Indigo development & change offers various training courses. You can find our courses on offer for 2008 below. We can also offer customized training courses and facilitation. Please email info@indigo-dc.org for further information.

Overview

5-7 December 2007

Course contents: This course is designed to provide an opportunity to natural and human scientist to broaden their skills base so as to be able to better engage in collaborative scientific research programmes and share scientific results with other scientists and local resource users. A selection of appropriate participatory methods will be presented. Communication and facilitation skills are crucial for effective interdisciplinary work and for the implementation of participatory methods and will therefore be included in the course.

Topics include:

• Participatory Methods
• Facilitation and communication
• Perceptions and realities
• Process Design: Planning and implementing interactions with local communities
• Integration of science and local knowledge