No matter how much time and effort went into all the other aspects related to a training event, as described in this training Toolkit, ultimately, the success of any such event will depend largely on how well this is organized and implemented.
There are no hard or fast rules in organizing and implementing short training courses and each event can be expected to be quite different from a previous one. Common sense and flexibility must prevail at all times. A lot will depend on the available resources, both human and financial, that can be deployed. This topic broadly represents the experiences of the World Agroforestry Centre in organizing short training courses, conferences and workshops. The training events organized by the Centre are mainly designed for international participants/professionals who have already a specific and solid technical background. These training events are therefore quite different in nature from those in a more rural setting (e.g. for a group of small scale farmers wishing to improve their output through diversification in crop growing). Although, the major principles for organizing training activities remain the same, it is clear that the proposed steps and activities described in the following chapter are based on the experience of the Centre. No doubt, these will apply in other settings, provided that the local circumstances are considered. Therefore they will need to be specified and adapted for each particular group-training event.