Orientation Training Held For Child Resource Team
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”- Henry Ford. The training on “Convergent action to strengthen community based Child Protection” which was organized and supported by UNICEF at Vimukti premises, Pothnal was conducted for 3 days from 19th June to 21st June 2015. Beneficiary of the training are Sakshrath Prerakas, 33 social workers (14 women) working in various NGOs from Manvi taluka.

Facilitation of Interventions:

Staff recruitment
In order to facilitate the interventions, personnel like Taluka coordinator, and Panchyath Animators were recruited and were oriented on the activities to be carried out.

Training design and Methodology
This training has been developed by experienced persons from Unicef Koppal and it is based on Child Rights and Child Care issues. Prior to the training, trainer Sr. Ducline Crasta consulted the Vimukti team to get a common accord on the contents. Through the process, the trainers used the interactive/participatory teaching approaches rather than lecture to stimulate the learning environment more participatory and active. This approach includes, small group and plenary discussions, pair work, stress lease exercises, energizer games etc.

Objective of the training

• To give comprehensive knowledge to the child Right resource team about child right issues and safe protection of the rights of the child and laws relating to children and alternative care for children.

• To establish, to educate and to implement the child rights both in District and Panchyath Level.

• To understand the learning of each NGO in the area of children’s learning needs

• To have better provision of services of alternative care for children.

• To give awareness to taluk level Government officials about child rights issues and its protection.

Baseline survey and scheduling of programmes:
After the orientation and training of the Staff, they were placed in the implementing area i.e., 36 Panchayaths of Manvi Taluk. To make the activities efficient and effective, each field the director asked the child resource team to make a baseline survey of the beneficiaries and their specific requirements. This helped to schedule the activities in time and to implement the envisaged activities without delay. vimukti encourages its partners to work on rights based approach, convergence strategy and in activating Government Pre Primary Child Care Centres (called as Anganwadis and Balwadis) and Government Schools. To the extent possible, community mobilization and demand creation from community side is activated. Advocacy, lobbying, child rights, elimination of child labour and enforcement of child friendly measures are part of the projects programming.

Orientation training held for child resource team:-
Following the successful implementation of the Strategic Planning Process at the Vimukti level, it first conducted a three-day orientation meeting for the child resource team at Taluka level. The three-day orientation was held at Vimukti premises, Pothnal, on 19th to 21st June 2015. The purpose of the meeting was to orient the participants about the Child Rights Issues, Child Rights Protection Committee (CRPC), Child Right Clubs, and Makkala Grama Sabha etc. in this training resource person helped the participates to formulate a road-map for this project for the next one year and an action plan for next 6 months. During the three-day orientation programme, additional relevant input sessions were conducted on soft skills such as communication, motivation, teamwork and improving self-confidence.

Participants:
There are 33 social workers (14 women) working in various NGOs from Manvi Taluka had attended this training, and benefitted from this training. Additionally, participants jointly opened to each other by providing and receiving comments and feedback constructively. In summary, they were very interested in the training and participated in the training activities actively. 2‐ Course Contents the training is focus on child rights and alternative care for children. After consulted with Vimukti, three day‐training contents were developed and delivered to address the need of participants: