Contract Management and Training Skills: new round of TRIALOG Training of Multipliers started in April

From 11th to 14th of April the second year of TRIALOG’s Training for Multipliers started in Vienna. This year the two-module training focuses on management of the EuropeAid Standard Contract. In-depth input and expertise on this issue was given by Angela James, who runs the BOND EC Funding Advice line. Next to the contract management part, which also included practical exercises, about half of the time of the training was dedicated to learning and improving training skills through interactive exercises. This time the group also visited two Austrian organisations with long experience with EC-funded projects: HORIZONT3000 which is implementing development cooperation projects in several African, Latin American and Asian countries and Südwind, which is active in the field of Development Education and Awareness Raising. This gave both sides the opportunity to share experiences and was much appreciated.

At the end of the four days the 12 participants from 8 countries agreed that they deepened their knowledge on the EC Standard Contract Management and that they could relate what they had learned with their own practice and experience with managing projects. Newly learned tools and methods for training they will apply before the next module in October as each of the participants will do some activities related to the Training for Multipliers in their respective countries.

Information provided by Ulrike Bey, TRIALOG