Capacity building
For the purposes of this project capacity building is defined as Strengthening the institutional and organisational capacity of organisations and community groups through human resource development, improved infrastructure and economic systems.
CDD involves communities and service providers in identifying their needs, planning and implementing development initiatives, and operating and maintaining created or existing assets.
The training program strives to facilitate working relationships between development actors and improve their skills and technical capacities.
Exact curricula and training materials to be used will be developed under the guidance of the Community Driven Development Co-ordinator.
Capacity building for communities
Training in participatory community-driven development processes and practices underlies the implementation of the CDD component.
Its major objective is to enable local pastoralist communities and groups in the districts to identify, plan, implement, procure and handle funding from several donors, and manage sustainable micro projects which address their priority needs.
The following are some of the trainings to be conducted for the communities:
Communities/management committees will benefit from a substantial training program designed to increase their capacity to identify appropriate community priority projects,
They will be trained on identification and targeting of benefits especially to the vulnerable and marginalized groups,
Trained on accounting for the funding received to the project and to all members of the community.
The training program includes extensive, differentiated PRA for all communities, which will be updated throughout project implementation.
The management committees and selected additional community members to be trained on leadership skills and report writing, procurement and financial management, resource mobilisation, participatory monitoring and evaluation,
Organise exchange visits to other communities undertaking similar projects.
Finance technical training to sub-groups of communities who are implementing a particular CDD project, which requires upgraded technical skills, as well as awareness raising of important crosscutting development themes, including the environment, gender and HIV/AIDS.
They will receive training in NRM approaches.
Capacity building for backstopping services
Representatives of ALRMP II stakeholders will be trained in participatory processes.
These stakeholders include ALRMP II staff at all levels, as well as a number of district-level sectoral officers involved in ALRMP II in the CDD districts, together with some key partner agency personnel and local community leaders.
Participatory methods of community development will be specially designed and adapted for use with Pastoralists to specifically capture socially excluded groups.
The communities will receive support and backstopping from the district level Project staff and from METS. The trainings will include the following:
Project and MET teams, including staff from partner agencies, will be trained to support community development processes and advise on technically, financially, environmentally and socially sound project design.
The backstopping service providers will receive additional training in differentiated PRAs to improve the inclusiveness of the PRA process and highlight needs and aspirations of particular groups within the community (youth, the elderly, women, disable, marginalized etc).
Update training sessions to facilitate the exchange of experiences amongst project staff and to adopt processes to the particular needs highlighted by earlier PRAs.
CDPOs and METs will also be trained in crosscutting issues and technical skills to assist communities in improving project design, as well as in the implementation of the Environmental Management Framework as it relates to the screening and assessment of CDD micro projects.
Additional training will include participatory M&E, as well as in procurement and financial management to provide support to the community procurement process.
Basic financial analysis tools will be developed to allow METs to work with communities in identifying and selecting appropriate IGAs.
The Project will also support study tours to enable the exchange of experiences and lessons among support staff.
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