Facilitation Skills (Three days)

Facilitation skills are vital for development professionals enabling him or her to access the tacit knowledge of a group, allowing them to creatively brainstorm ideas, analyze problems, rank and group complex forms of information, and make decisions. Development professionals who are directly involved in project implementation are engaged in facilitating Focus Group Interviews, Individual interviews, Group Discussions, Facilitating Session with community in their day to day work. Further effective facilitation skills of staff set the right direction of the project. Research shows that most of the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) invites outsiders to facilitate such kind of activities because of lack of capacity of staff of the CSOs. It is imperative for human and programme sustainability of CSOs that their implementation staff should be trained in facilitation skills to extract right information from stakeholders. This training is designed to equip CSOs staff of such skills so that they can facilitate these kinds of activities independently.

Objective

• Enhance understanding of the participants about facilitation and training skills

• Developing skills of participants about facilitation skills in training and research

• Develop skills of the participants about using different tools of facilitation in context of varied situations

Content

• Difference in Training and Facilitation

• Key facilitation skills in research and training

• Tips for Facilitating Focus Group Discussions

• Facilitating individual interviews

• Dealing with challenges in Facilitation Process

Learning outcome

• Comprehension of facilitation process

• Skill to facilitate any group

Who should attend?
Development professionals who are working as front line workers- Field Coordinators, Project Coordinators, Community Facilitators and Social immobilizers.

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