IMDP training manuals for non-literate people in developing countries

Techniques and examples for developing illustrated training manuals for non-literate people in developing countries for use by individuals and organisations.

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Manual Packs Available Tree Planting, Management and Uses: Manuals for Women Farmers in West Africa (freecharge/postage cost only) An A4 sized pack containing 8 simple manuals and a CD-ROM of all the pictures featured in the manuals. The pack contains over a hundred illustrations that can be stored on your computer and used to print further copies of the manual, or to develop other training material. For more details or to order your packs, please click here	Order (These manuals can also be downloaded from this website on the Manuals page - click here )
News and Current Activities The Food and Nutrition Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, The Gambia have now produced their own booklet on Weaning Foods and are using this as part of their field-level training programmes in the Gambia Article on Manual Pack in IIED, Haramata Bulletin No. 41. Staff from the Non-Formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education in Ghana are using this technique in the production of their literacy training material. Tree Aid have recently requested Manual Packs for their West Africa Programme.Are you using these manuals? Have you tried developing your own material? Please send us feedback. Click here for our contact details	Available for download soon!
Views and Comments "We lost most of our crops because we cannot keep down the insects, the chemicals that we use to control them are too expensive to buy, sometimes not even available at the market. This new technique that we have learned from this manual will help us prevent our crops from pest without cost. For the past two years we stop working in our garden because of pest and fence problems so now that we know how to control pest with neem tree leaves and seeds and live fencing technique, we will go back to the garden again." Woman farmer, Tankanto village, The Gambia. "The target groups of women farmers like these manuals and think they are very useful. It would be good if we could produce more." Non-Formal Education Division, Ministry of Education, Ghana. "We are very happy about it [manual on Planting Seedlings], because it is just recent when the Gambian German Community Forest project has started talking to us about the importance of trees and tree planting but not much time was spent with us to do it in practical. With the help of the manual they can now plant any tree without problem by looking at the pictures step by step." Women farmers, Jawo Kunda, The Gambia. (translated by local UNV staff)
Feedback from Partners Views and comments from women farmers on the manuals produced by the project Click here to see the Field Test document. Comments from government and NGO staff in two African countries on the suitability of the technique for developing their own training manuals Click here to see the Evaluation document.


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