CAPACITY  BUILDING

Since its emergence VERC emphasized on people’s participatory development, sustainable human development and capacity building of the development actors as facilitators and to institutionalize the lessons learnt from the development process that has been clearly enumerated in VERC’s Mission statement and Strategy. In accordance with that the Training Program of VERC has been addressing its mission and strategy.

Training Section set the goal to enhance human potential, change the attitude and develop commitment of development actors to enable them to contribute in the development sectors. Accordingly, transfer the skill and knowledge, enhance the human and institutional/ organizational capacity the Section undertook series of capacity building activities since its inception.

The organization VERC is one of the pioneering institutions in social development in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Strengthening of Local Government is the key strategy for sustainable area development involving local government and community. The Section has not only developed the capacity of the VERC program staff, it also played a key role in capacitating relevant government staff, LGI representatives and other NGO staff in order to contribute in the development sectors, particularly in the fields of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation; Governance; Gender and Equity; Human Rights; Environment; Disaster Preparedness and Management; Community Management Aspects; Education; Advocacy and Process Promotion; Micro Finance and Small & Medium Entrepreneurship Development. During 2009 - 2010 the Section has imparted training to 98,532 participants.

The major aspects of Training:

1. Provide need based appropriate support to VERC projects.
2. Provide need based training on contractual basis to other client organizations and individuals
3. Strengthening local Govt. for Sustainable Development through local NGO collaboration
4. Capacity Building of Local NGOs in Bangladesh
5. Disaster Preparedness and Management

The training and communication section provides training support in developing its own staff also conducting contractual training for others development actors as well. During this period the section also conducted a study on ‘Measuring the Minimum Conditions (MMCs) of Union Parishads in Narsingdi district’ under the project of “Performance Assessment of 155 Union Parishads in Six LIC (Learning Innovation Component) Districts, which is narrated in the later part of project-details.