Training

Support to community-managed water supplies demands special skills from water sector staff at all levels. IRC and its partners offer a range of products in this field:

• Workshops targeted at senior level staff
• Courses that are being executed by IRC partners in the MANAGE project.
• Training of Trainers (ToT) targeted at training institutions working on rural water supplies at a country level. These sessions are momentarily suspended but shall be resumed in the future.
• Tailor-made solutions

IRC's training courses are based on participatory and adult learning methodologies. This means that participants are encouraged to play an active role in our training activities and share and build on their existing experiences. All our training activities take into account that:

• all participants possess valuable knowledge and experience;
• all participants have specific demands;
• the most valuable aspect of a training activity is the opportunity it provides to apply and integrate ‘what has been learned’ in the working situation;
• a participatory approach is more conducive to learning;
• a project is likely to be most successful if it integrates technical and social components and is gender sensitive.

IRC's participatory training methodology enables participants to refresh their knowledge and upgrade their skills in a stimulating atmosphere.
It includes discussions with fellow participants and resource persons, work on case studies, consultation of sector literature, field trips and work on individual assignments.

In this section, we also provide you with examples of our training programmes. Have a look to our report on community management training session that took place in Cameroon.

You can find detailed information concerning all training activities in the Training of Trainers Manual and on the IRC training pages.

Training of water committee in Kenya