 These courses teach techniques of communication, some types of
diagnosis, and useful formats for collecting and processing information received from
farmers. Evaluation models are also constructed in class and evaluations practiced in the
field with farmers. We offer two types of courses:
Courses on CIALs (Local Agricultural Research Committees)
These 10-day-long courses teach some of the skills that the participants
will need to form CIALs. Each course comprises 50 percent theory on CIAL formation and 50
percent practice (i.e., forming a CIAL). The participants learn the different steps that
the research committee carries out and, once trained, each is committed to forming a CIAL
at his or her work place.
The IPRA Project monitors, for a year, those people who attended the CIAL
course to assist them, where needed, with the theoretical phase.
Training Trainers
 These courses are targeted at those people who stood out during
the formation of a CIAL, and are aimed at strengthening these people’s abilities so
that they themselves can organize other CIAL courses within their institutions, thereby
increasing the number of CIALs.
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