By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director
Training and exchange of knowledge and information are important organizational capacity building tools.
Providing educational tools to the different sectors of Haitian society ,including youth, adults and professionals, represents a formidable task. It is also an important element in the Lambi Fund’s work with grassroots organizations. We often talk about the number of units of grains harvested and processed and not about the project specific skills and basic organizational management tools needed to be sustainable. Our workshops include: Project Management, organizational capacity building, farming techniques, rights and responsibilities in building democracy; equity parity and access. Workshops participants gain skills that go beyond project management and operations. They also offer the tools needed to think about the social context and share a vision of change as well as a plans of action charting the course for change and their community’s socio-economic transformation.
Realizing the cost incurred in such trainings, Lambi as a matter of policy is continuously creating opportunity for training trainers who become model instructing their peers. Recently the Lambi Fund has also encouraged and supported another strategy of mutual help ( called relay) by identifying organizations with the capacity to become the source of information and training to other grassroots organizations. The trainee can attend workshops offered in through one of the projects financed by the Lambi Fund or through another organization which partners with the Lambi Fund. These workshops are usually held when the project is about to start, Lambi wants to be sure that the organization has had the opportunity to acquire the right tools and techniques which will enable them to manage the project in ways that will ensure sustainability benefiting its members and the community.
2013 into 2014 was a successful year of skill transfer for our ruralpartners:
Type of training Number of days # of participants Objectives realized
Animal Husbandry/Goat breeding/ 10 327 Five organization began their herd with trained Vet tech, pharmacy developing their base for revenue and income to combat poverty in their community
Community Credit/financial management 18 210 7 organizations received specific instructions to manage credit for storing food, credit forwomen
Agroforestry 15 214 5 organizations trained in techniques of banana agroforestry including specific irrigation, ox-plowing
Environment Creating nurseries 30 90 7 community organizations benefited in getting nurseries set up for reforestation activities that involved their whole community and for one organization KOKAPEG their goal to replenish their colonial coffee stock planting 440,000 coffee trees and 45,000 ombrage trees for the coffee.
We are very pleased to be able to educate and train our partners for their own growth and sustainability. We thank you for your active participation.
By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director
By Sarah Leavitt | Outreach Manager
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