The Women & Child Development Programme
Women & Child Development wing of ATI, WB develops a training module on Women & Child Development for block functionaries of West Bengal. This module was developed through various seminar & workshops involving Government officials, Social Activists, and eminent persons of training & development field of West Bengal as well as India. This project is supported by UNICEF, Kolkata. This training module is designed through a holistic outlook. This is a generic module. This can be of use for any level of development officials, Panchayet Representatives and civil societies.
After a series of general and issue based workshops, a trial run of the draft module was organised in Maldah, North 24 Parganas & Bardhaman districts of West Bengal. Participants were from Six (6) block level functionaries i.e., Kaliachalk I & Kaliachalk II of Malda district, Sandeshkhali I & Sandeshkhali II of North 24 Parganas district and Raina I and Jamalpur Block of Bardhaman district. Those trial runs were held in training hall of Kaliachalk II, Sandeshkhali II, Jamalpur block.
From the feedback and assessment of the draft module, workshops and meetings were organised with scholars and experts in this field. After several discussions the module took a final shape. Methodology of the module is user friendly. Jargon free language is used in the reading materials. As a result it can be used in every level of capacity building programme.
Two (2) Training of Trainers (TOT) programmes were held in ATI, one was for district level officials and another for Panchayet Representatives of district level and civil Societies who are working in the field of Women & Child Development in west Bengal.
The final module is being circulated to trainers in TOT programmes. On basis of the TOT, several workshop will be organised in District and block level. The Second phase training programme of block level was held in February 2007 at Kaliachalk II block of Maldah district.
The final module is being translated in to Bengali & Nepali language.