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Official closing ceremony of the training sessions of component 1 Agriculture
On January 20th 2015, a ceremony was held bringing 2 years of fruitful collaboration between AFC Consultants International, the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture’s training Department and the DIVECO (DIVersification of the ECOnomy) project team to an end. Over the last two years AFC has implemented a multitude of training sessions for the Ministry of Agriculture’s human resources and affiliated institutions, including on the following topics:
Product certification and traceability
Research methods, statistics, data analysis and econometrics
Agriculture Chamber Management
Training methods and approaches
Agricultural and Livestock value chains.
The trainings took place both in Algeria (in Algers and in regions) and also abroad in France, giving trainees the opportunity to learn from experiences abroad.
This ceremony took place at the National Agriculture Research Institute and summarized the main results of the project. In total 731 persons have been trained, of which 25% are women and of which two were 130 hours training programs insuring a recurring pedagogy and close monitoring of the trainees.
The main approaches used in order to guarantee high standards and tailor the trainings to the ministry’s staff’s needs include:
A common pedagogic approach for all trainers;
A questionnaire prior to all trainings to identify the trainee profiles and training needs;
A competency based approach for each training building on concrete scenarios;
Supporting material for each training with all documents available in hard copy, on CD or the DIVECO website (www.diveco-algerie.org) ;
A standardized evaluation procedure (by participants and the trainer) for each training session.
The Director of the Ministry of Agriculture’s training department, Mr Chehat, stated that the “programme was a 100% success”, highlighting that it had not only built staff’s technical and pedagogic capacity but also awakened their interest for further trainings whose content can be applied in their day to day work.
Whilst the project was a success, it is clear that there are still unmet capacity building needs for the ministry of agriculture. In was noted that longer courses were particularly beneficial, suggesting that setting up a long distance training system may be an interesting option for provided more in depth and continued training opportunities.
For further details please contact
Marie-Laetitia.Catta [at] afci.de