Green Colleges

Course Curriculum/Content

Short Term Training (15 days - 1 month), Medium Duration Training (3 - 6 months) and village-based training following Farmer Field School/ extension approach will be offered at the Green Colleges. Course curriculum and the content for the green colleges will be developed by the Incubator. The courses/ curriculum will be developed by the Incubator around the themes Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Fishery, Non-Timber Forest Produces, Agro-Food Processing & Value addition, Agro Equipment and Solar repairing services, Alternative Energy, etc. The centre will also develop the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to be followed by all Green Colleges. India GC project has already developed 22 green courses and SOP, and the incubator will work with curriculum development Experts and CTEVT to assess if these can also be adapted to Nepalese context. If CTEVT has already certified course of certain green trades, project will follow that, and all new courses has to be certified/ accredited by CTEVT system.

The Green Colleges will be set up as sustainable institutional models that can offer skill building to small-holder farmers and the rural youth. The program upgrades existing training facilities of green college partner organizations (mostly technical schools and colleges). The partner institutes have their own building, accounting system etc and project will support to strengthen their in-house capacity through equipment and materials support vital for green skill transfers. The project will initially support to ensure the proper provision of green skill trainers and facilitators.

The incubator provides institutional support services towards certification of the courses and accreditation of the colleges in collaboration with the CTEVT. The Incubator will also support the green colleges towards accessing funds of the government earmarked for training rural youth and will also support in connecting with banks and forward and backward market linkages. The green SMEs established by green colleagues will better be connected with different market segments at regional, national and export levels. The incubator will facilitate and act as bridge between SMEs products and high-end market consumers.

Training Curriculum:

• 1. Bee Keeping Training Course
• 2. Mushroom Production Training Course
• 3. Poultry Farming Training Course
• 4. Village Animal Health Worker Training
• 5. Vegetable Production Training
• 6. Goat Farming Training Course

Training and post training mentoring of youth on rural trades with high potentials

Trainings will be offered on six basic themes: (1) Sustainable Agriculture, (2) Fishery (3) Animal Husbandry, (4) Non-Timber Forest Produces, (5) Agro-Food processing and value addition and (6) Agro Equipment and Solar repairing services and Alternative Energy. All trainings combine theoretical lessons with practical assignments. The components include:

• Longer courses for people with high potential to act as multipliers in the community.
• Shorter trainings to motivate youth with no formal education.
• Post training mentoring has been identified as a success factor in ongoing Welthungerhilfe programs and includes follow up, adjusting business plans, accessing banks loans and linkages with government programmes.
• Organize trainees into producer organization or self-help groups (SHGs) for value addition, common production/marketing, and community empowerment.

SIFS Farmer Field School (FFS) – Participatory Learning and Action

The green college will mobilize its in-house trainers/ facilitators as well as champion Trainees to provide the green skills in the field (farm) directly through FFS approach. These green trades/ skills include integrated farming practices, mushroom cultivation, composting, vermicompost preparation, etc. In total, 2,516 farmers will be trained based on their need and demand. These farmers will also be certified by the green colleges. These farmers are organized into 90 groups and in total 1,800 FFS session will be conducted.

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Trainings Associated to Green Colleges