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Training
Summary
The five day training was conducted on July 20 ~ 24
of 2003 at the Villa Ocean Hotel in Wadduwa of Sri Lanka.
An outline of this training program was designed by
me and emailed to MDPI before I left California on July 13th. Mr.
Rahubadda, Mr. Dayarathne and Dr. Gamage did excellent work in bringing
three local speakers to enrich the program. After I arrived in Colombo
of Sri Lanka, I wrote a list of suggested talking points and had it
delivered to each of our three local speakers. As a result, this
strategy helped and all their talks served well to characterize the
current Sri Lanka situation of policymaking and to summarize policy’s
impacts on the poor and other vulnerable groups in Sri Lanka.
During the training, I focused my effort to deliver
my lectures that cover the concepts, methods, approaches, systems and
applications of social assessment. Dr. Gamage helped to explain many of
the concepts and methods in a Sri Lanka way. The 31 trainees were broken
into three groups for a few times when they conducted brainstorming on a
few cases and on a few suggested tasks like to design a social
assessment study and to recommend on how to institutionalize social
assessment. After each group session, I made comments on their work that
often leaded to more discussion. Based on the feedback we received,
these brainstorming and discussion sessions were among the most
effective in helping our trainees to understand social assessment.
In general, the training was very successful. Even
in the last day, the trainees were still very actively engaged as
witnessed by Dr. Asoka Kasturiarachchi, the Assistant Resident
Representative of UNDP in Sri Lanka. But, the training program was set
up in a hurry. If I have more communication with Dr. Gamage and Mr.
Dayathne before the mission, the training program could be better.
For a detail description of the training, the
following pages contain information on the training program, name list of the trainees,
outlines of my delivered lectures, case studies used for the training,
and trainees’ feedback.
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