A major area of training for village council members is awareness and capacity-building for mobilization and sustainable management of social, physical and financial resources in order to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor 

These activities aim to:

enhance awareness and self-help capacities of the rural poor, including small and landless farmers, small-scale rural producers, rural women, indigenous people and rural people with disabilities;

enable the rural poor to mobilize local resources; and bring about a more equitable sharing of the benefits of local and national socio-economic

development.

1. Training module on participatory planning and management

Participatory planning

Participatory planning is a process by which a community undertakes to reach a given socio-economic goal by consciously diagnosing its problems and charting a course of action to resolve those problems. Experts are needed, but only as facilitators. Moreover, no one likes to participate in something which is not of his/her own creation. Plans prepared by outside experts, irrespective of their technical soundness, cannot inspire the people to participate in their implementation.