A TrainerÕs Manual for Community Managed Water Supplies in Kenya

Facilitator’s GuideThe facilitator can also use individual interviews to obtain additional details on skills gaps within theWUA.Individual Interviews for Skill Gap AnalysisThe facilitator may also need to refer to other documents that provide information on the community.This information may include a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) Report, Knowledge, Attitudes andPractices (KAP) report or other baseline studies regarding the situation in the target community.B. Setting Training ObjectivesThe training objectives represent what we want the participants to have achieved by the end of thetraining. As observed from the TNA above, the training objectives are based on the learning needsidentified and they also provide a basis for the design of the training program. In keeping with theprinciples of using a learning approach as opposed to a teaching approach, training objectives are writtenfrom the point of view of the participants and not the trainer.Training objectives include skills, knowledge and attitudes. For example, ―By the end of the training, theparticipants will each on their own be able to service a water pump‖.Step 1:Identify what the greatest capacity gap among participants is i.e. the core capacity need, which ifaddressed would contribute to other learning needs being addressed more easily. This gap, if turned intoan opportunity, becomes the overall objective of the training program.10