Building on CDAIS training experience, this manual has been developed to support the activities of the CDAIS project. This manual is a resource for the training of National Innovation Facilitators (NIFs) across all 8 countries. The objective of the training is to strengthen the NIFs’ facilitation skills and their ability to carry out Capacity Needs Assessments (CNAs) in agricultural innovation niche partnerships.

 The materials were prepared in English by a CDAIS working group comprising staff of the various CDAIS implementing partners from Agrinatura and FAO, piloted in one English-speaking country (with valuable input from the CDAIS country team), then made available to the other seven countries. 

The manual is not a blueprint for use in precisely the same way across all countries, rather it is a general framework and approach around a series of concepts, tools and techniques. The manual was reviewed, modified and adapted to the national context of each country and translated where necessary to an appropriate language before delivery e.g. European languages such as French, Portuguese, Spanish and national languages in the 8 pilot countries.

Elements of the manual, such as the facilitation tools, may also be useful in other contexts and the modular design allows for parts of it to be extracted and adapted for use as necessary.

 Download manual from TAPipedia: http://www.tapipedia.org/sites/default/files/cdais_manual_2017-07-21.pdf 

Source: http://cdais.net/2017/07/24/discover-the-trainers-manual/