1. Proposal to conduct training to enhance livelihood opportunities for communities
benefitted by the rural road development project
1) Overall need assessment
During the implementation of the rural road development project in the Anuradhapura district,
Sewalanka field staff conducted participatory training need assessments among communities
benefitted by the roads renovated to determine the type training and other support required by
them in order to exploit the maximum benefit from improved roads.
This need assessment was conducted by facilitating a group of about 30-50 people in each
GND. The participants included members from households benefitted by the cash for work
programme as well as from households not benefitted by the cash for programme. Nearly 70%
of the participants were women.
When summarized, the training needs identified by community groups fall in to 4 categories.
a) Training and counseling support to start micro-enterprises and to improve existing
farm and non-farm income generation activities in respective communities. The farm
based income generation activities range from paddy cultivation using improved seeds,
production and marketing of cash crops such as chilli, red onion, maize and vegetables,
rearing of goats for meat, cattle rearing for milk to poultry for eggs and meat. The non-farm
income generation activities mentioned comprise of micro-enterprises such as cement
block making, pottery, mushroom cultivation, dry fish production, soap making, incense
sticks and reed mats making, Some micro-enterprises belongs to the service sector – such
as tailoring, fish/vegetable vending, radio/TV repairing and retail shops.
b) Capacity building training for Women Rural Development Societies (WRDS). Most of
the community groups that did training needs assessment felt that after renovating the
community roads many income generating opportunities for women will emerge in the
future. To exploit these opportunities in a sustainable manner WRDS will have to play an
important role. But the capacities of WRDSs in the target communities now remain rather
inadequate.
c) Training to enhance knowledge and skills of women – particularly mothers in home-
based food production, processing and preparation with a view to address
communities’ food security and nutrition problems. Participating women expressed the
need to increase women’s involvement in food (vegetables and fruits) production as a
source of income.On further facilitation this need was further extended to cover the nutrition
aspect. The possibility to reduce household expenses in buying expensive but nutrition
deficient fancy foods by promoting homegrown and processed foodswas discussed and the
many groups agreed to promote this objective. Therefore these communities need training
and exposure on best practices in integrated household nutrition and food production
approaches.
d) Training and guidance on maintenance of renovated roads.
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2. 2) Proposal to conduct micro-enterprise management training
2.1. The objectives of the proposed microenterprise training are:
To enhance the basic knowledge in identifying income generating opportunities and
preparatory planning to exploit such opportunities.
To develop skills to manage income generating activities profitably and sustainable
manner.
To promote collective approaches among various livelihood groups to sustainably
increase their profits.
2.2. Training modules proposed to meet training objectives
Objectives Modules
1.To enhance basic knowledge in identifying Concept of small business
income generation/ microenterprise Basic elements of a small business
opportunities and to do preparatory planning SWOT analysis
2. To develop skills to plan and manage Costing and pricing
income generating activities profitably. Business planning
Book keeping and financial statements
Marketing
Evaluation of business
3. To develop collective approaches to Leadership and teamwork
profitably sustain microenterprises development
Collective input purchasing and
product marketing
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3. 2.3. Proposed training agenda
A 2 day training programmes is proposed. For each training programme it is proposed to have
20 trainees.
Training modules Sub-modules No. of sessions and
duration
Day 1 (5 sessions)
Inauguration Identifying participants
Sharing objectives ½ hour
Module 1: Introduction to Types of microenterprises
microenterprises Basic elements of a
microenterprise 2 sessions (each 45
4 pillars of a minutes)
microenterprise(ideas,
motivation, ability/skills and
resources)
Module 2:Costing and pricing Concepts and practice of
costing in microenterprises One session (45 minutes)
Concepts and practice of
pricing in microenterprises
Module 3: Business planning Importance of
microenterpriseplanning 2 sessions ( each 45
Basic structure and minutes)
elements of a business plan
Day 2 (6 sessions)
Module 4: Book keeping and Importance of book keeping
financial statements Basic books of accounting 2 sessions (each 45
Accounting procedure minutes)
Profit and loss account
Module 5: Marketing for rural Basic concept of marketing
microenterprises Basic elements /strategies 2 sessions (each 45
of marketing minutes)
Marketing channels and
market identification
Module 6: Collective approaches to Collective visioning
microenterprisemanagement Importance of leadership One session (45 minutes)
Division and coordination of
tasks
Network development
Module 7: Evaluation of Indicators of successful
microenterprise success rural businesses One session (30 minutes)
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4. 2.4. Target beneficiaries
It is proposed to target xxx community members to provide microenterprise training and they
will be selected in the following manner.
PS/DS No. of trainees
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Total number of trainees xxx
2.5. Budget
i) Cost per training programme (each 20 trainees)
Item Units No. of Rate/unit Cost
units (Rs.) (Rs.)
1. Venue charges days 2 ?? ??
2. Stationery/training materials trainees 20 200 4000
3. Resource persons Person days 4 4000 16000
4. Food /refreshment for trainees Trainee days 40 300 12000
ii) Cost for xx training programmes:
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