Nuzhat Shahzadi, one of the authors for the VIPP manual and currently the Chief of Field Office and UN Joint Presence,UNICEF Pacific, Kiribati, facilitated an in-depth qualitative exercise with girls aged 12 to 15 years using VIPP.

Kiribati is one of the UN Champion countries for the global Adolescent Girls' Initiative (AGI). A champion country is one that will leverage the power of the UN
to support the realization of adolescent girls' rights. The workshop was organized as one of the asctivities leading up to the preparation of a concept note for the Global UN Adolescent Girls' Task Force which is co-chaired by UNICEF and UNFPA.
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This Training of Trainers is a specialised workshop for experienced trainers in the development sector from Asia, who like to proceed beyond the basics of VIPP and advance their trainer skills in developing and designing their own training projects.

We expect a group of up to 15 trainers and facilitators.

Two training courses on VIPP will be held in St. Ulrich near Freiburg, Germany in the second half of 2012.

The first course -- VIPP TOF -- will run from 4 to 8 June 4 2012 and is customized for facilitators and trainers who want to learn VIPP facilitation and practice and improve their presentation, visualisation and facilitation skills. We planned this workshop because we have received several requests from development workers for such training.

The second course is a VIPP Training of Trainers and Global Action Workshop
from 8 to 12 of October 2012. This course will introduce experienced trainers and facilitators to approaches for developing their own training projects. It will provide them opportunities to try out new methods and tools, and to discuss ideas with fellow facilitators and trainers. We will also explore during this workshop suggestions for setting up the Global Secretariat of VIPP during the proposed VIPP Summit of facilitators and trainers. The October workshop will also serve as a forum for discussing the aims of democratising development, contributing to self-determination of local communities, and supporting safe spaces for people to voice their concerns. This course will serve as a VIPP Pre-Summit encounter for the VIPP Community to consider ways of supporting the involvement of civil society in development and policy making. It will be hosted by Maruja Salas, Neill McKee
and Timmi Tillmann as members of the VIPP Core Group.

The announcement for the June TOF in St. Ulrich may be downloaded here.
Deadline for registration is April 15, 2012.

Email the VIPP Core Group if you are interested in attending the the Advanced Level TOT and Global Action Workshop in October 2012.

Nuzhat Shahzadi, a coauthor of Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes, shot and compiled a photo report on VIPP being used to facilitate a planning workshop of Afghan Red Crescent Volunteers held in Herat, Western Afghanistan. Nuzhat and her colleagues from UNICEF were the workshop fascilitators. The workshop participants represented different age groups and gender. Click here to see the photographs contributed by Nuzhat.

Our popular manual for facilitators: Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes has now been reprinted with a fully updated annotated bibliography offering the latest published and web-based resources for facilitators of participatory events.

Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes

This manual has been written for the trained facilitator of group events. It is designed to reinforce concepts and techniques learned in training of facilitators and trainers in participatory group processes. VIPP is not wedded to a particular framework or academic discipline in problem solving, planning or training. Rather it is a set of tools that can be applied to just about any group process as long as the intention is to make such processes more participatory
and democratic.

This is a manual for facilitators and trainers involved in:

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