Sunday, July 3, 2011

Workshop on –‘ Local resource mobilization and Management’ & PMEL:

Concern Universal – Bangladesh organized a four days workshop on –‘Local resource mobilization and Management’ & PMEL. This was held in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India. Partner organizations from West Bengal and Assam send their 17 participants in that workshop. First 2 days , 13th and 14th June, 2011 were fixed for the trainings on - Local resource mobilization and Management. The training session was very compact and the subjects of discussions were very vast but participants were charged with the deliverable by the trainers. After the end of the trainings they got an idea on developing knowledge and skills for effective mobilization of human and other resources for enhancing Organizations capacity and also learnt its implementations.
There were many group discussions and group activities on finding gaps, making strategic planning etc. At the end of the session they submitted a draft action plan for resource Mobilization.
On15th June, there was a new session on – Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation Learning. This was new ideas to many of the participants. So , Masud bhai, trainer from CU-B discussed some preliminary concepts with them. There were discussions and brainstorming on issues like- development – its process and partners, assessing developments, participatory developments  and its type, participation in monitoring and evaluations, etc. On the last day, most of the issues was discussed and explained by another trainer, Sabrin Sultana from CU-B. She also conducted a session where the participants discussed their leanings and also clarified their doubts. Some times, Mr. Sufian also accompanied her. This session was ended on 16th June.  
In these four days, participants learnt a lot as well as many new ideas came out. There was some signings, dancing, and some drama. Though, these participants came from the different places of Bengal and Assam but they became a team. Both the trainers and trainees stayed in the same hotels so there were discussion after the session. Sometimes, the debate lasted up to mid night. …the learning became joyful learning !

Reported by:
Snehamay Mondal,
RLSK, Gosaba, WB, India

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