To strengthen ASPBAE‟s ability to provide ongoing and sustained high quality training and facilitation in its various areas of work, ASPBAE has organized the ASPBAE Training Institute for Empowerment and Solidarity (ASPBAE TIES). ASPBAE TIES is a programme that brings together highly experienced trainers and facilitators with a strong historical relationship with ASPBAE work, and drawn from ASPBAE‟s membership and partner organizations.
The primary objective of ASPBAE TIES (Training Institute for Empowerment and Solidarity) is to build and support a committed and competent cadre, of regional trainer-facilitators in the field of Adult Education and Life-long Learning.
ASPBAE has been endowed with a dedicated group of trainers with a range of expertise on themes relevant to Basic & Adult Education, embedded in the regional as well as global perspective. With the changing contexts and increasing demands, the need to harness and make available the existing talent within the ASPBAE membership, for enhancing and making effective the work of Life-long Learning with a strong regional perspective cannot be over-emphasised.
A Core Faculty (Robbie Guevara, Sandy Morisson, Myo Min, Jerald Joseph, Jo Hann Tan, Nani Zulminarni, Bobby Garcia, Eric Amaldas, Deben Sharma, Bernie Lovegrove) has been constituted to anchor the ASPBAE-TIES and a Reference Group within the Executive Council (Saloni Singh, Timote Violeti & Taka Miyake) will advise and steer ASPBAE-TIES.
The ASPBAE Executive Council has mandated the initiation of the following ASPBAE TIES activities:
1. An ASPBAE Regional Facilitators Training to provide skills-based training on facilitation, popular communications and participatory approaches in training and other teaching-learning processes. Participants will be drawn from ASPBAE members and partners.
2. The Regional Facilitation Training would be followed by an 18-month mentoring programme for a selected group from amongst these participants. Face to face and internet-based mentoring will be provided by ASPBAE TIES faculty and trainers as part of this mentoring programme. The arenas for on-the-job training and mentoring may be ASPBAE-related activities or events organized by the ASPBAE member organizations these individuals belong to. Towards the end of the 18 month cycle the trainees will be convened in a regional process for evaluation and feedback.
15-20 second-line trainers and facilitators are targeted to come out of this process, and be available for involvement in ASPBAE work nationally, regionally and globally.
The Core Faculty and the Reference Group is scheduled to meet in August, 2009 to operationalise the ASPBAE-TIES activities.
Reported by Anita Borkar, ASPBAE Co-ordinator, Training for Transformation
