ID-TF PNPM Community Facilitators Development Program (CFDP)-Phase III

The Community Facilitators Development Project (CFDP) supports community-driven poverty reduction by advancing the role of community facilitators as agents of change through certification and training programs. There are an estimated 25,000 facilitators deployed throughout PNPM, with additional thousands working for donor, NGO and community empowerment projects across Indonesia. Phase 3 of the Community Facilitators Development Program was approved in July 2011 and has two main components: (i). A certification program for community facilitators, conducted by an independent Institute for Professional Certification of Community Facilitators (Lembaga Sertifikasi Profesi Fasilitator Pemberdayaan Masyarakat/LSP-FPM), which will employ Competency Assessors in a number of Competency Test Centers across the country, using national and international guidelines for professional certification; (ii) Continued development and refresher training to develop the core and advanced competencies of community facilitators and the development of a knowledge management system that will enable facilitators to form a community of practitioners and to continue to develop their capacities