Pijon Nongmin, Doctor Baker’s Organization, Bangladesh What are the key learnings from ILDC? 1. Importance of Sharing One of my biggest takeaways from the training was the importance of openly sharing our thoughts. During the Course, any decisions were made by respecting each participant’s feelings and ideas. As a representative of my organization, I have always […]
Nelson Jose Fatima Alves, PARCIC What surprised you during the course? The participants in charge of the next day’s session prepare the session, plan the schedule, and manage the facilitation on the actual day. In terms of daily life as well, the participants take care of tasks such as washing dishes and cleaning, assigning roles […]
Lal Bahadur Mahara, FAYA-Nepal What motivated you to join the course? There were three main reasons. First, when I read the course outline, I saw that it was a broad leadership course aimed at building sustainable communities through a participatory approach, but it also mentioned that there would be no theoretical lectures by external resource […]
John A-aron Manangkil Lumbab, Training and Consultancy Coordinator,DMSF-IPHC Aaron participated in ILDC in 2016. This time, he joined ILDC 2025 as one of the coordinators. He started by finalizing the application forms, then took part in selecting participants, and finally contributed to the actual management of the training program. We asked his experiences and learning […]
Himal Gaire, CMC-Nepal What is the most significant learning? I learned about the logical thinking. Many of my counterparts are high-level people like government authorities. When I do advocacy, I used to speak a lot. Through the “Fact or Opinion” practice and debate activity that we did during the training course, I found that the […]
Syed Abdus Salam, ILDC2023, Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) What is different from last year when being a participant? As a coordinator, I have started my journey of ILDC 2024 with the team by developing the course outline, finalizing application forms and intensive working during the participant selection process. I had to think to […]
Kshamata Khadka, KOPILA – Nepal What’s new about participatory approach? Even before I participated in ILDC, I already had some idea about “participatory approach”, since some alumni in my organization including the Founder and the Executive Director were using the term. However, I did not know how to do “participatory” in the community activities. In […]
Md Abayed Ullah, Pulse Bangladesh Society My motivation for applying to ILDC2024 I’ve been part of a volunteer organization/CBO since my student life, and in my professional life, I work as an NGO staff member focused on sustainable community development. With this background, I felt the ILDC course was the ideal opportunity to meet my […]
Ms. Khanitta Saeiew (ILDC 2019) The National Health Commission Office (NHCO), Thailand Q: What motivated you to co-organize Chika-Chika on Health Assembly? When I learned Tamil Nadu Government implementing Health Assembly (HA), I felt wonderful. One reason is that India is the first country among other governments to inquire about HA from us. We are […]
Thadshayini Thavachchelvam, Sri Lanka “One of the remarkable aspects of ILDC 2023 was the autonomy in setting our training goals. Drawing from the challenges faced by our respective youth groups, we wove each objective into our training plans. In fact, we could not handle some plans as we prepared.? Therefore, we discussed and changed it […]