CYP RCA/Workshops/Workshop 1/Draft Workshop Plan

Participation
* No. of NGOS: who? * No. of people / roles: Managers, Programme Coordinators/Leaders * 1 facilitator: Debasaki * No. of resource persons: who?

Focus
Practical Skills Development & Learning Materials Development
 * How do NGOs and youth leaders develop materials on Youth4Peace
 * What are the skill & capacity needs of NGOs related to materials development?
 * How can individual leaders develop specific learning activities for identified issues.
 * sports
 * community groups - art, drama, etc. (perhaps where men and women participate equally)

Aims

 * 1) To develop skills, and learning materials that will help youth leaders (and NGOs) respond to local community needs.
 * 2) To develop relationships and policies in order to consolidate they Youth4Peace network beginning in Sierra Leone, and elsewhere.
 * 3) To develop a better understanding of the principles of effective learning activities

Objectives & Outputs
...coming soon...

Leadup to the Workshop

 * Participation in online discussion group.
 * Participants choose a topic area to assist learning. We can encourage people to share their ideas / thematic topics on the group list, publish on the wiki, etc.
 * for example, a participant might choose a football video to develop questions around fair play.
 * Facilitator PRINTS Learning Activities Handout from the Commonwealth of Learning
 * Agenda developed and finalised on the wiki.

Participants "Bring" to the Workshop"

 * topic to develop learning activities around
 * "cultural artifact" from your culture - clothing, carving, music, image, artwork, song (they sing), dance, etc. - something that's important to them

9-11 am - Welcome
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 * Talk - initial instructions, and that they will be required to conduct "mini-presentations" on the Morning of Day 2 for feedback and suggestions for improvement.
 * Develop 4 groups of 4-5 people (i.e., they can number off from 1-4; or populate teams depending on criteria we develop here - you will have to give folks the rationale for putting them in specific groups, though)
 * Work begins as groups:

Introduction
This should provide a brief overview of what is in the plan, along with any necessary background information.

The staff (i.e., the instructors)
This section should list those involved and answer the following key questions:


 * Who will be developing and teaching the course?
 * What support staff will be involved?
 * What will the respective roles of the team members be?
 * Who will be the project's coordinator?

The students (i.e., the learners)
This question needs to be carefully considered and should address the following:

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 * Who will be studying the course?
 * What are their expected backgrounds and learning needs?
 * What learning experiences will they bring to their study?
 * What support and preparation in adapting to flexible learning will they require?


 * Identify the prospecitve audience - age, level, interest, attention span, culture, language, etc
 * Decide what format/media the audience is able to use / respond to (and that the instructors/participants can create (i.e., dialogue, interview, skit, song, dance (see if they can come up with examples for this -- the facilitator will have to help out here).
 * Decide how they can apply "Learning Activities" to these format / media

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End of Day

 * Review of Day 1
 * Looking forward
 * This evening - Cultural Evening - bring a Cultural Artifact
 * Day 2 - The Day Ahead - Review activities
 * Questions, Thoughts, Comments? - Participants share closing thoughts for Day 1
 * END

Review & Looking Forward

 * closing activity
 * review of day 1 and day 2

Outputs & Outcomes
Key Questions:
 * How do you sustain what happens after a 2-day workshop?
 * How do we use the face-to-face event to drive forward the process?

Outputs

 * 2- 4 learning activities
 * Flip chart content placed on WikiEducator page(s)
 * Strengthened networking and capacity building
 * Summary Report, including photos

Outcomes

 * Development of the principles on effective learning activities for peacebuilding
 * Development of action plans for working groups engagement for learning activities
 * Use of technical skills and competencies
 * Learning module development, content development strategies
 * Community outreach and partnerships

Other Suggestions
Workshop Outputs
 * 1) Agreed framework for community-based learning activities and programmes on peacebuilding, including a set of success factors
 * 2) Set of messages concerning peacebuilding
 * 3) Identified resources and related processes to support peacebuilding and learning activities
 * 4) Documented examples (summaries) of good practice in peacebuilding learning activities and programmes
 * 5) Action plans for peacebuilding in specific regions and countries as well as specific communities (where possible)

Workshop Outcomes
 * 1) New awareness and skills concerning development of peacebuilding learning activities and programmes
 * 2) New awareness concerning strategies to support conflict resolution and peacebuilding
 * 3) Agreed plan for increasing the number and quality of community-based learning activities programmes about peacebuilding