Capacity building activities are centred on various sub regional and national training workshops to enable organisations belonging to national Pamojas to become increasingly effective in participatory development practice in general and in their education and literacy work in particular.
Training of Trainers (TOT) 2009
In 2009 a sub regional TOT was organised by ReNOPAL (Pamoja Benin) in Cotonou from 8-21 June, funded by dvv International and ActionAid International.
Participants came from Togo, Benin, Haiti and Cameroon and the workshop was facilitated by Mahamadou Cheick DIARRA (Mali), Justin AKPO (Benin) and Albarka ABOUKERIM (Togo).
Benin TOT report
Morocco's first ever Reflect TOT's took place in October and November 2009 organised by dvv International. 25 participants took part in a workshop in Marrakesh facilitated by Sue UPTON (Mali) and Said DOUK (Morocco) from 27th October to 5th November 2009 and a further 30 participants attended a workshop in Tanger, facilitated by Mamadou Tiori DIARRA (Mali) and Abdennacer LEBBARDI, Noura TALEBI and Hassan Imezda (Morocco).
Group Work
Field work
Budget Tracking
The first workshop took place in Guinea in December 2007 to build the capacity of communities and development workers to identify, analyse and interpret budgets for public spending, with the aim of contributing to improvments in governance and the managmement of public ressources. The workshop concentrated on:
- Identifying and analysing participants' knowledge and practice concerning budget tracking;
- Introducing the principals of budget tracking and strategies, activities and tools to use;
- Planning to develop budget tracking in the countries represented at the workshop.
The team from Guinea Conakry
Pedagogy of literacy
Following a regional workshop in Cape Town, representatives of National Pamojas from Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau looked at their various understandings of literacy, shared effective Reflect literacy practice and discussed the idea of developping a common framework for evaluating literacy programmes.
Mapping the literate environment
School governance
In January 2007 Oxfam GB initiated a workshop in Burkina Faso. It aimed to improve the quality of school governance systems in the areas where OGB's education programme operates and to increase the participation of all stakeholders in the local management of education. Oxfam wanted to create more space for discussing education challenges at the local level and provide opportunities for such discussions to feed into the themes and priorities of local, national and international campaigns. The school governance manuel developed by Pamoja in 2005 was translated and adapted to form the basis of the workshop.
Analysis of the managment of a school cantine
STAR
STAR integrates learning from work in the HIV/AIDS sector with the Reflect approach to put HIV and AIDS at the heart of development discussions and activities. It started in East Africa and in June 2006 the first training for the francophone countries of West Africa took place in Guinea. The workshop aimed to furthering understanding and reflection about the approach in the francophone context. The workshop objectives were to:
- Develop and build capacity to start new initiatives or integrate STAR into existing programmes;
- Facilitate the use of STAR as an advocacy tool to encourage sustainable development;
- Introduce the STAR approach to Reflect newtworks.
Participants, facilitators and partners
Reflect
Training of trainers takes about 16 days and the following modules are adapted according to the needs of the participants. Facilitator training is an adaptation of the same modules.
PRA (Introduction to PRA tools and techniques)
- History of PRA
- What is PRA ?
- Principle PRA tools and techniques
- Literacy analysis
- Analysis of various organisations
- The concepts of Paulo Freire
- Integrating Reflect and Gender
- Linking PRA and literacy
- Field work
- Training for facilitators
- Putting Reflect into practice
- How to write learning units
- Monitoring and evaluation
- The literate environment
- Action planning
Groups of men and women reproducing PRA tools
