ABCD-Training-of-Trainers-Tools-July-2013

2.17. Final assignment
(Source: Coady International Institute)
Session Title
Session Objectives
Duration of Session
Resources
Training Materials
Final Assignment
Provide time for facilitators to plan how they are going to integrate what
they have learned into their work and life
This can be an overnight written assignment or it can be done orally in
groups (60 minutes)
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Handout of the Assignment (provided in the Training Materials Guide)
Introduction
If you are running an ABCD course for development practitioners or policy-makers, you may want to give
them a final assignment to help them think through how they are going to share what they have learned
with colleagues and integrate ABCD principles or tools into their work. This assignment can be discussed
in small groups, written down on paper, or presented orally.
Instructions: Example of a Final Assignment
The “Monday Morning Question” (When I get back to work on Monday morning, I am going to…)
During this course, we have emphasized that a community-driven, asset-based approach challenges the
way in which we (as external agents) work with communities to ensure that the process is truly
community driven. This approach is therefore more than some useful tools, more than a set of
principles, but an approach that may even challenge how we understand the world and how we act in it.
For this reason, the methods we have suggested are not a blue-print, but some suggestions for ways in
which genuine community-driven development can be stimulated. The application of this approach may
therefore take different forms, depending on the local context.
For this assignment, we would like you to prepare a presentation/written assignment/discussion group
on how you plan to apply some of the learnings from this certificate course. You may want to apply this
approach in a field setting, or to run a training course for an NGO, local government or donors.
Examples of Questions:
“When I get back to work on Monday morning………”
Now that you have been introduced to asset-based and citizen-led development, how would you apply
it? Would you apply it?
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