Report Writing Skills. 7th-9th November, 2007
From 7th – 9th November 2007, a training course on Report Writing Skills was organized in Quang Ngai. This course is under the scope of the Quang Ngai Rural Development Program (RUDEP) which is jointly funded by the Australian Government through Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and the Vietnamese Government through Quang Ngai Provincial People Committee from 2001 to 2011. Twenty staff from different governmental agencies at the provincial and district levels attended the course. The participants had different levels of writing capacity and ability. Some of them had never used a computer or written a report before the training. After the course, all participants assessed that their report writing skills had improved following the course. Participants said that the report formats provided by the trainer team would help them a lot in structuring their reports in the future. Download course report in English.
Project Management. 9th – 14th October, 2007
A training course on Project Management was conducted by RTCCD from 9th – 14th October for 32 participants from Provincial and District Women’s Unions of Cao Bang. The course is a collaboration between RTCCD and GTV Italia within the framework of the project entitled “Strengthening human resources for Cao Bang Women’s Union”. Download course report in Vietnamese.
Training of Trainers. 17th September – 12th October, 2007
Under the collaboration with GTZ, RTCCD conducted a Training of Trainers course in four weeks (from 17th September to 12th October 2007) for 20 health staff coming from Cao Bang and Son La provinces. The TOT focuses on reproductive health and health insurance which are the focal topics of the GTZ project “Improving health services and reproductive health in Cao Bang and Son La”. The participants expressed their feeling after attending the 4-week training at RTCCD as below.
· The course is very useful for us. Our capacity improvement in training will benefit not only for the GTZ project but also for other training courses in the province.
· Eighteen brothers and sisters of us have grown up a lot during this course in training skills. Definitely we will be more confident in training performance in the future.
· The course gave us opportunities to learn and share not only professional knowledge and skills but also life skills and experiences.
· We have attended many courses before but this course made us feel cozy. The Centre is very considerate to us, we feel like being home from the first day arrival to the last day. The trainers took care of us from studying to life, taking us to sight seeing, shopping, giving us chances to taste Asian-European cuisins those I am sure that not many colleagues here have experienced.
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Community Development Project Management. 23rd – 25th July, 2007
The training course Community Development Project Management was successfully held from 23rd – 25th July, 2007. This was a public course, having the participation of staff from Marie Stopes International Vietnam, Quang Tri Rural Development Program, GVC Italia, Dong Hoi district community project. The course had been successfully organized and received many positive feedbacks from participants.
Training course on Six Common Mental Health Disorders. 26th March – 8th April, 2007
Community health workers in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa were trained by Dr. La Thi Buoi on how to recognize and address six common mental health disorders: depression, anxiety, alcohol Abuse, sleep problems, chronic tiredness and unexplained somatic complaints. The training aimed to provide health care providers with improved knowledge and skills to optimally screen patients and support them in overcoming mental health disorders while remaining within their communities and with their own families.
Applied Statistics in Community Development Projects, 1st – 5th March, 2007
Following the first course on “Applied Statistics in Community Development Projects”, held from 31st January to 4th February 2007 by RTCCD for internal organization staff and its local partners, a second session was held on 1st - 5th March 2007 for 12 participants - 6 project staff from Oxfam Solidarity Belgium’s local counterparts in Ha Tinh and Hoa Binh, 3 project officers of the Cuu Long Delta Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, 1 from Hue Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, 1 from PATH US, one from Save the Children US and one observer from the World Health Organization. Participants were given information on basic statistics concepts and the linkages with community development projects; types of common statistics in community development, statistical analysis process, types of statistics software (e.g. Excel, Epi Info, SPSS, STATA, SAS, R); descriptive analysis, analytical analysis and multi-variate analysis; and how to read and interpret a report with statistical figures. The trainees spent 60% of the course time on practical exercises. At the end, all participants commented that their objectives were fully achieved. Download course report in English.
Research Methods Used in Community Development Projects, 11th – 17th December, 2006
At the request of the Oxfam Solidarity Belgium, RTCCD designed a 7-day training course on research methods used in community development projects. There were 17 participants including 7 project officers and program managers from the Oxfam Family in Vietnam (Oxfam Solidarity Belgium, Oxfam UK, Oxfam Quebec, Oxfam Hong Kong), 8 from Oxfam Family local counterparts in Ha Tinh and Hoa Binh, and 2 from the International Organization of Migration (IOM).
When asked “What changes in attitude are you going to apply when returning to your own working environment following the course?”, we received positive feedback from the participants. Some are quoted below:
· I will be more serious in conducting research or providing consultancy for my staff
· I can discuss with partners and consultants about their proposals
· Working in development is a process of active learning
· Research always is needed in our intervention projects
· I feel more confident in the project work
· Ethics in research – that is what I will keep in mind when implementing a community development project
· I will be more careful with my conclusions and recommendations. PRA should be supplemented by good quantitative surveys before recommendations are given
· Project impact evaluation design should consider the use of control groups
· Doing community development work needs our hearts, not only skills
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Research protocol design. 11th – 18th July 2006
Training on research protocol design for a longitudinal study on primary school children's learning outcomes in Lao PDR was conducted by a senior staff member of RTCCD in July 2006. Learners came from SC Norway in Laos, the National Research Institute of Education Strategy Laos and Luang Prabang Education Office. It is expected by Lao partners that RTCCD will become a long-term technical advisor to their longitudinal research.
Training data collectors for a needs assessment. August & September 2006
“Assessing and Modeling Community Mental Health and Rehabilitation in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa Provinces” commenced in August and September 2006. Twenty-seven local health workers from the Department of Health, district health center and commune health stations attended the course in Da Nang, and 30 attended in Khanh Hoa. Close supportive supervision was given during the survey to ensure quality control. It is expected that capacity of the health sector in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa will be increased in terms of survey implementation and data management.
Data entry and management. 12th – 16th September 2006
Training on Data entry and Management was conducted in Khanh Hoa over two days to more than ten staff from the Department of Health, Da Nang and Khanh Hoa. The DoH of two provinces wanted to increase their staff capacity to conduct surveys and feed information into local planning strategies. Participants were given basic knowledge and skills to enter data, perform trouble-shooting and make technical corrections to electronic files.
Community Health Research Methodology. 21st - 25th March, 2005
The course was designed for PLAN Vietnam, aiming to improve capacity of PLAN Vietnam managerial staff in community-health project management and evaluation, towards developing evidence-based health policy and poverty advocacy. 13 project officers and coordinators from all PLAN health projects in Vietnam actively participated in the intensive course from 21st – 25th March.
They were provided with training on concepts of community health research and evaluation, how to develop a research question, prioritize research topics, how to develop a research framework, criteria for research evaluation, bias in research, sampling, sample size and calculation, research methodology, survey implementation, data management and ethics in research. All participants commented that following the course, they were equipped with very useful knowledge for their daily work and they were aware of how to collect rigorous data to encourage policy-makers to act on evidence.
Managing the Development Project. 9th – 10th April, 2005
The course was carried out from 9th – 10th April for 25 managerial and senior staff at Le Hong Phong Communist Party School. The course focused on concepts of community development, project management, the role of the project manager, linkages with donor and end-users, identification of innovative ideas for projects, needs assessments, LFA, SWOT, project planning and fiscal financial management, supervision, monitoring and building flexible decision-making mechanisms for project adjustment and management. The course was so successful that participants suggested RTCCD should deliver the course ‘writing a project proposal’ to them the following month.
Writing a Project Proposal. May and November 2005
Two Writing a Project Proposal courses were held. Course 1 was held from 28th – 29th May for 20 staff from the Le Hong Phong Communist Party School. Course 2 was held from 30th November to 1st December, directed at researchers, project/program officers and coordinators. The 15 participants came from non-government organizations and from the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association from provinces nation-wide. Course sessions provided training on identification of problems and formulation of innovative ideas for proposal writing, principles and steps in writing a proposal, basic information for each section of a proposal, how to write a policy-oriented proposal, the search for potential donors, writing letters to donors and delegations for proposal improvement.
Monitoring and Supervision in Community Development Projects. 7th – 10th July, 2005
Invited by the National Dermatology Hospital Quy Hoa and funded by the Netherlands Association of Leprosy Relief, RTCCD provided a course for 32 participants from hospitals and centers for leprosy control from eleven provinces in the Central region of Vietnam, from 7-10July. Participants were given training on basic concepts of M&E, the project cycle, skills for performing productive supervision activities (identifying problems/successes, feedback, report and follow-up), establishing monitoring systems with measurable indices and analytical methods, transformation of monitoring results into project planning and revision of decision-making. Practical examples from the Leprosy Control Program in Vietnam were used for illustration. The course also focused on making clear distinctions between Monitoring and Supervision and Evaluation, how to perform data management with data collected from the monitoring system and how to present results in summarized templates.
Community Development - Basic Concepts. 23rd - 24th July, 2005
Directed at project coordinators, project officers and partners of CIDSE/CDC organization, this course was designed to improve their capacity in implementation and management of community development projects. 16 participants were trained from 23rd - 24th July in concepts and principles of community development and how to manage projects in order to appropriately and effectively respond to local people’s needs, using information from and analysis of their own projects. Much more than the provision of basic concepts, the training course assisted participants to gain a deeper understanding of their own projects and provided them with improved understanding and skills to manage it.
Writing a Project Proposal. 28th – 29th May & 30th Nov – 1st December, 2005
Two courses were provided. Course 1 was held from 28-29 May for 20 staff from the Le Hong Phong Communist Party School. Course 2 was held from 30 November to 01 December, directed at researchers, project/program officers and coordinators. 15 participants came from non-government organizations and organization members of Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association in provinces nation-wide. Course sessions provided training on identification of problems and formulation of innovative ideas for proposal writing, principles and steps in writing a proposal, basic information for each section of a proposal, how to write a policy-oriented proposal, the search for potential donors, writing letters to donors and delegations for proposal improvement.