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Facilitating ‘Hands-on’ Training Workshops for Community Led Total Sanitation – A Trainers’ Training Guide
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PART 2: TRAINING METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS AND PROCESS 4) Planning and Preparation for Training 4.1 Sponsoring organisations It may be efficient for one organisation to take the lead. At the same time, it is a good idea to encourage a consortium of likeminded organisations to sponsor training, and to send participants. This helps to create a spirit of collaboration and mutual support and so multiplies the impact of the training. It can provide the basis for later networking and functional linkages, for example through trainers working together and through interchange of natural leaders who emerge at the community level.
4.2 Timing of workshop and activities Plan workshops at times convenient for communities. Avoid critical peak periods like sowing, weeding and harvesting, and lean seasons. Arrange triggering for days and times of the day that will be convenient for communities. Avoid market days and festivals.
4.3 Selection of participants This guide refers to the training of CLTS facilitators and trainers. In training trainers there are usually fewer participants than in training facilitators. The following points may be kept in mind. Try to ensure that: n a good proportion are young and energetic; n some or most have Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) experience;
n there is a good gender balance; n most participants can speak the local language in the communities; n in training of trainers, those who are trainers by profession should be open to experiential learning and not fixated on classroom teaching; n in training of trainers, there are no more than 20-25 participants (except in special cases where a good number (3 or 4) of trained and experienced facilitators are available to work with the lead trainer). If institutionalisation of the approach needs highlevel support, one or two senior officers from the policy, advocacy or human resource departments of the trainees’ organisations should take part. Similarly, technical managers of line departments of engineering, health, community development, education, rural development etc, could be involved in the training experience in order to develop a