Technologies/ Human resources/ Training capacities
The United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) have been able to identify a set of technologies, which are suitable to the context of Orissa and the villages that they work in. They have been able to formulate and demonstrate a process for the successful use and transfer of these technologies. In the process of Technology Transfer the UNVs have now trained about 80 architects, engineers, planners and supervisors, 1481 masons, 223 government engineers and have sensitized many more to their technologies.
The future aim is to cover large areas of the state and the country using this trained human resource for implementation of projects and conduct many more training courses on appropriate disaster resistant building technologies. The effort towards developing an effective and elaborate training programme is based on the practical experience that they have got on the field.
Research/ Publications/ Dissemination
Approach to documentation.
The UNVs propagate their knowledge using mainly the following tools:
Manuals, which include masons and government engineers training manuals, ready reckoners for various types of houses and rate analysis.
Quarterly reports and completion reports, which are mainly presentations on the kind of work they do and the methodology they follow.
Publications on the buildings they have constructed, such as the brochure ‘Prerana' on the Technology Demonstration Units and the handbook on ‘Good Construction Practices in Appropriate Technologies'.
Films, which they have made to give a brief overview of their projects such as the shelter programme and the masons training programmes.
The periodic OAPTech Newsletters, two of which have been published till date and which bring out issues and ideas on topics relating to appropriate building processes.
Leaflets published in the local language, namely Oriya, targeted to the common villagers.
A regularly updated directory of the trained UNVs, Engineers, masons and community volunteers along with their names and addresses in the web portal ‘www.amagaon.com', this can be accessed by the villagers for their personal needs through the IT kiosks that are set up in many villages.
They believe in the policy ‘Seeing is Believing' and hence to sensitize local people they conduct village meetings and organise video shows and exposure visits to completed building sites.
They also undertake research work under the OAPTech forum activities, mainly relating to the topics of appropriate technologies and their effective transfer.
To refer to the above-mentioned materials, refer to the documents collected form UNDP.
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training of masons
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