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Guiding Principles |
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Decentralized capacities
Institutionalization
Participatory methods
Resource material |
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A
centre for providing quality training services to
various stakeholders in strengthening participatory
learning processes by promoting and nurturing
decentralized institutional mechanisms |
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WASSAN came into
existence with concern for capacities both in the Government and
voluntary sector to facilitate and implement participatory
watershed development programmes. In Andhra Pradesh the programme
was scaled up within a short period through Government funds and
bilateral projects. In large scale development projects capacity
building needs of its stakeholders is an important factor to
grapple with.
Lack of such capacities at the required scale and absence of
institutional systems to use the existing capacities were major
bottlenecks in the state. Innovating on the participatory training
methods, developing resource material were other major issues.
Emphasis on the need and importance of training and proper release
of funds meant for trainings are critical policy issues.
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The
journey started with the concept of developing a Pool of
Resource Persons and traversed a long-way to the present
Cluster Level Livelihood Resource Centers (CLRCs). Several
participatory training tools and methods were developed to
address the need of different levels of stakeholders.
Capacity building needs were integrated into the Project
Management Cycle so as to cater to the project
requirements / action on the ground |
WASSAN chose the approach of building decentralized training
capacities and to innovate on the institutional systems of
delivery. The emphasis is on the following aspects.
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Creating
policy support for capacity building activities
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Creating
appropriate institutional arrangements for generating demand
for capacity building inputs and delivery
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Strengthening
the resource material, resource persons and resource
organizations
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Enabling
administrative procedures and systems
Allocation of funds
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