The Staff Skill Building Library consists of training modules designed to strengthen skills of staff implementing or supporting community-based violence against women (VAW) prevention programs.
The Staff Skill Building Library is designed particularly for organizations using the SASA! Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV, but can be used by anyone working to mobilize their community to prevent VAW. The Library was created because, in doing technical assistance to organizations around the world on VAW prevention, Raising Voices realized that organization staff members often need specific skills in order to create high quality, strategic community mobilization efforts that make an impact. The Staff Skill Building Library provides additional training materials to those existing for community activists in SASA! The modules are designed for staff in a variety of topics related to successful VAW prevention.
Modules from the library follow SASA!’s phases of community mobilization, but can be used as needed, depending on current staff assets and needs. Because the Staff Skill Building Library is competency based, each module includes options for validation of participant learning. This can greatly assist in planning staff training and mentoring efforts strategically, to build effective activists and programs to prevent VAW.
Read more about participatory ways to ensure participants learned what the facilitator intended for them to learn, and plan staff skill building sessions strategically: Training Validation Methods: A how-to guide for assessing participant learning.
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