Four young professionals from Southern partners from Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, and Uganda started training for one month at IRC, as part of the second round of the PSO-funded Southern Youth Zone Programme from 2010 to 2012.
Published on: 28/09/2011
Four young professionals from Southern partners from Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, and Uganda started training for one month at IRC, as part of the second round of PSO funded Southern Youth Zone Programme from 2010 to 2012. The programme aims to strengthen the knowledge and skills of eight young professionals involved in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Resource Centre Networks.
After the training at IRC the young professionals go for nine months to a local RCN in another country. The new batch of Young Professionals arrived at IRC on Monday 26 September 2011 for their one month training programme at IRC, in which they’ll prepare themselves for their nine month adventure in another country and organisation.
The second batch of young professionals consists of:
The training is given by IRC facilitators as well as external specialists. The extensive programme focuses on enhancing the young professionals’ knowledge in a particular content area. It also aims at improving their skills for facilitating learning in the sector. This will contribute to enhanced capacities for knowledge sharing and learning of the resource centres involved. It also aims to help inter-regional sharing and learning.
See more stories of the first round of South-South young professionals exchange programme on these web pages.
PSO is funding this programme. It is an association of 60 Dutch development organisations focusing on capacity development of civil society organisations in developing countries.
