Five days TOT Workshop under NIP-UNDP Project
Five days TOT workshop was conducted at NIP under the project being run in joint partnership between National Institute of Psychology, Quaidi- Azam University and UNDP under the title "Provision of Psycho-social counseling to monsoon flood affectees in selected districts of Pakistan". The ideology is to create psychological experts that are ready to go into field for interventions with flood affectees.
The finer idea is to develop a referral system that can be activated under the banner of UNDP whenever the nation is afflicted with disaster. For this NIP has been entrusted with the task of creating psychosocial experts in all the provinces of the country. It is the intention of the project to train graduates of psychology from various psychology departments of public sector universities of all provinces to serve as the psychosocial expert. 39 participants belonging to the University of Baluchistan, Quetta; University of Sindh Jamshoro, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, University of Peshawar and from Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
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During the first phase of this project, NIP has conducted a need assessment study in the selected districts to record information on psycho-social issues of the communities including, children, adolescents, women, elderly and disabled. The report will be published soon. This TOT workshop is carried out as the second phase to build the capacity of internees. Following this, the participants will intern in selected Emergency Response NGOs for a period of 2 months.
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During the internship, the internees will build capacity building of
at least 20 NGOs, hold psychoeducation session, collect quantitative data,
case studies and will develop referral system for serious cases. It is
hoped the participants have a good learning experience during the workshop
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feel ready to become part of the NGOs working in the affected communities
and will utilize their skills effectively. In phase III, all the interns
submit their final reports to NIP. NIP will submit a consulted project
completion report to UNDP with clearly identified recommendations and
will design a curriculum. The resource person of this TOT workshop was
Prof. Dr. Anila Kamal, Ms. Raiha Aftab, Ms. Sohema Tahir and Mr. Naeem
Aslam. At the concluding ceremony of this five days intensive training
workshop, Honorable Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Masoom Yasin Zai distributed
the certificates among the participants.
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