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NAKHLATEC supports Scientific Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in providing supportive workshop training courses backed up by longer term internet-based discussion groups and interfacing email communications. Truly interactive workshops positively encourage development of networks and resource sharing opportunities among communities of young researchers and rural development personnel. This is especially the case when participants share common goals and face similar challenges. The interactive sessions possible in workshops can lead to effective strengthening of research networks and facilitate mentoring support from senior members of research groups.
This strategy is consolidated with good effect at NAKHLATEC’s many recent workshops mounted in diverse cultural backgrounds in Africa and SE Asia and covering such topics as How to write a winning scientific research proposal mounted in collaboration with the International Foundation of Sciences (IFS) and the Flemish Inter-University Council (VLIR-UOS) of Belgium and another series entitled Improving skills in scientific writing for submission of manuscripts to international journals mounted in collaboration with the Institute of Biotechnology(IBT), Hanoi, Vietnam.
Special emphasis is being placed by NAKHLATEC on the training of trainers concept to provide the incentive for a proportion of the more senior participants to run in the future interactive workshops in their own institutions and thereby obtain a more sustainable and meaningful output from otherwise one-off workshops. Gender mainstreaming is of major concern: institutions should address this important issue by making more places available than at present for professional women to attend fully interactive workshops so allowing them to contribute more to the development of science in their communities.
Institutions and organizations interested in holding interactive workshops of this type are invited to contact NAKHLATEC for further details. Opportunities for seeking funding support can also be taken up by NAKHLATEC with its various partners and through its networks in the biological resource management and rural development fields.
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Arrangements for holding a given workshop are best developed and planned in partnership with the customer well in advance of the workshop event (at least 4 months has been found useful as a guide but more urgent requests can always be accommodated). A good period for holding a workshop has been found to be 4-5 days of a normal working week during which time every participant is able, in most cases, to concentrate soley on the workshop itself without being distracted by other events. Distractions are all too common: for example when the workshop programme is spread over a weekend between two working weeks. The likelihood of distractions is reduced considerably if a location is chosen some distance away from a hub city or some other populous centre and the workshop is a fully residential one.
Workshops are structured in such a way to encourage every single participant to take part in various specially designed group and team activities. Use of laptop computers is an ideal way of transmitting outputs of work teams in the form of projected electronic presentations. Each workshop is followed up with an impact study within 24 months to establish the benefits of each event. |
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Plates on this webpage: 1. Demonstration of farm implements during a farm school workshop 2. Discussion group session during a scientific proposal writing workshop held in Nairobi in 2008 3. Working on the objectives and hypothesis in a scientific workshop held in Lusaka, Zambia in 2008 4. Discussion group working on the methodology and experimental design aspects of a scientific proposal (Nairobi, 2008) 5. Participants receiving special guidance from Dr Richard Hall (IFS) as to how to fill in different sections of an IFS first research grant proposal form (Mekelle, 2008) 6. Scientific research proposal writing workshop held in Vietnam with the Institute of Biotechnology (IBT), Hanoi in 2007 7. Scientific paper writing and drafting workshop held in Vietnam with IBT, Hanoi in 2009 8. Critical evaluation of an IFS proposal previously submitted to IFS for funding,. Do the teams agree with the findings and comments of the original evaluation made by international scientific experts? Lusaka (2008) 9. Plenary reporting session on scientific proposal writing. Nairobi (2008) 10. Discussing the drafting of a research proposal summary at a workshop held in Mekelle, Ethiopia in 2008 |
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