Participatory development Approach

Training Course
Participatory development Approach

(Experiences and Best practices to promote community changing in Cambodia)

Date: September 15-16 (Sat-Sun), 2012                 Venue: Eden Park

Time: 8:00am-17:00pm                                          Language: Khmer

Participatory Development Approach is a foundation development and very important for people who work for community development to build competency to be a person who work effective in field of development. Participatory Development Approach will guide detail method and practice include best experiences and its success factors, which will help trainees be aware of and can apply effectiveness in establishing a community to be sustainable development.

To enable effective facilitation and be responsive to the development needs of the community, the trainees will learn more about deeply concept of development, the phase in-phase out scheme community organizing process, participatory development approach, principle to work with community, and how to compile and organize group include Self Help Group(SHG)/community based organization principles(CBO).

There could be changes in the technology that would require them to acquire new knowledge and skill to cope with the changes. The training will conceive in response to the need of helping the trainees.

Overall Objective
Participatory Development Approach (PDA) training workshop is to bring good lesson-learnt and best practices for successful knowledge, experiences, skills and abilities in rural development including group (SHG) formation in Cambodia to all community workers by adding in their gaps in operating their development at grass root level.

Expected Outcome
By the end of this two-day training, the participants will be able to:

• Deeply understand of development concept which can be adapted into practices;
• Adapt practical skills and techniques in development in various fields in which promote participatory approaches;
• Identity key areas to build, improve and develop community organization effectively;
• Be competent to select approach for development at grass root level; and
• Be confident in working with community and become active facilitation in development.

Course Outlines

Chapter I:   Overview of development	Chapter II:   Participatory Development Approach (PDA)
Defining Development Community Community Development Sustainable Development Concept of development Development Approaches through the Decades (1950s-1990s) Cambodia Millennium Development Goal (CMDG) Community Organization Process and its Phase-in-Phase-out Scheme Key elements of sustainable community development Community Development Reflection	What PDA? Why PDA? How PDA? Level of community participation Causes of poor community participant
Chapter III:   Principles & Tip to work with the community	Chapter IV:   Best practices for SHGs development
Basic and Key Principles Tips: 1.  Guidelines and roles of community workers 2.  Quality of community workers 3.  Good facilitation	SHG Overview Identify group in community, organized by NGO & Gov’t Group - model approach recognition registration … Group organizational development Best experiences to develop Self Help Group in rural development. 1. Why form Self Help Group? 2. What is Self Help Group? 3. What is the objective of developing SHG?  4. How to start SHG?          5. Exercise guideline document          6. Exercise community financial               management system. Minimum standard/criteria include level for functional group

Who is the trainer?
Mr. Prum Siyen is a rural/community development specialist. He owned extensive working experiences in the fields of community organizing and community development since 2003. He has experienced working in this field with many local and international NGOs and the joint collaboration with government agents. He possesses over nine-year experiences in building competency to community workers to form and strengthen the community based organization leaders to meet their requirements. He involved in strategic development for functioning CBO establishment, set up a series of capacity needs for healthy CBOs and strategies to sustain the community-based organization for further operations.

Currently, he is a senior project officer for LLEE, responsible for building capacity to community and development partners to develop effective strategies for sustainable development in the community and in the organizations. He also holds a Master Degree of Integrated Management of Agricultural and Rural Development, Certificate for higher education teacher from National Institute of Education (NIE). With his qualification and extensive experiences, he was invited to do presentation in many international training seminars.

Who should attend the course?

• Community development worker, community organizer, community development facilitator and transformational development facilitator and
• Community development officer.
• Field staff, field officer and
• Field Coordinator
• Project Coordinator and Project/program manager and
• All people wish to work for community or rural development includes Gov't staff, private sector and students want to get community experiences.

What will the training course be included?

• Lunch and four times of refreshment (buffet)
• Training packs and group photos of participants
• Certificate Awarded By: ODCC

Training Fee: $69

• First 10 registrations receive 5% discount of total fee per course.
• Group registration of three or four persons at a time of the same course receives 5% discount of total fee per course.
• Group registration of five persons or more at a time of the same course receive 10% discount of total fee per course.

Registration:

Tel          : 066 53 30 23 / 012 267 126

Email      : info@odcc.asia

Website  : www.odcc.asia

Office      : #4G, St. 271, Sangkat Boeug Tumpun, Khan Mean Chey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

Closing Date: September 14, 2012
Please hurry up as SEATS ARE LIMITED!