First My.Coop training in the Nepali language
20 May 2014
My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package was translated into the Nepali language at the end of 2013 in collaboration with My.Coop partners ILO, Agriterra and the Nepal Agricultural Co-operative Federation NACCFL. The first training of trainers using this translated material took place in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu valley in the first week of March 2014.
The training was jointly organized by Agriterra and NACCFL. It covered the first two modules of the My.Coop package: Basics of an agricultural cooperative and Cooperative service provision. The participants were mainly from the Department of Cooperatives, Small Farmers Development Bank, National Cooperative Federation of Nepal, and members and staff of agricultural cooperatives, along with NACCFL project staff from the Nepalese countryside, working with tea, dairy, cotton and honey cooperatives.
My.Coop roll out will continue in Nepal. The next step for NACCFL and Agriterra is to complete the remaining two modules of the training package for the participants. NACCFL will organize My.Coop training to leaders of its members cooperatives, who will then take the responsibility of the roll out in their respective cooperatives.
One of the co – facilitators to the training was Mr. Rabin Rai, who had already completed a distance learning My.Coop ToT course in 2013. Mr. Rai’s organization, the Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF) from Ilam in Eastern Nepal, represents more than 5,000 smallholder tea farmers in over 70 primary cooperatives, and provides capacity building, technical support and access to financial and other services to its member cooperatives.
Before this training in Nepalese, Mr. Rai had already facilitated a My.Coop training in his community. Through this training he got more practical exposure to new, participatory methods, and is in the process of establishing cooperative field schools in Ilam to train a total of 120 farmers in My.Coop by August of this year.
My.Coop roll out will continue in Nepal. The next step for NACCFL and Agriterra is to complete the remaining two modules of the training package for the participants. NACCFL will organize My.Coop training to leaders of its members cooperatives, who will then take the responsibility of the roll out in their respective cooperatives.
Before this training in Nepalese, Mr. Rai had already facilitated a My.Coop training in his community. Through this training he got more practical exposure to new, participatory methods, and is in the process of establishing cooperative field schools in Ilam to train a total of 120 farmers in My.Coop by August of this year.