TRAINING PROGRAMME

Sustainability

HRDI has been asked what its plans for sustainability are. In response it has answered quite simply “each one teach one”.

For HRDI this concept/idea has meant working with partner organisations in order to recruit two committed people. These two people then commit to serving the vulnerable groups in society and at the same time to integrating what they have learnt within the partner institutions for at least two years after the training. As part of the integration process, the idea is that they will in turn train others who then themselves train others, and so on.

This form of sustainability entails certain things. Firstly, the students must have formal relationships with the partner organisation. They thus need to be formally employed with contracts, have established plans for operations, and have the skills to secure funding after the funding grants from HRDI cease. Secondly, the partner organisations need to have succession plans in place in the event that the trainee was to leave the organisation. It is also vital that the student receives support, mentorship and assistance, as well as resources (personnel and funding) from the partner organisation.

In the long term HRDI as an organisation might not need to exist if this process works.

During the first phase of HRDI’s operations (2006-2008), integration occurred in most partner institutions but not all.