Developmental Team Training program (DTTP)


Developmental Team Training program (DTTP)

DTTP is a training program which has simulated Woreda development models. The Woreda development plan is initiated and organized at sector level. The plan and the budget are tabled to Woreda council that constitutes multidisciplinary team and representatives of the community to ensure synergy of the sectors and ownership of the plan. The DTTP is a component of CBE and implemented in post graduate programs. The PG student in a college level is creating a team and the team encompasses a mix of disciplines. The PG students are exposed for two months in a community.

The students of different discipline in a college which formed a team review the Woreda/Kebele plan and take activities from the Kebele and plan for data analyses and intervention. The team also mobilize the community, solicits funds from the community, government and non-government sources. The DTTP program involves the community in problem identification, drawing of action plan and implementation. The participation of the community is targeted to ensure sustainability of the intervention. There is also in-built exit strategy, where the community takes over interventions. The information which was collected from the community and the interventions implemented to ameliorate societal problems are presented to the DTTP team from different colleges. This plat form is a means to share ideas from different DTTP team and cross fertilize ideas among DTTP team aroused from different colleges.