Project implementing agencies and some personnel of resource agencies often lack necessary skills of documenting and reporting their own achievements in the projects. Analyzing the situations, the processes of interventions made and the achievements/ outputs is difficult task for the project personnel. During the implementation of development projects various case studies and success stories generate that can not only reveal the processes of execution but also give rise to many learnings. But these case studies and success stories remain undocumented due to the lack of necessary skills at the part of organization. Residential training imparts skills of documenting the processes involved during the implementation of projects, preparing varied types of documents e.g. quarterly/six-monthly progress reports, annual report of organization, folder, photo book, etc. Training program will also impart skills of how to research for and write the case studies and success stories.

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How does one bring about change at grassroots level and in policy environment? The obvious answer is: ideally through non-violent mass-based movements, mobilized through an organization that ensures that collective wisdom is employed in goal setting, strategizing and sustaining the campaign. Advocacy, by its very definition, is done on the behalf of someone else. People-centred Advocacy is a value and process, and it seeks to build capacities of people, making them their own advocates. This residential training will focus on imparting the knowledge on the governance systems in natural resource sector, need to make the governance systems accountable at local level, need for policy change, the principles of people-centred advocacy, tools & methods of advocacy, media advocacy, policy advocacy, legislative advocacy, advocacy writing skills and networking & alliance building.

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In modern times of input-intensive agriculture and with its negative impacts widely visible, the quest of ecological agriculture added to numerous projects being operational. The managers/executives yet require knowledge and skills to practice or promote organic farming. This training is exceptional in the way that it would cover unconventional and new methods of doing organic farming along with full technical know-how. It will cover topics ranging from N-fixing crops to organic cultivation of fruit crops and market opportunities for organic products.

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