AFRO-NETS> 2003 International Course on Rural Development and Management

[Vic Evan <Vic.Evan@iirr.org>]

2003 International Course on Rural Development and Management
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16 June to 11 July, 2003 
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Silang, Cavite, The Philippines

This course is for senior and mid-level development managers, and 
covers development issues, managing sustainable and people-centered 
development programs, and managing development organizations. It ad-
dresses aspects of program and project planning, implementation and 
evaluation. Topics include: issues in development, approaches in de-
velopment with focus on participation and integration, strengthening 
of organizations, and action planning. Participants are introduced to 
real-life experiences in rural development and the course is built 
around observations of community-level development efforts in the 
Philippines.
Course fee: US$ 3,000 

For more information and to get a copy of the application form, 
kindly contact (we encourage the use of e-mail): 
Course Coordinator 
Education & Training Program 
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction 
Y. C. James Yen Center 
Silang, Cavite 4118, Philippines 
Tel: +63-46-4142-417 
Fax: +63-46-4142-420 
mailto:Education&Training@iirr.org
http://www.iirr.org 

IIRR has 40 years of conducting international training courses and 
over 80 years of rural development experience and is the pioneer in 
promoting people-centered, integrated and sustainable development ap-
proaches. IIRR is a recipient of various awards in recognition of its 
contributions to development. Among these is the Alan Shawn Fein-
stein's 1995 World Hunger Award in recognition of "IIRR's exceptional 
work to provide opportunities for small rural farmers throughout the 
developing world to prevent and reduce hunger and malnutrition in 
their communities." IIRR has also received the prestigious Ramon Mag-
saysay Award for International Understanding, an award considered to 
be the "Nobel Prize of Asia". IIRR was incorporated in the United 
States in 1960 as a research and training institute for development 
workers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Its headquarters and Y.C. 
James Yen-Regional Center for Asia are in the Philippines. It oper-
ates two other regional centers in Africa and Latin America, a coun-
try office in Ethiopia, and has a liaison office in the United 
States.

We encourage early registration to the course. Each early registrant 
will get a copy of an IIRR publication, among the choices are:

Participatory Technology Development for Agricultural Improvement: 
Challenges for Institutional Integration. 2002. In the course of im-
plementation, participatory technology development (PTD) PTD projects 
have faced challenges of integrating the practices into the various 
institutions. This publication, and the accompanying interactive CD, 
is a result of a study and workshop conducted by ETC Ecoculture of 
the Netherlands and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruc-
tion (IIRR) in 2001 on institutionalizing PTD. The study generated 19 
cases from around the world. The publication is largely an analytical 
report of the study and the workshop while the interactive CD con-
tains both the publication and the detailed cases presented in very 
reader friendly and easily navigable formats. 

or 

Enhancing Ownership and Sustainability: A Resource Book on Participa-
tion. 2001. This publication describes a broad range of first-hand 
experiences with participatory approaches in the context of projects 
funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) NGOs 
and governments in Asia. It also contains details of some of the 
newer approaches that are being tried in the region. It focuses on 
participatory processes and their management, and presents a broad 
range of concrete experience with different tools. It is assumed that 
the reader is already familiar with the use of tools like PRA/PLA/PME 
and is now interested in second generation issues related to project 
design, training and measurement of impact associated with the use of 
participatory processes. Each article reflects specific experiences. 
This resource book was produced through the writeshop process organ-
ized by IIRR, IFAD, Asian Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural De-
velopment (ANGOC), South East Asian Rural Social Leadership Institute 
(SEARSOLIN), Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the 
Pacific and MYRADA.

or 

Going to Scale: Can we bring more benefits to more people more 
quickly? 2000. This publication presents the highlights from the 
Washington workshops held on October 22-23, 1999 at the World Bank 
and the Philippines workshop held on April 10-14, 2000 at Interna-
tional Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). This book contains 
the concepts, principles, strategies and issues that were raised and 
discussed during the workshops. It features the summaries of the se-
lected case studies presented at both workshops. These case studies 
are of varying foci - sustainable agriculture, natural resource man-
agement, health and social development, micro-credit and agrarian re-
form - and are about the experiences, strategies and approaches of 
various organizations in scaling up. The Consultative Group on Inter-
national Agricultural Research (CGIAR)-NGO Committee and Global Forum 
on Agricultural Research (GFAR) provided the funding support to pro-
duce this publication.

For more information about IIRR's publications, please contact us or 
visit part of our website : <http://www.iirr.org/html/catalog.htm>

We look forward to seeing your organization represented in this 
course. We hope that you would also share this course announcement 
with colleagues, supervisors, and other development professionals for 
their information as well. 

Thank you. 
Sincerely yours, 

Vic Evan  
IIRR-RCA 
mailto:Vic.Evan@iirr.org 

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