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Item Report of the Training on Participatory Methodology for Community Development- Phase 11(PRIA, 1992-11-16) Aurat FoundationAll the participants were to reach Aurat Foundation. Lahore office by the afternoon of the 16th after a long wait we all left for the training Lahore. venue which was about an hours drive from On reaching there we tried informally get to know the participants as the trainers were meeting the participants for the first time. Before dinner in the process of getting to know each other participants shared their expectations of Phase-II training. As the trainers were new and as there were very few participants tried to talk and dispel anxieties related to this situation and assured each other that we would try our best to create facilitate a learning environment and process.Item Participatory Training for Promotion of Social Development(0000) Acharya, Binoy; Verma, ShaliniDuring the last one decade or so, "training" has become a common activity in all development projects. But it needs to be recognized that the "most extensive and far reaching learning has proceeded with no trainers at all or with the trainers involved marginally and from a distance." If learning can happen without training, why is so much energy being put into training in general and participatory training in particular? Before we address this question, perhaps it is most appropriate to state that during the last decade, training has become reduced to pre-planned technique-happy mass of simulations and role plays without any contribution to critical thinking and generation of understanding and awareness. In certain development circles, the practitioners opt for doses of trainings if a programme is not doing well. There are great expectations from training "as if knowledge and action are related".