Tacloban City, Philippines – AsiaDHRRA, in partnership with PhilDHRRA and PAKISAMA, conducted a training-workshop with a theme: Basic Orientation on Community Organizing an Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation from 31 January to 2 February 2015.

It aimed to enable the participants to verbalize basic values, philosophies and commitments in relation to why they need to be organized as basic sector, and implement projects that would help address their needs.
The five-day training workshop covered the following topics:

• Deep value for human person – respect for human dignity
• The general current situation of FOs, especially the root of poverty and injustice; and, the general orientations that shape the kind of development responses
• The importance of Community Organizing and its underlying basic principles
• Basic skills in communication and facilitating meetings and discussion.
• Basic understand and skills in Project Management
  • What is Planning: Strategic, annual and activity planning
  • What is Monitoring? Key ideas on how to monitor.
  • Orientation on how to read financial report?
  • What is Evaluation? Basic Attitudes and expected results.

It was attended by chairpersons, project managers, and community organizers from the eight farmers’ organizations being supported by AsiaDHRRA trough its Farmers Fighting Poverty and Post-Haiyan fund facilities.