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This phase involves several activities to be carried out;

 Identify aims of the training program.

 State needs or problems that are expected to besolved

 Identification of the trainees. Recruiting and selecting learners is the

single most important step in any training program. This is because the

problems to be solved primarily rests on their attitude and behavior

when they are deployed for services. Quite often recruitment of

community health workers is effected through political leaders. However,

most of the time this results in failure because it is absolutely necessary

for community members to be able to trust and have confidence in the

people who are responsible for their health. This is particularly true for

traditional birth attendants. Therefore, the community members must

have an important part in choosing who is going to be trained.

 Know who the learners are. Their educational and training background

experiences they have with this problem, topic or subject, their

interests, and their social and cultural background.

• Identify resources available- time, equipment, space, trainers and
written materials including books, handouts…

• Determine the four important areas (domains) of learning going to
be changed (knowledge, belief, attitude and skill).

 Determine the teaching methods to be used depending on the targeted
domain of learning.

 Arrange living condition of the trainees and facilitators (food, lodging,

transportation, recreation, financial support).

 Determine how the learners and the program be evaluated. This may

include pre-test and post test, feedback from the trainees at the end,

follow-up for the graduates.

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