A launching workshop kicked off
A
one day workshop has been held at amaro Kele to officially announce the
start of a project on tsetse/trypanosomiasis control and farmers
empowerment. The project agreement is signed between Agri Service
Ethiopia that has intervened in the area since long and an
international intergovernmental scientific organization called
International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE).
ICIPE
established to carry out strategic and applied research to improve
humans, animal, plant and environment health, income generation,
innovative technology development and transfer, capacity building and
sustainable development in the tropics with emphasis in Africa in
general and conducting integrated community based
tsetse/trypanosomiasis monitoring/control and capacity building
activities to target communities particularly in Ethiopia .
The
objective of the workshop focuses on how to create synergy among
different stake holders in order to create sustainable trip in
Tryponomiosis control.
Representatives
of the workshop were from four adjacent woredas that involve government
and agropastoralist partners. ICIPE scientists SNNPR Bureau of
Agriculture and Rural Development, livestock research director, STEP
representative and Oromia Regional Bureau representative attended the
workshop.
Training of Trainer (ToT) course held at Amaro Program Office
A two days (Novemember 16 -17, 2007) ToT course was organized by ASE
Amaro Program Office for development facilitators and project officer
on "Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) and guideline, polices and
strategies to establish Community Based Institutions (CBI).
The main objectives of the training was
1. To familiarize principles, concept and practical application of PLA
2. To introduce participants steps and procedures requried for the establishment of CBI at woreda and kebele level.
The
training was indispensably important to run program activities there by
meet program objectives and contribute to ensure organizational
mission, vision and goal. |
