* Read first Module 1 - Part A (Population and Rural Women). This is a must before making any further use of this Manual. Then read Part B. which familiarizes you with possibilities for integrating non-formal population education (NFPE) in various activities regularly carried out, directly addressing the rural population (women and men).
* Module 2 shows how specific "population messages" can be conveyed. For each of the five proposed messages, specific lessons are designed, suggesting possible methods to be used.
* If you wish to see how teaching (i.e., conveying population messages) can be done using one particular method, please refer to Module 3. However, if you wish to use anther method, you can acquaint yourself with the explanation of various methods in Module 5.
* The population messages presented do not have to be taught in their order of appearance in this Manual. Depending on the needs of your audience, you can adopt your own order of presentation.
* Some of the content and questions/answer/exercises may also need to be adjusted to suit the type of audience, such as for example, young male and/ or female adults, with no or only one or two children, engaged in farming and food processing and marketing, or in other rural activities (e.g. home keeping crafts, services, etc.)
* Before any population education activity is undertaken, it is advisable that you read the reference materials in Module 4, many of which are applicable to the population messages to be conveyed through the lessons you decide to teach. This way, you will be able to grasp the topic even better.
