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3.1 Introduction
Chapter 3
THE TRAINING OF THE TRAINERS
The training of trainers (TOT) was designed to introduce selected Ministry of
Health personnel to experiential and performance-based training methods.
Purposes were twofold.
o To develop training skills of Ministry personnel.
o To make it possible for these personnel to function as bilingual (English
and Chichewa) Assistant Trainers for Health Education and Sanitation
Promotion Workshops to be held for field workers in the three reoions of
Malawi (Central, South, and North).
The TOT wa! held April 6-8, 1983 at Msamba Training Centre near Lilongwe.
3.2 Participants
Six District Health Inspectors and six Health Assistants with supervisory
responsibilities in rural piped water supply projects were selected by the
Principal Health Coordinator (Richard Ainsworth) and the Regional Health
Officers to attend the TOT and to serve as trainers for the workshops. Each of
the three regions was represented by two District Health Inspectors and two
supervising Health Assistants. This team of four would join Louise McCoy, the
WASH training consultant, and Richard Ainsworth, the Principal Health
Coordinator, to plan and give the workshop for field workers in their own
region. All but one had attended the national seminar in February providing a
background in the goals of the project and an introduction to experience-based
training methodology. For a list of participants in the TOT, see Appendix C.
Two participants representing the Northern Region were delayed by a plane
cancellation and missed the Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning sessions.
3.3 Planning and Preparation
TOT goals, methods, and agenda were developed by the consultant after the
initial orientation to the country and project. Materials were drawn from the
consultant's personal or WASH files, and two major works (Bower and Werner's
Helping Health workers Learn and the American Home Economics Association's
Working With Villagers) were hand-carried in sufficient quantity to provide a
copy for each co-trainer. (Copies of handouts are in the supplement to this
report which also contains the detailed training design.)
An easel was constructed for charts and suppliers of other materials
(newsprint, markers, etc.) were identified.
Responsibility for conducting the workshop was shared with coordinator
Ainsworth, partly for purposes of demonstrating co-training.
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