2012-06-04

June 02-04, EPSAYA public union organized the fifth 3 days training courses within the project of “Building leadership skills of young people from rural areas” for the 25 youth participants of the project in AB Gala Hotel, Lankaran city. There were 8 women and 17 men youth participants in the training courses. Besides the staff there were two trainers – Mr. Gurban Karimbayli, the expert-trainer from Baku, and Mr. Samir Akhundov, the local trainer from Lankaran in the training courses. During the training courses the staff and the participants discussed a lot of themes related to leadership skills – “Budget and fundraising, donor and grant concepts, community-based proposals / projects and fundraising for them, reporting, writing success stories, knowledge of basic computer and internet, new media - social media, relations and cooperation ways with authorities and mass media”. During the training courses the staff used different roleplaying games, interactive group works, debates, simulations, focus group discussions and presentations and more other training methods including watching to the different social wheels related to the topics throughout the entire session. In addition Ms. Katie Hackett, the representative of the U.S. Peace Corps also participated in the training courses and shared her knowledge and experience with the participants. In the end of the training courses the participants and the staff gave their views on the project and thanked to the guests including the donors – NDI and USAID Washington DC for realizing such kind of project for the youth leaders from the rural areas.