Acronyms

TRAINING, SEMINAR AND STUDY TOUR

IThe training programmes, seminars and study tour(s) organized by ISDCM in 2008 are presented hereunder:

Table-21 : Training on Group management and Micro-credit operation 2008

Category of persons	No. of persons Trained	Male	Female	Total
Project Organizer(s)	06	04	02	06
Group Chariperson	50	0	50	50
Group Secretaries	50	0	50	50
Group Members	300	0	300	300
Total:	406	4	402	406

The data shows that almost all the persons trained were females.

Table-22 : Training of Project personnel trained on operation And management of different project

Subject	District Proj-ect Coordinator	Project Engineer	Project Mon-itoring Officer	Project Accountant	Project Organizer	Total
Project management and operation (HYSAWA)	01	01	01	33	0	36
Micro-credit Operation	0	0	0	0	04	04
Total:	01	01	01	33	04	40

Table-23 : Training of different categories of workers in 2008

Subject	Category of workers trained
	Group Leaders	Volunteers	Male	Female	Total	% of Female
Hygiene practices (Use of Sanitary Latrines, Safe Drinking Water)	50	100	60	90	150	60
Organizing Groups	36	58	40	54	94	57.44
Total:	86	158	100	144	244	59

It is found that in 2008 good number of persons were trained at the grass root level of whom majority were females.

1. Seminars

In the year under review following seminars were organized by ISDCM local offices on the subject(s) quite relevant to the activities of ISDCM:

Table-24 : Showing Regional / Local level Seminars and Number of participants attended in ISDCM Project areas (2008)

Name of Project Area	No. of Regional / local seminars organized	Total No. number attended	Male (%)	Female (%)
Naogaon	03	100	65	35
Natore	05	204	70	30
Syedpur	01	300	0	100
Rangpur	01	46	39	61
Manikganj	01	50	02	98
Total:	11	700	-	-

During the period 11 regional and local level seminars were organized which was participated by 700 persons of different categories of whom participants included Union Parishad Chairmen, Municipality Chairmen, District level Officials, Upazila Officials, Marriage Registrars, Women Group Leaders, Municipal Councilors, UP Members, Imams, Teachers, Journalists, Village Doctors etc.

The subjects of the seminars were: i) Prevention of early Marriage, (ii) Prevention of child labour, iii) Prevention of Dowry systems and its consequences, iv) HIV and AIDS in Bangladesh, v) Child Rights Protection, vi) Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), vii) Women empowerment etc.

2. Study Tour

In 2008 six Branch Managers of ISDCM Micro-credit programme visited to Tomaltola Branch of Bagatipara to study the Micro-credit operation and its problems and shared their experience among themselves for improvements.

The Regional Manager of ISDCM visited Syedpur Project to gather experience as to how differently Micro-finance project is being implemented there. He later shared the experience in District Coordination meeting of the Branch Managers.