MA’AN’S TRAINING PROGRAMS

 Since its inception in 1989, MA’AN has had extensive experience and success in designing, developing and delivering training and developmental programs and has trained more than 33,150 people for more than 25,700 hours of training. 

 As a vocational and developmental institution, Capacity Building, Institutional Building and Organizational Development Programs along with training have been core components of MA’AN’s activities since its establishment in 1989.  Our training methods serve to foster new knowledge and skills while at the same time building new levels of self-awareness and confidence.  

 MA’AN believes that training must be practical and based on people’s own experiences in order to achieve the aims of self-reliance and empowerment.  To this end, MA’AN’s training courses are based on participatory methods, using group discussions, role-playing, individual case studies and the latest audio-visual participatory technology such as CD-ROMs and video-recordings of class sessions.  Furthermore, we strongly believe that training does not end once the course is completed.  MA’AN is committed to follow up and further training being applied to ensure that the knowledge, skills and attitudes have indeed been influenced and developed.  At MA’AN, evaluation on the impact of each training component is important for redesigning the approaches, contents and the various techniques used.

MA’AN’s Training Methods

 
MA’AN’s training methods serve to foster new knowledge and skills while at the same time confront counterproductive attitudes and build new levels of self-awareness and confidence.  We believe that training must be practical and based on people’s own experiences in order to achieve the aims of self-reliance and empowerment.  To this end, MA’AN’s training courses are based on participatory methods, using group discussion, role-playing, individual case studies and the latest audio-visual participatory technology such as CD-ROM and video-recording of class sessions.

MA’AN’s training curricula are designed by our specialized trainers to fit the training needs of our beneficiary target groups, which include but are not limited to the following:

►Women	►NGOs
►Charitable societies	►Farmers
►Entreprises	►Agricultural Engineers
►Entrepreneurs	►Extension Workers
►Children	►PNA

 

 

 

 

MA’AN’s Training Programs place emphasis and a high priority on Institutional Development and Community Development.

 

Capacity and Institutional Building Training Programs

One of MA’AN’s many missions is to strengthen and develop NGOs, grassroots organizations and charitable societies with prominence placed on human resource development.

 

Small, local NGOs, grassroots organizations and charitable societies have daily contact with their community, and thus are intimately acquainted with the developmental needs and priorities of those with whom they live and work.  By empowering these small NGOs, the communities they serve are strengthened.  MA’AN targets small NGOs, grassroots organizations and assists civil society organizations (CSOs) in becoming more effective and legitimate vehicles for citizen participation in public decision-making and government oversight.  This is based on improving their financial management systems, increasing their internal democratic governance, and in strengthening their advocacy skills on behalf of citizens' and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in public decision-making.  MA’AN’s institutional building courses are intended to instill skills, knowledge and attitudes deemed necessary for these participants’ to be successful in their role and responsibilities within their own communities. 

At MA’AN our Institutional Building Training Programs are designed for junior and senior level administrators and managers of projects and organizations.  Small NGOs and grassroots organizations are also highly encouraged to participate in these programs.  Several general areas of expertise and courses offered through this program are listed below: 

• General Management Skills

• Effective Management Skills for Directors/Managers

• Project Cycle Management

• Office Management Skills

• Performance Appraisal

• Effective Communication Skills

• Effective Negotiation Skills

• Upgrading Secretarial Skills

• Report and Proposal Writing

• Financial Analysis

• Costing and Pricing

• Effective Marketing Skills

• Public Relations

• Strategic Planning

• Time Management

• Team Building Skills

• Train the Trainers

• Library Classification

• Language Training for Specific Purposes

• Feasibility Studies and Market Research

• Loans Management

• Finance for Non-Financial Managers

• Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Planning and Managing Human Resources

• Cooperative Management

• Basic Accounting and Bookkeeping

• Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations

• How to Start Your Own Business

• How to Improve Your Own Business

Institutional building would not be complete without computer literacy and English language training.  MA’AN’s computer literacy courses are held in our own computer training laboratory, complete with a network facility.  Here participants from various target groups are trained in general computer skills, or computer skills related to specific training subjects.

 

• Microsoft Office (Access, Excel,  Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Internet and Email

• MS Project  

 

 

 

 

 

MA’AN’s Language for Specific Purposes courses aim to upgrade the skills of employees, and to meet specific training needs for unemployed women and men necessary for securing employment.  MA’AN specialists have designed “English for Specific Purposes” courses, with each course having outcomes directly linked to competencies necessary in specific fields.

 

• English for Waiters                        

• English for Receptionists

• English for Secretarial and Administrative Work

• English for Executive Secretaries and Administrators

• English for Agronomists

• Effective Writing Skills

• Conversational English (intermediate and advanced)

 

On-site Consultative Services

MA’AN also offers on-site consultative services to local governmental and non-governmental organizations.  After conducting a needs assessment, a MA’AN specialist will design an agenda of training workshops or consultations created for the organization’s particular needs.  MA’AN’s institutional building program will prepare them with the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to be able to enter into the global marketplace.  MA’AN’s aim is the successful elaboration of effective and efficient Palestinian Organizations having the ability to operate competitively and at international standards.  MA’AN‘s areas of consultancy expertise are:

►Fiscal and Financial Planning and Management     

►Statistic Investment Planning

►Costs and Tariffs for Services

►Institutional Options for Service Delivery

►Social and Economic Studies

►Organizational Design

►Economic Development Planning

►Needs Assessment

►Implementing Computer Systems for Financial Planning and Management

Women’s Training Programs

MA’AN’s Women’s Training Programs are within the majority of our training program sectors in order to place women and their issues at the heart of our work.

The Women’s Training Program cooperates with local grassroots women’s committees and women’s organizations in order to design training courses and projects relevant to women’s actual needs.  In the spirit of MA’AN’s participatory training approach, these courses and projects are practically oriented and pertinent to women’s everyday lives and interests.  Since our establishment in 1989 till now, women participation in our programs is comprised of more than 55% of our total participation rate.

At MA’AN, the Women’s Training Program agenda offers courses in four main areas: business and management skills; vocational training, permaculture and food processing and quality control.  We also offer vocational training courses for women which include but are not limited to the following:

• Knitting and Sewing Machine Maintenance

• Curtain Designing

• House Maintenance (carpentry, painting, electrical repair, plumbing, decoration)

In line with MA’AN’s commitment to sustainable human-centered development is our promotion of permaculture and the agricultural and environmental practices. 

Permaculture Training Program

“Permaculture” describes a stable ecology in which human communal needs for food, fiber and energy are integrated within a diverse and stable environmental system.  Permacultural strategies create sustainable community agricultural systems that address economic, social and cultural needs by taking into account the geographical and ecological needs, limits and resources of the local environment.  MA’AN offers the following permaculture courses:

 

• Permaculture Design Course

• Nursery Management and Propagation

• Composting Techniques

• Integrated Pest Management

• Organic Farming

• Water Management: Water Harvesting, Conservation & Recycling

• Soil Management and Pest Control

• Medicinal Herbs

• Home Garden Design

• Local Community Development

• Water Treatment with Reed Bed System

 

Food Processing and Quality Control Training Programs

Relevant to sustainable agricultural development is the training in food processing and quality control which are based on participatory training methods and which primarily stress the values of self-reliance.  MA’AN’s training courses in this program are both practically and theoretically oriented, directed towards farmers and women working in small scale agricultural production projects and factories in the food industry.  Women are trained in skills that enable them to develop their own micro income-generating food processing enterprises.  In addition, women learn how to effectively process household surplus for domestic consumption.  Women’s organizations are trained in new food processing techniques, enabling them to promote these methods within their own grassroots constituencies. 

MA’AN has also worked with factories, through workshops and/or training courses on improving their standards in the following areas:

 

• Correct usage of food additives

• Hygienic production practices

• Processing Fruits, Vegetables and Sauces (Pickling, Drying, Freezing…)

• Processing Dairy Products

• Quality Control

 

“MA’AN strongly believes and upholds that the development of the Palestinian human resource is at the core of sustainable development, and sustainable development places the needs of the individual and the community at the heart of the developmental process.”