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Indonesia
Indonesian
Farmer IPM Trainers have continued to expand their activities despite the
completion of the Indonesian IPM Training Project in late 1999. The
Farmer IPM Trainers organised a national congress of IPM farmers in 1999.
One of the decisions of the congress was to establish a national FFS
alumni organization. Several hundred Farmer IPM Trainers spread
across Indonesia have provided the leadership in getting this organisation
up and running. The alumni organisation, known as the Indonesian IPM
Farmers Association, has had a very busy initial year with thousands of
alumni participating in its activities across the country. The
following summarises a few of their activities.
Provincial
level congresses have been held throughout the country. The
congresses were organised by local branches of the national association
to:
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Strengthen
the Indonesian IPM Farmers Association at provincial, district and
sub-district level. |
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Identify
and agree upon issues that might serve as the basis for advocacy
efforts. |
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Discuss
the issue of farmer rights and lobby local and provincial officials
concerning farmer rights. |
The association has
used a grant of nearly US $40,000 (mediated by a local NGO) to further
strengthen its membership base by means of a series of organising
workshops held in selected districts across 11 provinces.
The association
organised a nation-wide training programme with technical support from
the FAO Community IPM Programme. The goal of the training was to
improve the effectiveness of Farmer IPM Trainers in responding to
local needs. Three week-long workshops were held in each of 11
provinces. Each workshop focused on one of three different
topics. Workshop topics were advocacy, strengthening the quality
of FFS implementation, and farmers doing science. In total,
around a thousand Farmer IPM Trainers attended these workshops.
Participants attended the workshops as two-person teams and during the
workshops each team developed an action plan for follow-up on their
workshop in their home districts.
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In
an exchange supported by the regional programme, Indonesian Farmer IPM
Trainers in Central Java played host to a group of Farmer IPM Trainers from
Bangladesh. The Bangladesh group wanted to learn more about Community
IPM activities in Indonesia. They visited the sub-district of
Kaligondang (a case study on farmer activities in Kaligondang is available
under 'Documents to Download' at this website). The Bangladesh farmers
were very interested in the field ecology research and plant breeding
activities of Farmer IPM Trainers in Kaligondang.
Nepal
A
relatively new Community IPM programme, Nepal is moving quickly into the
development of a cadre of Farmer IPM Trainers. This year they will
conduct five Farmer IPM Trainer TOT’s and Farmer IPM Trainers will organise
31 FFS. The participants in Farmer IPM Trainer TOT’s are FFS alumni.
The goal of Farmer IPM Trainer TOT ‘s in Nepal is to develop the
facilitation and leadership skills of FFS alumni. The vision is that the
participants will not only organise FFS, but also provide leadership at the
village level in the development of local IPM programmes. The following
summarises the curriculum of the TOT held in Birgani, Nepal. The summary
is based on the report of two members of the FAO Community IPM Asian Trainers
team who helped in the design of the curricula for Nepal TOT’s and
participated in the Birgani TOT. A complete report on the Birgani TOT is
available under 'Documents to Download' at this website.
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