Community Development Education Course
Presented By: ECHO Asia Impact Center
Event Contact:
Hanni Oppel (echoasia@echocommunity.org)
This ECHO Asia CDE training workshop is designed to help community development workers improve the adoption rate of new technologies among smallholder farmers. The principles and practices are taken from standard CHE (Community Health Evangelism) training and applied to this specific focus.
We will discover how core values enhance the process of adoption. We will explore how adults learn through the use of a key facilitated teaching style that peaks interest, engagement as well as retention and implementation.
Important considerations such as stakeholders, gatekeepers, champions, basic sociological & cultural factors, and the timeline sequence of when to introduce new technologies will be explored.
Other insights will be discovered, such as defining the roles of the outsiders introducing the new technologies, selecting agriculture communities/ individual farmers who have more capacity for new technologies, and suggesting practices that minimize risk and ensure long-term sustainability.
Event Details
Location
ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center
San Sai Chiang Mai, Thailand
Language
English ONLY
Cost
Training fees: 3,500 THB per person
(fees include facilities and supplies, lunches and coffee breaks)
Accommodations available (includes lodging, breakfast and dinner):
450/550/850 per day depending on room selection
Payment Options
Bank Transfer preferred, PayPal also available