In response to training and education needs and opportunities, as expressed by the Centre’s partner institutions as well as its scientists, the Centre has organized numerous courses on general and specialist topics related to agroforestry research and development. The Centre’s training and education staff are planning, organizing and implementing these training events in close collaboration with its scientists who are the primary resource persons for any such event. Recently, the Centre has incorporated a ‘training-of-trainers’ approach for some of its training courses to maximize the impact of agroforestry extension services. Participants in these training-of-trainers events are the Centre’s training and education alumni and partners working at national research, development, training and education institutions.
Many training and education resource persons are primarily subject matter specialists in agroforestry and take on training or teaching assignments in addition to their other routine responsibilities. Certainly most of them have rarely been exposed to the science and practice of education and it is with this audience in mind that we decided to produce a practical Toolkit that will help them in being better training organizers and resource persons.