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How can we make the CAT better?
Sep 9 2009, 4:36 AM EDT
| Post edited: Sep 9 2009, 4:41 AM EDT
Below are some guiding questions that may help you think about possible feedback.Was the PDM training useful? Why or why not? What suggestions do you have to improve the PDM training? For TCCO'ers, how might the CAT and the PDM be more useful to your program? What was the most effective part of the CAT for you? Least effective? What suggestions might you have to modify/ improve the CAT? Did the PDM training initiate actual project design and implementation at your site? Should PST I include more PDM training since the CAT is inevitiably part of the PDM? How might the CAT and PDM trainings be more integrated? How can we make the CAT and PDM more understandable to our Thai counterparts? Thanks for your time everyone, keep up the good work! -PRC 121 -- Heidi Mahoney From my point of view, I feel that the one concept that we really did not communicate very well or inculcate in the trainees was the fact that the Community Assessment is a participatory planning tool - meaning that it was to be done together with the community. This was a process that the community went through with the PCV facilitating the process. It should be a part of community planning process and the Tambon planning process. So, I would add the following questions to your survey: 1. To what extent was the Community Assessment a participatory process with the host community? 2. What could have made it a more participatory process? 3. What could have been done during training to prepare you for the participatory nature of the community assessment? Do you find this valuable?
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1. RE: How can we make the CAT better?
Sep 9 2009, 8:15 AM EDT
This was a comment from staff that I really liked: "I wonder if some people haven't lost sight of: this, [CAT'ing], is supposed to be a fun activity"So, I would add in the Kirpatrick-y: "Did you have fun?" "What did you (PCV) enjoy about doing the CAT?" and then repeat both for the Community/"Counterpart" 100% agree with Heidi. 120's CBOD PST1 was real PD heavy. It wasn't very good at all- you do a little mini-project that has no real benefit to the community, and which was unrealistic in implementation (i.e.- you do it with your language group, so the project, the presentation, the design all occur with 3 other farang, and not with Thai community; it occurs with an LIF present, project presentation and facilitation occurs with other farang as an audience). I think the hope, in reaction to that failure, was to get the CAT in your guys' hands, make you better surveyors, and integrate the PDM aspects in later, closer to the point when such events would happen over the course of service? Alec and Cameron would know better, though, as well as Tuffin- as he was at the fore of re-writing 121's PST... Do you find this valuable? |
