On the 20-26th March 2012, YOURS travelled to Oman to run a ‘Training of Facilitators’ for Youth and Road Safety workshops with young leaders in Oman. The event was organized in collaboration with Accident Care Oman and was conducted over four intensive days of training and development.
Four participants came together in Oman to become trained facilitators and run their own youth and road safety workshops with young people.
The overall objective of the Training of Facilitators was to develop the capacity of young individuals to design and deliver Youth and Road Safety Workshops.
The specific objectives of the training of facilitators workshop were to enable participants to:
- Understand the concepts of peer education and related peer-led health education methodologies.
- Acquire accurate information about road traffic injuries, especially the factors influencing youth involvement in road traffic crashes.
- Develop leadership, communication, and public speaking skills.
- Acquire the skills to facilitate a range of interactive methodologies used in Youth and Road Safety Workshops.
- Acquire basic knowledge in Youth and Road Safety Workshops design.
The training was interactive and challening enabling participants to challenge their own beliefs and build on their own skills.
By offering a training of facilitators, we are able to create a sustainable solution for youth and road safety to be passed on via a peer-to-peer message in a particular country and region. When training young facilitators, these youth leaders can, becasue of being immersed in the culture and customs of a country, adapt their designing of training to the particular needs of the youth cohort that they will train. By empowering young people to become facilitators, we know that the young people develop both personally and professionally and largely develop their own capacities as well as potentially save many young lives.
YOURS would like to thank Accident Care Oman for trusting us with their facilitators and looking forward to continue our collaboration in the future.
The following topics were covered during the Training:
- Peer Education and Behavior Change
- Fundamentals of Human Learning
- Role of a Facilitator
- Communication Skills
- Scope of the Global Road Safety Problem
- Youth and Road Traffic Injuries
- Understanding Road Safety: How injuries happen
- Key Risk Factor: Speed
- Key Risk Factor: Non-use of Seatbelts
- Key Risk Factor: Distracted Driving
- Designing Road Safety Workshops for Young People
Program Officer Ms Nellie Ghusani designed the Training of the Facilitators training.
Participants were incredibly energetic and excited to begin desiging their own workshops, participant Ms Fatima Hamayon expressed, ‘I would like to thank YOURS for the amazing workshop, I gained lots of knowledge within a few days and I am looking forward to putting it into practice’.
Evaluation for the workshop illustrated a big increase in knowledge about the workshop as well as rating the content and learning process highly. On the eve of our Youth and Road Safety Action Kit launch, we anticipate reaching more young people through similar workshops.
YOURS is committed to the peer-to-peer approach and by training facilitators through their active participation, can reach other young people much more efficiently.