NSRLM Communication & Facilitation training ends

Chief Operating Officer, NSRLM, M Rollan Lotha with the resource persons and participants after the four-day training which concluded in Kohima on September 22.  (Photo Courtesy: NSRLM)

Kohima, September 23 (MExN): Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM) concluded its four-day ‘Communication and Facilitation’ training which commenced on September 19 in Kohima.

The participants were the new staff from the 18 newly launched Block Mission Management units. M Rollan Lotha, Chief Operating Officer (COO), NSRLM reiterated that DAY-NRLM was a highly processed oriented programme and required intensive application of resources, both financial and human.This, he said was in order to mobilize the poor and the vulnerable into functionally effective institutions of poor (SHGs), promote their financial inclusion and diversify and strengthen their livelihoods.In this light, he underscored the magnitude of communication and facilitation skills to foster change in the community towards “helping the poor to engage in a process, and reach an agreement or solutions without getting directly involved yourself.”

“These skills will enhance personal development and impact you professionally, personally, and socially,” he added. 
He also reviewed the team’s ongoing ‘Community Resource Persons (CRP)’ Round intervention in mobilizing the poor into Self Help Groups in the 18 Blocks.

CRP rounds are jointly conducted by the staff and a team of resource persons from the community who are members of the SHG through 20 day village stay, the release stated.Thereafter, handholding support was provided to the SHGs every month for 15 days period by the staff along with the trained community cadres who are active members of the SHG themselves.The focus of the training was to enhance effective facilitation skills and techniques to encourage the community institutions to achieve their goals. The training was jointly facilitated by State Program Managers Imonenla Imkong Phom and Renvungo Murry along with the national resource persons, NIRD - Shivaji Choudhury, Pradyut Bhattacharjee, Debashis Mandal, and Sulakshana Padhi.