Appendix 1: Training sessions covered by ARECOP module

No.	Session	Duration	Major Objectives	Methods
1	Introductions	1: 00	· to facilitate introductions	Concentric circles mapping
2	Goals and expectations	0: 45	· to make sure trainer and trainee expectations match	Individual exercise sharing
3	Framework and content	0: 45	· to clarify the objectives/expected outputs of the training	Lecturette posters of training process
4	Principless of design	1: 00	· to use pre-workshop exercise information and participants' experience and knowledge and link these with stove designs and stove projects	Brainstorm transfer to index cards Pair work Sharing
5	Raw materials	1: 00	· to provide guidelines for choosing stove materials	Lecture with transparencies
6	Promotion and benefits	1: 00	· to brainstorm possible benefits, indirect and direct, from an improved cookstove and project	Consumer and seller game discussion
7	Combustion stations and processing	2: 00	" to fulfill participants expectations for technical information before addressing gender and field exercise 1	Short introduction with transparency Experiment stations Question and answer based lecture
8	Gender	1: 30	· to challenge the idea that gender is only related to women	Drawing and gallery viewing Lecturette with transparencies
9	Overview of mud stove construction	0: 45	· to explain the purpose of mud stove construction	Lecturette with transparencies
10	Mud stove construction	4: 00	· to construct different mud stove designs	Stove construction
11	Guidelines for field exercise 1: community context	1: 00	· to explain the purpose of the field exercise	Observing and listening games Working through examples
12	Field exercise 1: community context	2: 30	· to observe and collect real information about the community context from a case study community based on new understanding	Field exercise
13	Stove selection stage 1	2: 30	· to critically analyze information gathered to determine parameters of a stove design and stove project	Group work Poster making Presentations Question and answer, discussion
14	Heat transfer and heat loss	1: 30	· to provide information on the mechanisms of heat transfer, maximizing heat use in a stove design and decreasing heat loss	Lecture with written exercise sheets
15	Kitchen	2: 00	· to illustrate the importance of the kitchen in assessment and the consequences of ignoring the kitchen environment	Role plays lecturette
16	Combustion quiz	1: 00	· to get participants to use basic combustion concepts to make decisions about stove design	Game show quiz with one-minute lectures when necessary
17	Stove parts	1: 00	· to give an overview of the stove parts	Lecture with transparencies quiz
18	Stove types	1: 45	· to get participants integrating technical and social information in modifying or choosing stove designs for certain social contexts (some participants' working areas)	Small group work presentation and discussion
19	Combustion and heat transfer	1: 00	· to evaluate traditional stove designs from participants' working areas based on combustion and heat transfer concepts	Question and answer led discussion
20	Overview of brick stove construction	0: 30	· to explain the purpose of brick stove construction	Lecturette with transparencies
21	Brick stove construction	4: 00	· to construct different brick stove designs	Stove construction
22	Guidelines for field exercise 2: kitchen, user and traditional stove	0: 30	· to explain the purpose of the field exercise	Lecturette
23	Field exercise 2: kitchen, user and traditional stove	2: 45	· to observe and collect real information on a specific user and het kitchen on a specific user and her kitchen and traditional stove from the case study community based on new understanding	Field exercise
24	Stove selection stage 2	2: 30	· to give participants and training team the opportunity to ask clarifying questions and challenge modifications/stove designs decided upon by the field exercise groups	Gallery viewing question and answer, discussion
25	Stove dissemination	2: 15	· to introduce dissemination and listen to what participants want and need to learn about dissemination	Small group work Reporting Role play Lecture with transparencies
26	Subsidies	0: 30	· to debate the issue of subsidies	Debate
27	Overview of mud stove finishing	0: 30	· to give an overview of the mud stove finishing the needs to be done	Lecturette
28	Mud stove finishing	4: 00	· to finish constructing the mud stove designs	Finish stove construction
29	Guidelines for field exercise 3: dissemination	0: 30	· to explain the purpose of the field exercise · to familiarize participants with the tools and techniques used during the field exercise (resource profile)	Working through exampless
30	Field exercise 3: dissemination	2: 45	· to explore the dissemination of the current stove and other technology dissemination systems in existence in the case study community	Field exercise
31	Stove selection stage 3:	1: 30-2: 00	· to critically analyze information gathered to determine dissemination strategy	Presentation Question and answer, discussion
32	Monitoring and evaluation	1: 00	· to give an opportunity for participants to express their understanding and feelings for m&e	Free brainstorming
33	Indicators	1: 00	· to define indicators · to come up with indicators to monitor whether benefits are actually provided	Brainstorm
34	Guidelines for field visits/stove performance analysis	0: 30	· to explain the purpose of the field exercise · to familiarize participants with the tools and techniques used during the field exercise	lecturette
35	Field visit	3: 00-4: 00	· to make participants critically think about and discuss the varied reasons for stove acceptance or rejection · to bring together various themes from the training · to observe the process of making a ceramic improved stove	Small goup work Discussion led by participant
36	Trouble shooting	1: 00	· to emphasize that m&e must result in action and thereby stress the purpose of m&e	Brainstorm Pair work Sharing
37	Stove selection stage 4: workplan	2: 00	· to critically anlayze information based on stove design and dissemination pattern selected for the case study community to determine a workplan	Group work Poster making Presentation Question and answer, Discussion
38	Overview of training	1: 30	· to review the content of the training · to prepare participants to work on their own using new knowledge and skills in developing stove designs and program plans for their working areas	Lecture
39	Application	6: 00	· to get the participants deciding about a future stove design and program in their own working areas	Individual work with possibility for private consultation with training team Poster making Gallery viewing Question and answer, inputs, general discussion
40	Evaluation of training	0: 45	· to evaluate the training · to collect suggestions for future trainings courses from participants	Individuals write on index cards Index cards grouped and taped up

Source:

Adapted from Asia Regional Cookstove Program (ARECOP) (no date).
Trainer Manual: Improvement Stove Selection and Dissemination, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.