity building training for community leaders, activists, extension workers and its staff. The section was aimed to;
- To improve the performance of HN TPO staff and its community organization by maximizing the effectiveness and performance of the staff and community members, we are going to develop our
- knowledge and skills, our actions and standards, our motivation, incentives, attitudes and work environment. To develop the managerial and technical skills of community members.
- To design & implement the managerial and technical capacity building training of community members, identified by their respective community organizations.
- to equip HN TPO staff with the sound conceptual understanding of the participatory development and other managerial skills;
- and lastly to provide training facilities to other government and non-government organizations, in the field of community organization and participatory development.
The long journey on the road of development has developed HRD section into a full fledged HRD Centre, which can now be rightly termed as one of the state of the art training institute. The training institute is located in Mansehra which is both near to the city as well as calm and quiet.
Training for the professionals and communities are specially being designed to respond to their job requirements. With the passage of time and experience in the field, HRD Centre is incorporating new courses according to the needs and feedback from the previous training. HRDC has designed and conducted training in the following areas;
- Social mobilization;
- Managerial capacity building of the community groups and their leaders;
- Microfinance;
- Gender & Development;
- PRA, NRM and Health Education.
The client age of HN TPO' HRD Centre include govt. projects like South FATA Development Project; Dir Area Support Project, Barani Area Development Project-Phase
1, Essential Institutional Reforms Operationalization Programme (EIROP). Among the NGOs and other international organizations, HN TPO has imparted training to the staff and communities of IUCN, OXFAM, UNDP, DTCE, GTZ, Care International, Swedish Committee etc. Similarly HN TPO has also remained involved in the capacity building of many NGOs in Afghanistan like MADERA
In order to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development, HN TPO makes continuous efforts towards institutional development and capacity building at the community level. This is done through harnessing people's potential to help them-selves by establishing a network of grassroots level institutions at the village level.
With the above objective in mind, the HRD section of HN TPO was established in 1996; with a focus to design and implement institutional strengthening and capacity building training for community leaders, activists, extension workers and its staff.
Improving development effectiveness
In 2003, HN TPO in partnership with UNICEF in Upper Dir , strengthened its focus on development effectiveness through renewed focus of its project portfolio, creating and strengthening greater partnerships with key stakeholders, applying lessons learned from its initial work with UNICEF and intensifying focus on results.
Under this partnership with financial & technical assistance from UNICEF, the project activities have been initiated in 9 selected union councils of District Upper Dir. These union councils were selected in consultation with District Education Department and District Government. The focus under the partnership is at:
- Establishing 27 Community Based Schools focusing girl child in nine selected union councils
- Capacity building of Community Based and Government schools’ teachers and Parent Teachers Association
- improving/rehabilitation of Water Environment & Sanitation (WES) facilities in government girls’ primary schools
- Constitution of volunteer network forums
- Continued support to 21 out of 60 CBS established by Dir-Kohistan Project
- Linkages and networking
Social mobilization is the centerpiece of the project strategy for establishing community based schools, though the capacity building and improving/rehabilitation of WES activities is mainly been done with District Education Department directly. Extensive dialogues, in case of CBS, at UC level are carried. To monitor the progress at union council level, Volunteer Network Forum (VNF) comprising Union Nazim/Naib Nazim, community members, Khateebs, government servants, students, media person etc. are formed. Agreement on project terms of partnership is solicited in open community dialogues.
ACTIVITIES TRAININGS ARE AT THREE LEVELS
Level-I: Basic Course for Village Office Bearers (Men and Women)
It is a 3 days non-residential course designed for the Presidents, Secretaries and active members of the community organizations. It focuses on; Program understanding and conceptual clarity with emphasis on its social mobilization component; It also enhances the understanding of participants on other Programme components like agriculture, livestock and forestry, so that smooth implementation of Programme can be ensured CO/WOs record keeping like how to minute the meeting, preparation of agenda, maintenance of savings and credit register, how to keep record of Community schemes;
Level-II: Leadership & Management Skills Training for Village Activists:
It is a 7 days course designed for the office bearers and active members of the community organization. It focuses in detail on;
- Concepts of participants on development and development approaches;
- Program strategies on different component like Microfinance, Enterprise Development, Gender & Development, NRM; leadership style;
- Skills required for the activists like communication, presentation, planning and basic accountancy;
- Salient features of Devolution Plan 2006 and formation of CCBs.
Level-III: Advance Training Course:
It a 10 days course and the participants are selected on the basis of good performance in level-II. It is basically only for very outstanding activists at the district level. Some of the contents in this course are derived from level-II but more in depth while some of the courses are totally new. It also tries to build participants' capacity as trainers. This course is generally planned for those who would be acting as Social Organizers at their own to ensure the continuity of the MCO/ WCO/ MVO/ WVOs even after the HN TPO assistance.
Session on Development and Participatory Development:
The session was started with introduction of the participants to know the understanding level, and then Brain storming about development the participants explained their view point like:
- Change
- Wealth
- Provision of facilities
- Attitudinal change
- Infrastructure
- Higher education
Development has two essential parts
- Material Development
- Immaterial development(Mental development, behavioral change, social change etc)
Top –down approach is concerned with material development only. While Participatory development focuses on both.
1 Elements of development:
Any development programme must focus on
- People centered development
- Poverty reduction
- Women development
- Environment friendly development( our development activities should not be harmful for the natural environment)
Session on Leadership
Resource person started the session with brainstorming about the word “Leader” and the participant’s views are
- In charge
- Who solve the problems of others
- Manager
- Prestigious
- Trustworthy
- Head f the group
- Responsible
Resource person through slides explained his point of view:
- Who influences others positively
- All people are leaders at different levels
- All have give & take relations with others
- Take appropriate actions according to the situation
Then the types of leader were discussed and explained to the participants through board and slides.
- Dictator/Autocratic
This type of leaders is self centered people. They do not share things with the people and take decisions with out consultation of the people. They always impose their opinion to others.
- Democratic
Democratic leaders work with people according to their wish. They keep all things open to the people and take their point of view for any matter. They take decisions by consensus.
- Free Rein
This is very week type of leaders. They listen to all and can not make any decision. They cannot say no to others that’s why always suffer.
- Situational
Forth type of leaders is situational leaders. They are a mix of autocratic ad democratic. They move according to the situation for the best interest of their people.
Although leaders should have above qualities but there are some basic qualities without which no one claim him/herself a leader. These are
- Should have clear objectives
- Have good communication skills
Can motivate people for the achievement of the goal.
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