Participant training : an evaluation of the USAID/Lisbon participant training program and a suggestion for a standardized AID participant training planning, monitoring and evaluation methodology

participant training program in Portugal and suggests a standardized evaluation methodology for use by A.I.D. The study involved questionnaries completed by 200 of the country"s 248 returned participants which were coded and put on computer. The absence of an existing model and methdology upon which to build proved to be the main difficulty. However, the end result was the development of a useful model and methodology which can now serve as a basis for future studies. (Participant training abstract)