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to implement the hrulo Village Assessment and Farticipation
Process (TVAPP). The c~nsuhtant~a socfologfst was assisted by
an experienced extensfan agefit from the Bay Region A$ricultnral
Developnent Project {SRADP) The training included lectures and
discussians on objectives and methods, and visits to project
villages.
The Cansultanlgs sociologist, assiste? by the 8EUU3P
advisorfinterpreter, acca~panied WDA and CGDP technical
personnel to villages identified as potential drilling sites.
Co~unity meetings were conducted to explain the project and to
collect data on ~ucioecun~rnic conditions using a village
self-aasessaent approach. Technical staff observed and
participated in these activities under consultant supervision.
The primary thrust af village participation activities
during the first yr was to design and to test the TVAPP
strategy. While training was a secondary issue the effort
successfully demonstra2ed the value of the TVAPP approach to
many technics1 personnel. Severa2 continued to implement
partians of it durin5 site selection and drilling activities.
Between 8 and 12 staff persons received the equivalent of 3
to 4 :teeks of training in camunity participation, an estimated
35 person weeks of training.
The TVAPP strategy is labor intensive and recpiree frequent
visits during the first year of site selection, drilling, and
canstrtzction activities. The lack of WDA staff ta implament the
community pzrtfcipakion program Led to a recommendation to train
members of the newiy organized monitoring and evaluation unit of
the Bay Region Acjricultural Development Project [RRADP), Tnis
was implemented in May and June of 1983 by LBIIqs development
anthrapolagist.
In June 1983, four enumerators attached 50 the monitoring
and evaluation unit of the BRADP received twelve days of
training The enumerators were young high school graduates,
20-25 years old, who had no formal training in community
development, social science, or monitoring and evaluation.
Their lack of prior training, and the fact that the BRADB had
not yet established an information system, ~eant that training
had to Se conducted at an introductory level. The program
focused on an explanation of basic concepts and research
methods. The training introduced the enumexators to the CGDP,
and to the integration of the village participatory approach.
~t include3 the development of skills to guide local
paeicipation ar,d to monitor and evaluate project events,
(ij Coordinatim with Sozaiia Development Agencies and the
Wyominq Social Science Team