Special Training Courses only in Cambodia
Second semester 2014
Second semester 2014
Date
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Training Courses
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Key Facilitator
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Price
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25-29
Aug
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Enhancing
Market Access of Poor Farmers through Value Chain Development
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Ms. Sheilah Vergara
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400$
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01-05
Sep
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Analyzing
Policy, Methods and Tools to Mainstream Gender in Rural Development Projects
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Ms. Sheilah Vergara
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400$
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08-12
Sep
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Strengthening
SMEs through Value Chain Assessment
and Analysis
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Ms. Sheilah Vergara
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400$
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06-10
Oct
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Participatory
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
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Ms. Marissa Espineli
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400$
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24-28
Nov
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Addressing
Household Food Security in the Context of Changing Climate and Environment
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Dr. Julian Gonsalves
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400$
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01-05
Dec
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Nutrition
garden interventions in schools and communities
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Dr. Julian Gonsalves
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400$
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Course Highlights
Special Discounts
Returning Students
Group discount
The investment fee is to be payable three
weeks before the training date at STAR Kampuchea – IIRR’s Foreign Trade Bank
of Cambodia account number: Dollar S/A #020-30-400-002915-2
IIRR reserves the right to cancel the
course two weeks before the schedule if the required quorum is not met. This
will be immediately conveyed to the applicants. Course fees will be refunded
in full.
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Training on Enhancing Market Access of Poor Farmers
through Value Chain Development
The course provides participants with
in-depth analysis of various market forces and linkages between small scale
rural producers, processing firms, buyers in urban areas and input suppliers
to improve market access of poor farmers through value chain development.EDI
Training on Analyzing Policy, Methods and Tools to
Mainstream Gender in Rural Development Projects
This course focuses on assessing equal
gender participation in development projects and in improving program/project
design and implementation to encourage equal participation of both gender in
development processes.
Training on Strengthening Small and Medium Scale
Enterprises through Value Chain Assessment and Analysis
The course provides an overview of concepts
and principles in value chain, development of SMEs and the importance of
business development services. It tackles market assessment; value chain
analysis; and design and management of SMEs for long-term sustainability.
Training on Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning
The course focuses on participatory
monitoring, evaluation and learning as a management tool for strengthening
participation, enhancing local capacity, and increasing local people’s
confidence and control over development decisions and processes.
Training on Addressing Household Food Security in the
Context of Changing Climate and Environment
The course addresses the challenges that
small holders are expecting to face in meeting their food and livelihood
needs especially the challenges posed by climate change. A range of
approaches to address these challenges will be discussed including Climate
smart agriculture approaches in a range of ecosystems (forest, upland, rained
lowlands and coastal),
Training on Nutrition garden interventions in schools
and communities
This is
a skills development course which will focus on ways to leverage the
nutrition contributions of agriculture using bio intensive and conservation
agriculture approaches. Special
attention will be devoted to school and family nutrition. Attention will be devoted
to ways of conserving local agro biodiversity for nutrition and livelihood
needs. Participants will discuss ways
to link gardens, nutrition and school education programs.
Please contact: Mr. Or Thy, Cambodia
Country Manager
Mobile No.: (855) 12-985-272 Telephone
No.:(855) 23-211-612
E-mail:
cambodia@iirr.org / orthy.smt@gmail.com
Address: #71, St 123/468, Sangkat Tuol
Tumpong I, Khan Chamkamorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
IIRR IS A LEADER IN PROVIDING INTERNATIONAL
TRAINING COURSES. VISIT www.iirr.org for more details. We also provides
customize training, training needs assessment, program and organization
evaluation, baseline development, organizing events, documenting experiences
and conducting writeshops for project learning purposes.
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FACILITATORS and RESOURCE PERSONS
SHEILAH S. VERGARA
Sheilah is the Program Specialist for Training and Capacity Building Specialist at IIRR’s Regional Center for Asia starting 2011. She started working in IIRR in 2006 as Program Manager of the Community Agricultural Program (CATP), funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). She continued the CATP Program with the Southeast Asian Fisheries and Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) in 2009 and had a brief stint as Training Officer of the Aboitiz Power Renewables Incorporated in 2010. As IIRR Program Specialist, she leads the designing, coordinating, facilitating and monitoring of International Training Courses, Customized Courses and Study Programs on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Writeshop Process, Enterprise and Livelihood, Value Chain Development, Food Security, Gender, Natural Resource Management, Participatory Local Governance, and other development courses. These trainings are being held in the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan and Nepal. As early as 2006, she has already been facilitating sessions for IIRR’s international training courses and writeshops in Pakistan, Indonesia, Malawi and the Philippines.
She has Ph.D. units in Environmental Science and Management, a Masters in Management major in Agribusiness Management and a Bachelors of Science in Development Communication major in Development Journalism from the University of the Philippines Los Banos.
MARISSA B. ESPINELI
Marise is currently IIRR’s Regional Center for Asia Director. She has over 30 years experience in development, having worked in organizational and program leadership, capacity development, monitoring and evaluation, training development and management, gender mainstreaming, fundraising and financial management in Asia, Africa and Latin America. An experienced trainer, Marise has been with IIRR’s training department for over 10 years in various capacities such as Head, Education and Training Program, Director for Education and Training Department, Assistant Director for Training, and Training Specialist. She was Deputy Director for the Regional Center for Asia from 2004 to 2006. Now as IIRR regional director, Marise provides leadership, technical and process-based inputs and resources to IIRR programs and systems that support program implementation. She led the establishment of IIRR’s country program in Cambodia.
As member of the Prolinnova International Support Team, Marise provides support to developing and implementing its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. She facilitated the M&E training for Prolinnova partners in 2010 in Ethiopia. Marise was also Director of the Aga Khan Foundation’s Programme for Professional Development. She led the setting of programmatic direction for a capacity development program for development professionals from the government and CSOs for sustainable development of the Central Highlands Region of Afghanistan. The program was in close coordination with the government of Bamyan and other international organizations.
Marise holds a Masters in International and Intercultural Management from the World Learning Institute in Vermont, USA and is currently completing a PhD in Applied Cosmic Anthropology from the Asian Social Institute, Manila.
JULIAN F. GONSALVES
Julian has thirty-five years of experience in the design, management and evaluation of international rural and agricultural research and development programs. He is currently a freelance consultant, reviewer, and evaluator for international and regional organizations (including IIRR) and donor agencies. His special areas of interest/competence are in: Program formulation/design, review and evaluation, external assessment, training design and evaluation; Sustainable resource use and management; Farmer-led extension; Community-based natural resources management/community forestry; Participatory development approaches; Designing integrated conservation development activities; Research partnerships; Strengthening institutional capacity and human resources development; Networking, advocacy and collaborative mechanisms for effective partnerships; and Approaches for scaling up impact of pilot program for research efforts.
Julian currently serves as Senior Advisor to the UPWARD CIP in the Philippines, and as a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group. For eight years, he served as Vice President-Program for the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and another eight as Director for Appropriate Technology Unit. He was responsible for proposing and first field-testing and developing the participatory workshop process for documenting best practices, considered among the more innovative services that IIRR provides globally. He was also responsible for supervising the development, fund raising and management of a portfolio of projects in agriculture, health, capacity building and training and information, education and communications. He also was on the NGO Committee of the CGIAR for three years.
Sheilah is the Program Specialist for Training and Capacity Building Specialist at IIRR’s Regional Center for Asia starting 2011. She started working in IIRR in 2006 as Program Manager of the Community Agricultural Program (CATP), funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). She continued the CATP Program with the Southeast Asian Fisheries and Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) in 2009 and had a brief stint as Training Officer of the Aboitiz Power Renewables Incorporated in 2010. As IIRR Program Specialist, she leads the designing, coordinating, facilitating and monitoring of International Training Courses, Customized Courses and Study Programs on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction, Writeshop Process, Enterprise and Livelihood, Value Chain Development, Food Security, Gender, Natural Resource Management, Participatory Local Governance, and other development courses. These trainings are being held in the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan and Nepal. As early as 2006, she has already been facilitating sessions for IIRR’s international training courses and writeshops in Pakistan, Indonesia, Malawi and the Philippines.
She has Ph.D. units in Environmental Science and Management, a Masters in Management major in Agribusiness Management and a Bachelors of Science in Development Communication major in Development Journalism from the University of the Philippines Los Banos.
MARISSA B. ESPINELI
Marise is currently IIRR’s Regional Center for Asia Director. She has over 30 years experience in development, having worked in organizational and program leadership, capacity development, monitoring and evaluation, training development and management, gender mainstreaming, fundraising and financial management in Asia, Africa and Latin America. An experienced trainer, Marise has been with IIRR’s training department for over 10 years in various capacities such as Head, Education and Training Program, Director for Education and Training Department, Assistant Director for Training, and Training Specialist. She was Deputy Director for the Regional Center for Asia from 2004 to 2006. Now as IIRR regional director, Marise provides leadership, technical and process-based inputs and resources to IIRR programs and systems that support program implementation. She led the establishment of IIRR’s country program in Cambodia.
As member of the Prolinnova International Support Team, Marise provides support to developing and implementing its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. She facilitated the M&E training for Prolinnova partners in 2010 in Ethiopia. Marise was also Director of the Aga Khan Foundation’s Programme for Professional Development. She led the setting of programmatic direction for a capacity development program for development professionals from the government and CSOs for sustainable development of the Central Highlands Region of Afghanistan. The program was in close coordination with the government of Bamyan and other international organizations.
Marise holds a Masters in International and Intercultural Management from the World Learning Institute in Vermont, USA and is currently completing a PhD in Applied Cosmic Anthropology from the Asian Social Institute, Manila.
JULIAN F. GONSALVES
Julian has thirty-five years of experience in the design, management and evaluation of international rural and agricultural research and development programs. He is currently a freelance consultant, reviewer, and evaluator for international and regional organizations (including IIRR) and donor agencies. His special areas of interest/competence are in: Program formulation/design, review and evaluation, external assessment, training design and evaluation; Sustainable resource use and management; Farmer-led extension; Community-based natural resources management/community forestry; Participatory development approaches; Designing integrated conservation development activities; Research partnerships; Strengthening institutional capacity and human resources development; Networking, advocacy and collaborative mechanisms for effective partnerships; and Approaches for scaling up impact of pilot program for research efforts.
Julian currently serves as Senior Advisor to the UPWARD CIP in the Philippines, and as a member of the Prolinnova Oversight Group. For eight years, he served as Vice President-Program for the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and another eight as Director for Appropriate Technology Unit. He was responsible for proposing and first field-testing and developing the participatory workshop process for documenting best practices, considered among the more innovative services that IIRR provides globally. He was also responsible for supervising the development, fund raising and management of a portfolio of projects in agriculture, health, capacity building and training and information, education and communications. He also was on the NGO Committee of the CGIAR for three years.
Julian has a Ph.D. in Extension Education and International Agricultural and Rural Development from Cornell University. Masters Degree in Communication (knowledge utilization program) from Michigan State University. Bachelors Degree in Agronomy, University of Agricultural Sciences (Bangalore). He was a Rockefeller Fellow from 1979-1984. Among his awards are: Recipient of the 1991 United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global 500 award for Environmental Achievement; 1991 Award Winner of the Crop Science Society of the Philippines, Achievement Award for Extension; Finalist, The Alvin C. Eurich Award for Excellence in Public Education and Communication to increase environmental awareness, Academy of Educational Development, Washington; and Recipient of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development 1997 Award, Germany.
