The Human Resource Development Program

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The Human Resource Development Program is the primary training program of BLESS.  The program aims to develop the administrative and technical capacities of BLESS staff, field workers, and partner developmental organizations working in the same fields as BLESS. The program offers professionally facilitated training workshops, classes, and field visits, helping BLESS and our partners contribute more effective services to our targeted communities throughout Egypt.

The Primary Objective of the Human Resource Development Program is to build the professional skills and capacities of BLESS staff, volunteers, and local partners, developing personnel, and offering better services to targeted communities. 

 Eman Nasr, a 28-year-old lady,  lives in Qena Governorate. When  BLESS started its interventions in  the community, she volunteered  to teach 43 primary students the  computer skills. She said, “I didn’t know anything  about computer skills before, but  I studied via the Internet and  developed myself”. Even when  she has an accident and was  injured, she insisted to continue  the course with the children.  The community priest nominated her to be one of BLESS field workers team, for being an active  community member. Eman joined the basic training held by the Human resources program.  During training, Eman showed a spirit of perseverance, a love of learning, and selfdevelopment. The training gave her the chance to develop her computer skills, and invest her  supportive personality by teaching computer skills to her field worker colleagues. By the end of  the training, Eman formed a team to produce the training documentary film. BLESS rewarded  her efforts with a laptop. 

  in the new targeted communities through the  Basic training by:

 - Providing them with skills and knowledge including computer skills in order to be  qualified to lead the development work. 

 - Developing the life skills and leadership personality of the fieldworkers. 

- Adopting modern techniques in trainings, such as participants conducting online  research to cover the topics discussed in the training, which improved their  technological skills. 

 in accordance with employees’ annual  assessment results, through the following: - 

The advanced English courses, computer courses and e-mail writing skills courses which  developed the technical skills of the program managers and staff. - The specialized courses which improved the managerial skills of the Human resource  employees and program managers, and resulted in developing the evaluating system for  BLESS’ employees. - Contracting with certified training centers such as Egypt Centre for Training and  Development which provided us with qualified trainers in computer skills and English  language skills.  

 in coordination with Community Empowerment and  Sustainability Program, the training aims to build their local committees’ capacity in  developing their strategic plan after exit in order to guarantee the sustainability of the  development work.