Training

A wide variety of training programs are conducted by WOTR that include design and implementation of demand-based training modules in watershed-based natural resource management, community mobilisation, application of IT to project management, entrepreneurship development, etc. This is undertaken at its training centre at Darewadi, Ahmednagar district, as also at various watershed and client locations across the country.

A part of this is the development of processes, instruments and mechanisms that help individuals and organisations to capture, archive and process data and information in a manner that promotes and facilitates learning, insight, adaptation and behaviour change. This in turn results in increasing efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability and makes the organisation into a learning and knowledge entity.

WOTR conducts training programs and workshops for decision-makers, implementers (government agencies, bankers, NGOs, funding agencies etc) and interested organisations in the field of watershed development, self help promotion and related topics. Following are some of the modules covered under such trainings:

Since 2002, with the support of the GTZ, the SDC and various other donor institutions, WOTR has conducted over 60 residential training programs thereby developing capacities of implementing and donor agencies. Representatives from NGOs, government, forest departments, corporate and other institutions have participated in the above training programs. WOTR regularly hosts large numbers of visitors from all over the country who come on exposure visits wishing to learn from our efforts.

The participants come from different backgrounds and different levels of experience. Yet there is a common interest in understanding the WOTR model of participatory development, natural resource management and promotion of women’s development. In addition to the above, WOTR also develops training programs, on demand, tailored to the specific requirements of the client.

INTERNATIONAL

Since 1993, Exposure and Dialogue Programmes have been offered for individuals and institutions, both in India and abroad. The exposure aims to give individuals an opportunity for first-hand experience of watershed development at work as well as to savour the flavour of life in a rural environment. These exposures-cum training programmes offer the participants a live-in experience of village life in the rural areas of Maharashtra thus providing an understanding about the ground realities.

Participants from Azabaijan, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somaliland, Srilanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and Australia have attended these programmes.

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Darewadi Training Centre

Located in a once remote, drought prone village in the rain-shadow region of western Maharashtra, Darewadi is now a fully and successfully treated watershed. It is 80 kms away from Ahmednagar. The Watershed Training Centre located here, endeavours to give the participants first-hand experience of the field and its people, thus fostering understanding and learning of the various aspects of watershed development. Read more...

For more information on our training services, please write to us t trainings@wotr.org.