Module 2 - Population messages and lesson designs

Purpose:

* This Module provides ideas on how five non-formal population education (NFPE) lessons can be designed to support the five suggested population messages.

* For facilitator's (i.e. outreach worker's) further reference, a selection of teaching/ learning principles and technologies is suggested in Module 5.

Lesson 1: Appreciating women's role in the family and the community

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

CONTENT

TEACHING PROCEDURES

EVALUATION

Explain the roles of women as:

MESSAGE: WOMEN HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ROLE TO PLAY IN THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY AS ENVIRONMENT OR RESOURCE MANAGERS, AS PRODUCERS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AS EDUCATORS; AS CARE-GIVERS OR HEALERS

Ask participants the following questions:

* environmental/ resource managers

1. What kind of work do women usually do everyday, and how much time is devoted to each task?

* producers of agricultural products

* educators

2. What will happen to your family if women will not do these activities?

* care-givers or healers

Discuss the significance of each role in the development of the community

1. Role of women as environmental and resource managers

* Role play

* Picture analysis

3. What will happen to the family and the community if women will not do these activities?

* determine where to get firewood, how to prevent fast depletion of fuel wood resources

* determine where to obtain water, how to maintain water source

* determine where to get food for animals

2. Role of women in agricultural production

* Group Discussions

* sowing, weeding, harvesting, winnowing

* processing

* marketing of agricultural produce

3. Role of women as educators

* Role Play

* training of children on values, health and sanitation at home

* training of community members

4. Role of women as care-givers and healers

* Field Observation

* Women keep family relations going smoothly.

* Women can serve as volunteer health workers.

5. Summary

* Group Discussions

Ask the participants to suggest ways on how women and men can fulfill their roles more efficiently, including through mutual collaboration in the household.

* As natural resource users and managers, women significantly contribute to the wellbeing of the society

* Women's productive roles are vital in determining the nutrition and health of the family

Lesson 2: Pregnancy and spacing of births

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

CONTENT

TEACHING PROCEDURES

EVALUATION

Discuss the appropriate age range for women to be pregnant.

MESSAGE: PREGNANCIES SHOULD BE AVOIDED BELOW THE AGE OF 18 AND ABOVE 35. PREGNANCIES SHOULD BE AT LEAST TWO YEARS APART.

Questions that may be asked:

1. At what age did you have your first child?

2. If you had a choice, at what age would you have wanted your first child? Explain why.

Discuss the most suitable spacing between pregnancies.

1. Importance of the proper age in pregnancy

* Group Discussion

3. What conditions would you like to have for yourself and for your family before you have a (another) child?

* Emotional maturity

* Case Studies

* Physical maturity

* Economic security

* Reduction of infant mortality risks

4. Are you aware of the effects on environmental resources with a faster-growing population? If yes, what are they?

* Reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality risks

2. Importance of spacing births

* Story - telling

5. What are the dangers of closely spaced births?

* Health of mother and child

- for mother

* Economic stability of the family

- for youngest child

* Possibility of fewer children

- for newborn

* Lower rate of depletion of requirements of more people at a given time

- for family members

6. Would you be willing to go to the local government clinic for family planning?

Describe the facilities/ services available to space/ avoid pregnancies

3. Facilities/ services for population/responsible parenthood

* Lecture - discussion

a. Consult the village health worker who will give endorsement

b. Consult the nurse or doctor at the Rural Health Unit.

c. Obtain supplies from the village supply officer.

Lesson 3: Providing for the children's future

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

CONTENT

TEACHING PROCEDURES

EVALUATION

Discuss the advantages of having not more than 3 children.

MESSAGE: WE SHOULD BALANCE THE NEED FOR HAVING MORE CHILDREN TO HELP US IN THE FIELD AND THE HOUSEWORK, WITH OUR CAPABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR BASIC NEEDS AND THEIR FUTURE.

You may ask the following questions:

* What is your preferred number of children?

* How much does it cost before a child can become an adult and will be economically productive?

Discuss the financial, emotional and other requirements for bringing become economically productive adults.

1. Reasons for having children:

* Group Discussions

* What things, other than financial, would children need for them to grow as balanced, productive adults?

* Future security

* Case Studies

* Additional hands to work at home and on the farm

* What are the feelings in your village about having few children?

* Sign of social recognition (i.e., manhood/ womanhood)

* Continuing family line

* If children are useful help at home and on the farm, what are our alternatives to child labor if we choose not to have more than 3 children?

2. Parents' obligations to their, children

* Group Discussions

* Food, clothing and shelter

* Game (distribute items equally among those who are many and among those who are few)

* Education

* Environment which promotes emotional, physical, mental and spiritual growth.

3. Advantages of having not more than 3 children:

* Two case studies, one having many children, one having fewer children... compare and contrast

* Children's health/ mother's health

* Ability of parents to provide better for the future of the children

4. Financial requirements before a child becomes grown-up and productive.

* Group exercise: What is needed to bring up one child?

5. Following the ideal number of children even if they are not of the preferred gender.

* Group Discussions

Identify practical alternatives for child labor in the family.

6. Alternative to labor:

* Panel Discussions

* Technological development

* Time management

* Exchange of volunteer labor among farming families

* Others

Discuss the effect of family size to available household resources

7. Family size and farm size

* Story-telling

* Ability to diagram or draw the effects of family size on available resources, employment and migration patterns.

Discuss the effect of family size to rural/urban unemployment rates and migration

* Increase in family size and steady farm size decreases resources for each family member.

* Effects of inadequate farm size in terms of rural unemployment; urban immigration,

Lesson 4: Women in decision-making

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

CONTENT

TEACHING PROCEDURES

EVALUATION

Discuss the advantages

MESSAGE: IT IS

1. Identify 3 areas

of involving women in

VITAL THAT THERE

where women

decision-making in the

SHOULD BE EQUAL

(wives) participate

following areas:

INVOLVEMENT

in decision-making

* childbearing

WOMEN (HUSBAND

in your family.

AND WIFE).

* child-rearing including curriculum development in pre- and school elementary

1. It is important to involve women in decision-making particularly for important concerns as:

* Simulation Question you may ask

2. List 3 cases where women (wives) should be given the opportunity to make basis with men (husbands). Why do you think women should take part in making these decision?

* family health

* Childbearing

* What are the disadvantages of having another child from the husband's, wife's, and other children's perspectives?

* disposition of family income.

* Child-rearing

3. What are the factors that will help women participate in decision-making in the family?

* employment participation in the labor force

* Family health

* Role Play

* management of environment/natural resources

* Disposition of family income

* Employment/participation in the labor force

* Management of environment/natural resources

2. Joint decision-making is a vital expression of the equality between men and women.

* Panel Discussions

* Role Play

* More realistic decisions are made.

* Decisions can be better implemented.

Lesson 5: Providing women with technology

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

CONTENT

TEACHING PROCEDURES

EVALUATION

MESSAGE: WOMEN SHOULD BE ENABLED TO HAVE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGIES (INFORMATION, MONEY FOR CREDIT TO BUY/AVAIL OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES).

Questions you may ask:

1. In what area of their work can technology help women best?

2. Suggest ways to make it easier for women to avail themselves of machines/gadgets/ conveniences which will make women's work easier, and reduce their need for child labour.

Identify type of work where technology can ease the physical burden among women.

1. Aspects of women's work which can be aided by technology:

* Demonstration

* cooking

* Group Discussions

Identify women's farm and home chores where children's work is important Specify the role of boys and girls.

* draining water

* washing clothes

3. What problems do you foresee m making these technologies available to women?

* watering plants

* storing grains, etc.

* time and labor-saving

Discuss ways by which time and energy-saving technology can benefit women.

technologies for planting, weeding, processing grain, etc.

Enumerate ways by which women's access to technology can be improved.

2. Advantages/benefits of each type of technology.

* Observation Visits

3. How to bring technology closer to women:

* Group Discussions

* Field visits

* Observation Tours

* Invite demonstrators and trainers to train women on the use of technology

* Panel Discussions

* Make low-cost technologies available to women through a lending scheme suited to their capacity to. pay.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES	CONTENT	TEACHING PROCEDURES	EVALUATION
Explain the roles of women as:	MESSAGE: WOMEN HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ROLE TO PLAY IN THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY AS ENVIRONMENT OR RESOURCE MANAGERS, AS PRODUCERS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AS EDUCATORS; AS CARE-GIVERS OR HEALERS		Ask participants the following questions:
* environmental/ resource managers			1. What kind of work do women usually do everyday, and how much time is devoted to each task?
* producers of agricultural products
* educators			2. What will happen to your family if women will not do these activities?
* care-givers or healers
Discuss the significance of each role in the development of the community	1. Role of women as environmental and resource managers	* Role play
		* Picture analysis	3. What will happen to the family and the community if women will not do these activities?
	* determine where to get firewood, how to prevent fast depletion of fuel wood resources
	* determine where to obtain water, how to maintain water source
	* determine where to get food for animals
	2. Role of women in agricultural production	* Group Discussions
	* sowing, weeding, harvesting, winnowing
	* processing
	* marketing of agricultural produce
	3. Role of women as educators	* Role Play
	* training of children on values, health and sanitation at home
	* training of community members
	4. Role of women as care-givers and healers	* Field Observation
	* Women keep family relations going smoothly.
	* Women can serve as volunteer health workers.
	5. Summary	* Group Discussions	Ask the participants to suggest ways on how women and men can fulfill their roles more efficiently, including through mutual collaboration in the household.

	* As natural resource users and managers, women significantly contribute to the wellbeing of the society
	* Women's productive roles are vital in determining the nutrition and health of the family

LEARNING OBJECTIVES	CONTENT	TEACHING PROCEDURES	EVALUATION
	MESSAGE: WOMEN SHOULD BE ENABLED TO HAVE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGIES (INFORMATION, MONEY FOR CREDIT TO BUY/AVAIL OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES).		Questions you may ask:
			1. In what area of their work can technology help women best?
			2. Suggest ways to make it easier for women to avail themselves of machines/gadgets/ conveniences which will make women's work easier, and reduce their need for child labour.
Identify type of work where technology can ease the physical burden among women.	1. Aspects of women's work which can be aided by technology:	* Demonstration
	* cooking	* Group Discussions
Identify women's farm and home chores where children's work is important Specify the role of boys and girls.	* draining water
	* washing clothes		3. What problems do you foresee m making these technologies available to women?
	* watering plants
	* storing grains, etc.
	* time and labor-saving
Discuss ways by which time and energy-saving technology can benefit women.	technologies for planting, weeding, processing grain, etc.
Enumerate ways by which women's access to technology can be improved.	2. Advantages/benefits of each type of technology.	* Observation Visits
	3. How to bring technology closer to women:	* Group Discussions
	* Field visits	* Observation Tours
	* Invite demonstrators and trainers to train women on the use of technology	* Panel Discussions
	* Make low-cost technologies available to women through a lending scheme suited to their capacity to. pay.