Aurat Foundation’s Lahore office, under its LISTEN project, organized a 5-day ‘Training of Trainers (ToT) on Community Leadership and Accountability’, from 17th to 21st February 2014, at Hotel Crown Plaza, Lahore. This training workshop was attended by women leaders from 18 districts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ms Uzma Yaqoob and Mr Asmat Ullah from Ask Development were the resource persons of the TOT.  

The training aimed at apprising the participants on human right, community governance, social accountability, gender justice and community action research with specific attention to knowledge, attitudes and skill enhancement. The training program was designed to build the participants’ capacities as well as to equip them with the material to be used during the downstream trainings by these potential trainers, to the grass root level, coddle the cadre of 1200 prospective trainers in the targeted district under the project.

Training program was an effective mix of lectures, plenary discussions, group works, role plays, documentaries, video clips and case studies.