The Resurging Value of Civil Society for Indian Crafts
Apart from being Community Information Resource Centre, CIRCs have served to be centres where anyone interested and driven to serve the community can access training resources credibly.
Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) set up by DEF where most projects are based out of have served people from various categories. Capacity building has been an integral part of the programs curated by DEF which help in effective implementation and scaling up the services that can be extended to the targeted sections of the society. A 9 days capacity building workshop was organised by DEF where trainers from Kisan Trust took up training.
The workshop started on 4th November and ended on 12th November which was extended to three trainers from Chhaprauli of Uttar Pradesh. The main objective of the training was to introduce all the training modules under CIRC such as SoochnaPreneur, MakerSpace, Digital Literacy and building critical thinking as well as problem solving skills.
The training was mainly centred around preparing the trainers to further train, setting up of centres, introducing trainer mapping and monitoring and evaluation. START Toolkit, STE(A)M Lv 1, STE(A)M Lv 2 and Mera App were introduced to the trainers and the activities were planned to ensure hands-on experience on using these toolkits. Two meetings were held with Kisan Trust members to understand the practical applicability of the training.
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