ADVANCED TRAINING

Exposure and dialogue programmes (EDPs) can be used in a targeted way as instruments for staff development. An EDP strengthens the participants’ technical and social competence and gives them knowledge and insights that they can relate to their fields of work and translate into concrete strategies for action.

Experts from development co-operation organisations can learn in the field about successful, functioning approaches to effective poverty alleviation and development support. These examples give them inspiration for shaping their professional tasks.

Representatives of church organisations can use exposure and dialogue programmes for learning in the universal church so as to gain new ideas for their tasks in parishes, dioceses and associations.

EDPs allow participants to get a deeper insight into the local culture, work practices and way of life, thus fostering better understanding and hence better co-operation between the participating organisations.


Examples of further training:

• KfW Entwicklungsbank and the DEG use exposure and dialogue programmes in a targeted fashion as an instrument for staff development.
  
• Training of staff from Renovabis as part of the EDP “Poverty and Migration” in Albania (2004).
  
• The EDP “Community Building and Spirituality” (Malaysia, Singapore, 2004) offered many different ideas for pastoral work in Germany.
  
• 14 staff from the Catholic university pastoral services and other church institutions benefited from learning experiences in the EDP in 2003 in Guatemala, which they can use in their teaching work.
  
• Training of staff from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh at rural savings banks in Germany.
  
• Further training of junior managers at SEWA within the framework of internal exposure and dialogue programmes.
  
• Further training of Albanian managerial staff from savings and loan banks at cooperative banks and self-administrative bodies in Western Europe (Switzerland, France and Germany).