INFO. AND TRAINING SESSION

Description of the tool

Since the session will take place in Upper Egypt, we decided to use a famous figure to represent youth in the village, in order to break the ice and to facilitate dialogue. We chose Bakkar, who is a famous cartoon figure in Egypt, because he is a very popular positive figure and liked by most people. We chose to use flipcharts mainly because we wanted to tailor the presentation to fit the cartoon figure we are using and to make it more informal.
1. First we will introduce ourselves and explain the purpose of the visit by introducing the story of Bakkar, who decided to send the Ministry of Youth a letter to express his wish to travel to see different parts of the world and learn to help his villagers be committed to environmental issues. (Kareem)
2. Next we will explain the purpose of the session (IDLE). (Nadia)
3. The values and objectives of the youth programme will be explained on a flip chart.
4. A brief description will be given about the three Actions mainly by giving a concrete example about a definite project in the environmental field.
5. By playing a game we will be try to provide an intercultural dimension to the session. The audience will try to guess the countries whose pictures will be presented to them in a power point slide-show.
6. We will attempt next to provide an interactive exercise focusing around the environmental issue. We will draw a line on the floor and ask all the audience to stand on this line. Some statements will be read to the audience and they will be asked to move to either side of the line; to the right if they agree with the statements and to the left if they don’t agree. They can change places if they are convinced by the arguments of the other group.
7. Afterwards the audience will be given a chance to ask questions that were not answered in the presentation.
8. The last part will be the evaluation which will be accomplished through a flipchart. The audience will be asked to write what they liked, what they didn’t like and what’s next?

TOOL TOPICS
Introductory Flip charts with Bakkar.
One flip chart for the objectives of this training session.
One flip chart for the philosophy of the Programme.
4 flip charts to explain the three Actions.
1 flip chart for the expectations.
1 flip chart for the evaluations.
General statements printed on A4 paper.
One power point slide-show showing photos from 12 different Euro-Med countries.