Capacity building is a core pillar for strengthening community institutions under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). Well-trained community professionals play a critical role in ensuring that knowledge, skills, and best practices reach the federations in a structured manner.
To further support this objective, the training portal has introduced a new series of specialised courses focused on Community Managed Training Centres (CMTCs). These courses aim to build the operational, managerial, and strategic capacities required for CMTCs to function as sustainable training institutions.
1. Community Managed Training Centre – Products, Clients & Training Systems
This course teaches the participants to map training services, identify target clients within and outside the State Rural Livelihoods Mission (SRLM), and align training offerings with the needs of different stakeholders. The course will help learners to design service portfolios, categorise potential clients, and develop strategies for delivering training programmes that respond to community and institutional needs.
2. Community Managed Training Centre – Sustainability & Review Systems
This course focuses on strengthening CMTCs as financially and operationally viable institutions within Cluster Level Federations (CLFs).
The programme explains the concept of CMTC functioning as a cost centre, while highlighting the importance of maintaining strong financial systems, governance practices, and legal compliance. The participants will also learn about structured review mechanisms including monthly, quarterly, and annual monitoring systems that help maintain transparency, accountability, and performance improvement within CMTC operations.
3. Community Managed Training Centre – Training Planning & Management
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive guide of how CMTCs can design and implement quality training programmes. The learners will study the process of conducting Training Need Assessments (TNA), selecting suitable adult learning approaches, and organising training activities across the entire cycle—from preparation and facilitation to post-training review. The course also teaches about pre-tests and post-tests mechanisms to measure learning outcomes and improve training effectiveness.
4. Community Managed Training Centre – Monthly & Annual Training Calendar
Designed for capacity building of CMTC functionaries, this course teaches the participants to prepare structured monthly and annual training calendars. The module highlights the importance of planning training activities, maintaining optimal batch sizes, and ensuring a balanced mix of residential and non-residential training programmes. The Participants will learn how to prepare annual training plans, develop monthly schedules, align training programmes with community demand, and integrate demonstration sites and thematic coverage into their planning framework.
Building Stronger Training Ecosystems
These newly launched courses aim to strengthen the institutional capacity of Community Managed Training Centres so that they can function as professional, accountable, and sustainable training hubs within the DAY-NRLM ecosystem.
Through structured learning modules and practical guidance, the courses equip community professionals with the knowledge required to plan training activities effectively, manage training systems, ensure sustainability, and deliver high-quality learning programmes that benefit SHGs and their federations across the country.