REPORT FROM TRANING FOR TRAINERS

Place: Laktasi, Hotel "SAN"

Date: 25 - 27.02.2010.

Introduction:
During those three days of training participants were teach about basics of training skills and were provided with needed knowledge and gain some practical experience in providing trainings by taking active role as trainer during training duration.

Most of the work was implemented in small groups and interaction during training with practical tasks and group work was assuring group dynamic needed for personal development and raising self esteem at individual participants.

Having in consideration that participants were coming from more that 20 different towns from BiH, training program provided time and space, in free times, for participants to meet and get to knew each other better so that, during working hours, participants were focus on training agenda.

Participants also showed great interest in topic and motivation to participate sessions was on high level and there were no any critical moments during training.

Great support to training implementation was given by people from HCA Tuzla office were present whole time of duration of training, supporting trainers and participants with all needed logistics for training.

Achieving the aims of training:
The following aims were set before training:
. Youth acquiring the skills for further pear to peer education,
. Giving possibility to young people of different background (religion and nationality) to understand needs and advantages of joint work in democratic struggle for improvement of life for young people
. Promotion of values of tolerance
. Awareness building about the needs of young people in local communities of the target regions
. Educate youth in democratic instruments for local development
According the evaluation from participants, and trainer evaluation, most of the aims were successfully achieved promising that some of the participants will further move on the process and using experiences from this training start initiatives in their own local community and apply for some future, advanced, training for trainers.
For achieving aims of the training in such high level it is to thanks to the fact that most of the participants had realistic expectations from training and that most of them are active in local NGOs for some time.

Participants:
It was planed that 30 youth participants, 15 form each region, will participate at training but for some objective reasons some participants couldn't join and needed to cancel at last day so total number of participants were 24 participants but all towns cowered by project were represented:
Bosanski Petrovac, Banja Luka, Bihać, Doboj, Kotor Varoš, Otoka, Bosanska Krupa, Cazin, Laktaši, Trn, Novi Grad, Prijedor, Kozarska Dubica i Mrkonjić Grad

Trainer:
Trainer followed the agreed agenda and manages to fulfill all the requirements from program and respond to participants expectations. Trainer, as well as whole training methodologies, accommodation, materials used and importance of topic was marked with average mark 4,7 (5 was the highest), based on evaluation questionnaires filled by participants.

Expected results:
Following results were expected from training:
1. to have new group of trainers capable of transferring knowledge to their own local communities and pears
2. newly "produced" trainers will organize similar trainings in their local communities
3. participants will form informal knowledge network and use network as base for further learning and development
4. participants will overcome prejudices regarding people from different ethnic background and start to cooperate amongst each other
5. young people from target areas will increase their participation and visibility in local community and work on promotion of European values

Because some of the expected results are depending on longer term process (3 and 5) we can't talk now about all of the results but for some of them we are quite sure that happened in following results:
1. group of 24 young leaders participated and gain knowledge to transfer that knowledge to their pears
2. 24 new trainers received certificate so they are now ready to implement programs, some possible activities participants have developed on training, and hopefully with support from HCA Tuzla, those activities will be implemented by the end of the year.
5. most visible result was that participants were willing and actively worked with all other participants regardless their ethnicity, at least during training but we believe that this situation will last when participants return home as well

Overall evaluation of training, based on evaluation questionnaires from participants is following:
a) weak -
b) enough -
c) average -
d) good - 21,7%
e) exelent - 78, 3%

Recommendations:
In order to assure that all results are going to be achieved in most significant level it is needed that some follow up actions are implemented:
- give support to certain number of projects of participants and media promotion of project in order to strengthen "newly produced trainers" and increase awareness of local society of their existence
- organize more advanced training for trainer for ones that showed greater interest and shown that have capacities and wiliness to advance and become trainers
- support to development of informal network of participants using mailing list, Facebook or other way of modern communication
- implement evaluation of participants follow up activities in order to measure their involvement in local community and work on promotion of European values

Trainer:
Jasmin Jašarević