OUTPUT #2:

TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS

Sitio Pag-asa, Brgy. Sto. Tomas, Biñan City, Laguna

Step 1: Planning
Location: Sitio Pag-asa, Brgy. Sto. Tomas, Biñan City, Laguna

Background of community: Sitio Pag-asa is a community in Brgy. Sto. Tomas, Biñan City, Laguna
that is a community-identified poor by the municipality of Biñan. The people living in Sitio Pag-asa,
specifically, the households belonging there have an income that is below the poverty cut-off. To
elaborate, the family including the vulnerable (women, children, and old people) lack the basic
necessities in accessing nutritious food and proper hygiene and sanitation to attain a healthy life.

Identified problem (preliminary findings): The people living in Sitio Pag-asa are food insecure and
mostly, the teenage children are lacking access and knowledge to proper hygiene, sanitation, and
nutrition.

Resources and technology available to the community:

>Few households have a small backyard garden for the plantation of vegetables such as pechay,
sitaw etc.
>Few people specifically adults have mobile phones
> Each household have a radio provided by the municipality of Biñan

Persons involved:
Mother of each household and teenage children belonging in the community

Step 2: Data gathering (to back-up your preliminary findings)

Type of data: Primary and Secondary data
-People involved in the proposed project should go directly to Sitio Pag-asa and assess the
state of the community with their own skills and knowledge.
- Household data would be collected from the barangay which includes the demographics,
income, source of living, and other necessary information to further prove that the identified
problem in the community is evident.

Persons involved:
Representative in the barangay office of Barangay Sto. Tomas
Beneficiaries: Mother of each household
Teenage children belonging in the community
Volunteers: A group of people willing to plan and organize the necessary activities that
need to be done in order to resolve and mitigate the problem
Guide questions:

Community involved questions:

How many households are living in Sitio Pag-asa?
How many of these households have a mother? If there is none, who can be a
participant/ representative for that household?
How many teenage children are in Sitio Pag-asa?
What interview questions need to be asked in order to find out the household’s health
and nutritional status?
What interview questions need to be asked in order to find out how knowledgeable are
the teenage children living in Sitio Pag-asa about proper hygiene and sanitation?
What are the main sources of food in each household?
Do the households have hygienic homes?
When would the household’s mothers and teenage children be available in order to
conduct the training?

Training proper questions:

How much manpower is needed in order to appropriate a training design for Sitio Pag-
asa?
Where would the sources of funds for the training come from?
What are the necessary resources needed for effective training to commence?
Where would these resources be available and gathered?
Where and when would the training take place?
Who would the volunteers coordinate and partner with?

Resources and technology available to them:

>Few households have a small backyard garden for the plantation of vegetables such as pechay,
sitaw etc.
>Few people, specifically, adults have mobile phones
> Each household have a radio provided by the municipality of Biñan

// To find out in the assessment how many resources does each household have for everyday
food consumption and if their basic hygiene necessities are lacking
Step 3: Timetable

Schedule Activity/Topic Objectives Resources Needed

Day 1 Assessment of each To assess and -Volunteers

of the household’s identify what would be conducting the
situation with regard the necessary interview
to their health and resources need in - Interview Guide and
nutritional status order to appropriate a questions for the
proper training design assessment
Assessment of the and what are the key - Papers and pen
teenage children’s considerations to
knowledge with consider.
regard to proper
hygiene and
sanitation

Day 2 Meeting and To be able to identify -People involved in

synthesis of the what training designs conceptualizing the
people involved in would be appropriate project/ training
conceptualizing the for the identified - Area for the meeting
project/ training problems of the to be held at
people living in Sitio
Pag-asa

To be able to finalize
and plan what would
be the necessary
steps in order to
design a project/
training

Day 3 onwards... Establishing the To be able to -People involved in

appropriate training establish an effective conceptualizing the
design training design in project/ training
order to address and - People willing to
resolve the problem volunteer is the
present in Sitio Pag- proposed project/
asa training
- Source of funding
To be able to gather - Materials needed for
the resources needed the training design
for the proposed that would be
project. This includes established
materials and sources
of funding.
Step 4: Assessment Report

Sitio Pag-asa located in Brgy. Sto. Tomas, Biñan City, Laguna lacks the proper access
nutrition and food and that the teenage children living here, are also lacking in the necessary access
and knowledge to proper nutrition and hygiene. In order for data to be gathered, conducting an
interview in Sitio Pag-asa and requesting access to the barangay for the household profiles would be
done. Once data gathering is done, planning an appropriate training design would be established.

In addition, key areas of consideration with regard to Sitio Pag-asa community’s state are (a)
the schedule and venue of where would be the training project be held at considering that the
community is overpopulated and the people involved are considered to be always busy (b), not all
households have a small backyard with vegetables so the training design that would be established
should be deliberated thoroughly (c), not all teenage children living in Sitio Pag-asa have the same
access and knowledge to proper nutrition and hygiene.