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| Ug.CLA Treasurer Opening the workshop |
Uganda Community Libraries Association (Ug.CLA) in Conjunction
with National Libraries of Uganda (NLU) and Book Aid International (BAI)
conducts a training workshop at Alcom Hotel in Kansanga.
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| Former Grant Recipient sharing experience with members |
The objectives of
workshop was to equip Librarians from different Community Libraries in Uganda with
basic librarianship skills, Community Libraries who received the grant of Transforming
Community Libraries phase 1 to share their experience with the rest of
libraries that were present and also give accountability on how they used their
grant, to announce new grant recipients of Transforming Community Libraries phase 2, to
train Community Libraries on project implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation
, Accountability and good report skills.
Among Basic Librarianship Skills were how to label, arrange books
in shelves and manage a library, Qualities of a great library, Qualities of a
great Librarian, activities that should take place the library and how to read
with children, care for them and share with them in different ways like telling
them stories, advising them and teaching them good behaviors; This is presented by Jenifer Nalwanga from NLU.
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| Mr. James from BAI , Nairobi training participants on good reporting |
Librarians were also trained
on how to implement this project of transforming libraries and early learning
literacy by
Mr. James from BAI- Nairobi.
He taught us good implementation,
monitoring & evaluation and reporting skills. Mr. James challenged grant
recipients who always like reporting about activities and out puts of the
project and forget that donors are mostly interested in short-term out comes
(Benefits) and Long term out comes (Impacts). So he taught the participants the
difference between project outputs, out comes and impacts. There fore, he advised
new recipients to consider all levels while reporting about this project and to
consistently keep records of every thing that takes place at the library.
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| Coordinator for Local Languages at Ug.CLA training participants on accountability |
On the issue of
accountability; all new recipients were given ledger books for tracking daily
incomes and expenditures at the libraries so that it is easy to give proper accountability
at the end of the project.
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| BRIC Librarian after receiving the M.O.U |
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| New grant recipients cutting a cake after signing M.O.U with Ug.CLA |
The workshop ended with
recipients of new grants for transforming community libraries receiving and
signing the memorandums of understanding Uganda Community Libraries Association (Ug.CLA) and cutting a cake.
