Recasting Citizenship for Development - File UPI

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Table 15.3
Key Capacity Building Areas for Field Workers and Motivators
Training Subject
1. Self-development Knowledge of different development programmes
Government schemes and related laws
Organising/re-organising women’s group
Understanding women’s issues
Ways of raising issues at different levels of administration
2. Skills Communication
Conflict resolution within the groups
Micro-planning
Information dissemination
Documentation
3. Group management Understanding group
Stages of a group formation
Facilitation capabilities
4. Leadership Roles and responsibilities of leadership
development Leadership capabilities and skills of a facilitator
5. Management of local Village ecosystem planning
resources
6. Pre-Election Voter Pre-election awareness issues
Awareness Campaign Awareness methods
Awareness stages
Documentation
7. International Women’s To raise various issues concerning women
Day Information about women rights and laws
Presentations of good efforts by SHGs
8. Panchayati Raj Roles and responsibilities of panchayat representatives
How the local Sangathan can be linked with panchayat
Roles of motivators/field workers in strengthening local
self-governance
9. Computer training Practical knowledge of computers
Computer literacy
Typing work on computer
important information, and take up issues at the block and district levels.
Their primary role is to enhance the leadership qualities of women, and
raise awareness on a number of social and economic issues. They also help
group members in the functioning of SHGs such as enhancing awareness
of rules and regulations, savings and credit and process of inter-loaning.
Their presence has helped the SHGs to get right information on the documents
required to seek approval from the higher echelons of the government.
The SHGs have also learnt about methods of documentation such
as writing the minutes of the gram sabha, and planning and costing of
public works.