ENEA rural management training

Project will upgrade ENEA"s core curriculum and provide ENEA faculty and students and GOS personnel with PM training. A basic curriculum in PM will be established in ENEA"s core curriculum and in each specialized college. The new curriciulum will cover project identification, e.g., community needs, priorities and constraints, and data collection and evaluation; project formulation and design, e.g., planning concepts and techniques, the role of diverse planning units, and administrative procedures; and project monitoring and evaluation, e.g., a management information system (MIS), performance indicators, and replicability. Training materials, including case studies and teaching aids, will be developed for the new curriculum. Early in the project, ENEA faculty will receive a 2-6 week course in PM concepts and processes. Later short-term workshops and seminars in such areas as pedagogical techniques, the project cycle, and the impact of food issues on women will be provided to enable ENEA to develop a core faculty able to develop, teach, and refine the PM curriculum. Select faculty will receive long- and short-term U.S. training. In addition, in-service training workshops in PM, including refresher modules and a training-of-trainers component, will be provided to GOS user personnel, many of whom are ENEA graduates. An MIS will be established to allow annual assessments of user agency requirements and feedback on the utility of PM training. Finally, ENEA"s library staff will be helped to identify and obtain PM-related French language materials, including less readily available items such as donor agency reports, and to translate PM materials into both French and national languages. ENEA"s considerable stock of information - including fieldwork by ENEA students and applied PM research by ENEA faculty - will be organized and made more available to Senegalese researchers and development personnel.