A Training-of-Trainers in Appreciative Planning & Action (APA)
Malcolm J. Odell
Habitat for Humanity
Nepal
2002, Aug
Annotation: Background and Rationale
Pact/Nepal, Education Curriculum and Training Associates (ECTA), Nepal Habitat for Humanity (NHFH), and other interested organizations in South Asia, like Catholic Relief Services/ Calcutta (CRS), share a common interest and prior training in the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process. All three organizations have, to varying degrees, implemented various AI-based programs in their own organizations and/or field programs. In Nepal Pact, ECTA, and NHFH have worked with me to develop and use an adaptation of the AI process that I initiated with The Mountain Institute in 1996 known as Appreciative Planning and Action (APA). They share an interest and commitment to strengthening their staff understanding of the AI process and the tools and techniques for using the appreciative approach for empowering their own institutions and local groups, organizations, and affiliated teams in the implementation of their applied field objectives. Together or separately they have articulated what they perceive to be broad institutional benefits from participating in an AI/APA Training of Trainers (TOT) program to share experiences and expertise, to deepen their understanding of the AI approach, and to gain new skills and techniques on ‘best practices’ that will help them empower their own staff and the grass-roots programs and institutions they work with to become sustainable and self-reliant, decreasing and/or eliminating their dependence on external resources. Out of those discussions have come this draft outline for an APA TOT program. A modified version of this workshop design outline was used in a workshop facilitated by Buddhi Tamang for Pact and Habitat for Humanity in August 2000.
Resource Files:
Workshop Design for a Train the Trainer (doc )
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