International Development Training Day
An afternoon of panel debate, training workshops, and skill-share will give you everything you need to fund, run, and participate in responsible overseas volunteering projects.
« When » Sunday 1:30-5:30pm, March 4, 2012
« Where » Queen's Building, Emmanuel College
« Registration » Sign up HERE
« Cost » FREE!
« Programme »
1:00-1:30 Late Registration & Sign-In
1:30-3:00 Keynote Panel : The Value of Volunteering Overseas
3:00-3:20 Tea Break
3:20-4:20 Parallel Workshops I:
1. Fundraising for Your Cause
2. Monitoring and Evaluating Your Project
3. Campaigning and Advocacy for International Development
4:20-4:30 Tea Break
4:30-5:30 Parallel Workshops II:
1. Fundraising for Your Cause
2. Monitoring and Evaluating Your Project
3. Campaigning and Advocacy for International Development
4. Skill-Share Session
« Details »
Keynote Panel Debate: The Value of Volunteering Overseas
This hour long panel debate will open an afternoon of training for organisations and students who work in development overseas. It aims to focus on different perspectives of the experience - exploring the value for the volunteer, the organisation (whether large or small), the local community and the International Development sector as a whole. The debate will focus on, but not limited to, student volunteers. We hope the debate will raise questions amongst students and organisations and naturally lead to the training workshops.
Panelists
Shiraz Vira - Coordinator of Camvol
Andrew Lamb - Chief Executive of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Douglas Hull - Cambridge University Student and founder of CUHELP
Aileen Cameron - Former Intern for PEPY
Chair
Ian Sanderson - Chairman and a founding trustee of Afrinspire
Workshop: Fundraising for Your Cause
Does your project have a sustainable model of funding? We will talk through the merits of grant applications, sponsorship and membership fees in relation to funding development projects and discuss the steps you need to take to be successful.
Trainer
Catherine Kemp and Ruth Whateley - Student Hubs
Workshop: Monitoring and Evaluating Your Project
What has your project achieved? Was your project any good? What difference did it make? Assessing impact is vital. The session will introduce concepts to help you understand how to tackle this. Methods for monitoring inputs and outputs will be discussed. We will also look at evaluations, progress reports, and learning techniques.
Trainer
Andrew Lamb - Chief Executive of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Workshop: Campaigning and Advocacy for International Development Projects
Do you want to make your programme impacts more sustainable? Advocacy campaigning is all about changing the policies, practices and attitudes that function as obstacles to development and poverty eradication. In this session well be looking at why advocacy campaigning is so important and focus on how to build a successful advocacy campaign.
Trainer
Andrew Fearn - National Coordinator of Aegis Students
Skill-Share Session
This skill-sharing session offers a chance for groups and individuals to share their experiences, problems and ideas within the field of international development. It will be an informal and light-hearted session, giving a valuable chance for groups to exchange and learn from other groups working in the same areas, and perhaps even setting up a platform for collaborative work in the future.
Facilitator
Daniel Macmillen - Cambridge Hub Int'l Development Support Officer
« About the Panelists and Trainers »
Aileen Cameron - Former Intern for PEPY
Aileen was a voluntary intern for PEPY, an education non-profit organisation based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for 6 months in 2010. Her prior experience with the organisation included two visits to Cambodia to learn about the projects that PEPY ran, and promotion of the organisation's work through fundraising events and publications aimed at the English teaching community in Japan.
Andrew Fearn - National Coordinator of Aegis Students
Andy runs Aegis Students in the UK which involves raising awareness of genocide and mass atrocities amongst young people and students, as well as equipping them with the advocacy skills and confidence to become active in genocide prevention. Andy has a Masters degree in Human Rights and before joining Aegis worked for the Labour Party as a campaigns organiser.
Douglas Hull - Cambridge University Student, founder of CU HELP
Douglas is a third year Geographer at Emma. After his first year in Cambridge he volunteered as an English teacher in Nepal through CU ELST, a society which sends students to Tibetan origin communities in India and Nepal. In his second year he became president of this society, and this year he founded a new student society (CU HELP) to send more volunteers to Nepali-based charities - Helambu Education and Livelihood Project.
Catherine Kemp - Student Hubs
Catherine is the Cambridge Hub manager, overseeing all activities of the Cambridge Hub including our budget and fundraising. She has experience fundraising for a number of local charities and community projects, particularly in grant funding. She runs training tutorials for societies each term and also contributes to Student Hubs' work in the area of International Development at a national level.
Andrew Lamb - Chief Executive of Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Andrew's first taste of engineering in international development was at a talk run by a fledging student club in Cambridge called Engineers Without Borders. He was a second year undergraduate in 2002, and very soon got involved in fundraising and became Co-Chief Executive as a volunteer in his final year. After graduating, Andrew worked with the University of Cambridge Office for Community Affairs and co-founded the Humanitarian Centre in his spare time. He worked for more than three years with disaster relief organisation RedR, including working at their office in Nairobi. He was the technical editor of the world's first UNESCO Engineering Report and a Visiting Lecturer for the EngineeringUK. He is a director of the Appropedia Foundation which runs the Appropedia website - a sustainability wiki. Andrew became Chief Executive of EWB-UK in December 2008 after winning a World of Difference grant from the Vodafone Foundation.
Ian Sanderson - Chairman and a founding trustee of Afrinspire
Ian Sanderson is the Chairman and a founding trustee of Afrinspire. Ian is a Chartered Civil Engineer with specialism in water and irrigation engineering. He has also worked in ICT and Facilities within a global pharmaceutical company and carries a range of skills and knowledge from commercial business. Ian has initiated many social start-up projects, community groups and community initiatives and is currently a trustee of three UK charities. Ian has lived and worked in Swaziland and also been a regular visitor to East Africa during the past 13 years. Ian currently volunteers as a development consultant with Afrinspire.
Shiraz Vira - Coordinator of Camvol
Shiraz Vira studied at Mumbai University and is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where she studied Social and Political Sciences. She founded Camvol (Cambridge Volunteers) in 2006 which sends students to volunteer with development organisations in India.
Ruth Whateley - Student Hubs
As International Development Coordinator for Students Hubs Ruth has experience in supporting the development of training resources and capacity building for student international volunteering groups across the UK. She has worked within Student Hubs on fundraising and communications work as well as supporting funding proposal writing whilst volunteering with a student-led NGO in Rwanda during her time at university.
« Questions? » E-mail Victoria at training@cambridgehub.org
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