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LEARNING AND NETWORKING
PELUM aims to enhance the culture and rate of
learning and sharing in Country Working Groups by increasing access to
different knowledge and technology sites. We achieve our goal through
organising and running short and long-term training, sharing the learning,
and monitoring the impact of training on men and women in local communities
and facilitating exchange and learning visits. Training is achieved through
identification of learning needs, course design and implementation, course
organisation and coordination, crystallizing learning experiences about
PELUM, building capacities of country working groups to carry out effective
training, developing ways of measuring development, documenting success
stories and assisting members to gain access to good science in research
institutes.
Also by creating partnerships between farmers,
scientists and development workers to address farmers� priorities in
research, establish linkages between Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) and
conventional science. PELUM also builds member organisation�s capacity in
participatory research and technology development. Learning and networking
is also advanced through facilitating exchange visits and improving ways of
scaling up and out of best practices. A number of regional and sub-regional sharing
workshops have been conducted in the past. Several workshops have been conducted at
national and
sub-regional levels. Tailor- made training has been conducted in mainstreaming sustainable agriculture, gender and rural development,
campaign, advocacy and lobbying and seed security, knowledge management and
information and communications technologies (ICTs). Others are,
participatory monitoring and evaluation, participatory training
methodologies, article writing skills, fundraising for NGOs and urban
agriculture.
The long-term goal of our training is to build
the capacity of our members to promote participatory land-use management (pelum)
according to country needs. Many of the people we have trained have gone
back and trained others, increasing the extent of reach.
In terms of long-term training and
distribution of materials, the Zimbabwe CWG was assisted to establish set up
a regional pilot �college without walls�. In May 1998, the college started
offering training in community development, crop and animal production,
natural resources management, and organisational management. It is offering
two-year part-time training to development workers. We plan to foster
efforts to establish new colleges in future.
PELUM networks with the
following organisations:
1.
International Forum for
Organic Agriculture Movement, IFOAM
PELUM Association is currently a focal point
for IFOAM in the region.
2.
Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, CTA
PELUM Association has rekindled the
relationship with CTA and it is hoped that through this partnership,
knowledge sharing will be enhanced .
Training Workshop Reports
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