1.  Who will deliver training?
2.  What topics will the training cover?
3.  What are the expected outcomes of the training?
4.  What resources will be used for the training?

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1.  Who will deliver training?

The Environmental Champions will be responsible for delivering training to the women members of the ecoSHG on a quarterly basis for the first 3 years of the campaign. 

They will be trained and supported closely in the process by the campaign's technical experts and outside subject matter specialists from partner organisations.

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2.  What topics will the training cover?

The training program will stem from a community needs assessment . Even after the assessment is complete, the local community will be encouraged to share their knowledge and ideas regularly with the campaign to build training resources. They will also be encouraged to attend training sessions relevant to their own activities (e.g. water management)

Training topics are likely to include:

• Functional literacy: linking education with development in the rural context: how to apply literacy and numeracy skills to daily life
• Environmental literacy: exploring the beneficiaries’ relation to natural resources (including concept of ecological footprint); planning for planting and maintain trees as a learning test
• Environmental action: developing guidelines for becoming role models as consumers and producers in relation to the environment. (e.g. integrated water and land management, solid waste management)
• Agroforestry theory and practices: learning how to develop synergistic agroforestry models on their land (intercropping, using multi-purpose trees species for fodder, fuel, food.) Note: agroforestry could be used as a springboard for exploring side-activities to growing trees before the trees start yielding fruits.
• Post-harvest skills:  Learning how to harvest, store, transport and process tree produce
• Consumer and entrepreneur literacy for area-specific marketplaces: learning about tree-based product and market development, teaching of basic entrepreneurial and management skills to link tree produce to local markets.
• Introduction to BioFuel and small-scale BioFuel production: perhaps as path to employment with local campaign partners or to micro-entrepreneurship opportunity with panchayats support
• Research and information collection to guarantee future knowledge dissemination to other similar communities around the world

Training will be environment and gender-sensitive in terms of design and processes. All resources and products used for the training are eco-friendly and designed jointly by the community members and qualified illustrators with a strong interest in protecting the environment.

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3.  What are the expected outcomes of the training?

The training will help the women take charge in improving their own lives, regenerating the local environment, and  creating a better future for their children and community.

At first, training will develop technical skills and enable access to capital that the women need to make their idle land more productive. Over time, it will also improve their relationship with the immediate surroundings in the form of better natural resource use habits. At the end of the training program, women will be equipped with the skills and confidence to set up micro-enterprises wherever they sense an opportunity.

An overarching aim of the campaign is to promote self-sufficiency at the local level. The training component of the campaign will ultimately create a platform for enabling new sustainable livelihood options to be designed, discussed, tested, and adopted in the future.

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4.  What resources will be used for the training?

The campaign beneficiaries are semi-literate or illiterate women who are often very talented at expressing themselves orally, yet need a format in which to record their new skills and stages of the training.

Therefore, the primary resource that will be used as a tool to train women groups will be a visual workbook. It will be made exclusively of pictures and symbols that both trainers and trainees can manipulate as a communication tool to learn new skills. At the same time, it will be used as a mandatory logbook for recording growth of the trees.

The concept of developing such a training tool that can be passed on from one generation to the next, stemmed out of conversations with one of our patrons, Iris von Brandstatter.  Iris has held art workshops on street corners and slums in Nepal and India, and trekked to remote schools in the Himalayas to test her charity-art-education project.

This creative and non-threatening approach to learning is a perfect vehicle for mobilising the target group.

 

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