Youth – Adult Partnership training in Bangladesh, August 2006
A three-day training for adults and young people from 12 partner organisations of the FPAB located in four regions of Bangladesh: Jessore, Dhaka, Faridpur and Chittagong. The training was facilitated by Ms Jeanette Slootbeek (senior consultant Youth Incentives) and Ms Barbara van Ginneken (junior consultant Youth Incentives and co-facilitated by Md Shoaib Jalil (Deputy Director & Focal Point, Adolescent) and Md Moazzem Hossain (senior programme officer).
The programme was based on a Youth –Adult Partnership module developed and tested by IPPF, YouAct and EuroNGO’s. The main objective of this visit was to train adults as well as young people to work together in Youth – Adult Partnerships (YAP).
The YAP training succeeded in giving the participants (mostly young people and some adults) more information and skills on Youth – Adult Partnership and Youth Participation. It also seemed to change the attitude of the participants concerning YAP into a more positive one. Although the training was only three days, it enabled the participants to get introduced to and to practice different methodologies to be used to (start to) work in Youth – Adult Partnerships Most of this methodologies were very new and could help especially the young participants to enable themselves to establish true Youth – Adult Partnerships, in which they will be able to form and voice their opinion and needs, when it comes to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Training of Trainers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 22-26, 2006
In the framework of the Youth Incentive Fund technical assistant is offered by Youth Incentives to the Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB). During the first Training of Trainers (ToT) in February 2006, it was decided that further training was needed specifically on sexuality. A second ToT was conducted from 22 -24 April. 22 Participants of FPAB and Youth Organisations attended the Training of Trainers on sexuality in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In total twenty two participants of which four recently recruited field coordinators (young women) with staff members of each district branch and four staff members of the Dhaka head office participated in the training. Md Shoaib Jalil (Deputy Director & Focal Point, Adolescent) and Jeanette Slootbeek (Sr. Consultant Youth Incentives) facilitated the training.
The training was very useful for all the participants and very new, although some of them were working in the SRH field for many years, conceptualising sexuality was something new and challenging. The main concern of most of them was how to implement it in a society were talking about these issues is not common or even seen as not done.
That sexuality can be more than sex alone was very new for quit a few of the participants, especial the sexuality of young people, because in Bangladesh, young people are not viewed as sexual beings, the outcome of the first exercise, a brainstorm on young people and sexuality was very negative. This opened the eyes for many of them. It was good to notice that all the participants were open minded and ready and willing to learn and try to understand the new ideas and methodologies.
Training in Bangladesh, February 19 - 21, 2006
Sixteen participants from the Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) attended a training course in Faridpur, Bangladesh. The training is an activity of the project ‘Promoting Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People through Youth Participation’ in Bangladesh. This project is financed by the Youth Incentives Fund and is identified, formulated and implemented by the FPAB. Md Shoaib Jalil (Deputy Director & Focal Point, Adolescent, FPAB) and Nico Barning (Sr. Consultant Youth Incentives) facilitated the training. The training was organised to give participants:
• a better understanding of the meaning of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• a better understanding of the RAP-tool and its use
• an understanding of the Youth Incentives objectives at its fund and
• information about the needs assessment and project in Bangladesh.
In order to reach the objectives different training methods were used, most of which were participatory and interactive. That made it a lively and interesting training.
