Capacity Building: Training of Trainers for Handicrafts Production by Women NGOs in Yemen

Description

The Social Fund for Development (SFD) is a major tool being used by the government of Yemen to alleviate poverty. It was established in 1997, in the wake of a period of macroeconomic difficulties, to provide support for long-term development opportunities for the poor, and to encourage innovative and participatory approaches to delivering demand-driven social services.

The SFDís objectives include mobilizing communities to help themselves; building the capacity of communities, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and local governments to take key roles in local development; and supporting income-generating and microenterprise activities.

The SFDís approach to poverty reduction relies on […]

Capacity building to assist NGOs, local communities, and the private sector in identifying, implementing, and operating SFD projects. Capacity building helps local associations and groups develop and execute projects; enhances the ability to execute sustainable microenterprise program; and provides technical assistance to small contractors and consulting firms on engineering and construction standards, bids, and small works projects. It also provides for nationwide poverty monitoring.

Within the Yemen SFD Capacity Building Component during the first phase of the SFD operation,

priority was given to training of trainers, refinement of training methods, development of training modules, and the implementation of a select number of well-defined capacity building projects. In addition, organizational support was provided to increase the capacities of intermediary structures. NGOs were assisted through training and/or material support, and received training in a range of subjects (e.g., literacy programs, handicraft production, home economics, and basic accounting for agricultural cooperatives).

It is within the framework that NSCE conducted a Training of Trainers for Handicrafts Production by Women NGOs in Yemen. This project aimed at enabling managers, trainers and trainees of the NGO Marketing Center that consists of 9 women NGOs and other non-partners NGOs to develop high quality products for the tourist market and to acquire skills in financial management to increase the income of women producers and reduce poverty.

The training program was built on Training of trainers and participatory approaches in the areas of Financial Management, Marketing and Production Management. It aimed at providing NGOs Management with the necessary skills to control and manages available financial resources in their organizations, with the purpose of carrying out successful activities that could ultimately benefit the members of these NGOs as well as helping to increase the sales of their handicraft products. Our main approach was to work on the appropriate strategies for the 9 NGOs in Sana’a to ensure the sustainability and viability of the training.

Services

• Analysis of the training needs assessment
• Designing training activities
• Preparation of training manuals
• Impact Evaluation and preparing final reports