Gender and Technology Training Guidelines
Session 11 - Handout 1
SCENARIO TWO
The village is an old colonisation scheme in the dry zone. Many people in the village
depend on drying of cashew (substitute cashew with a local food crop, and drying
with other processing method, if necessary.) for a living at certain times of the year.
It is mainly the women who are involved in the processing and the production is
manual and time consuming. An international NGO wants to introduce a processing
machine into the village to speed up production/ improve quality/ relieve drudgery.
The NGO developed the machine in South America, and believes that it will be
successful here in Sri Lanka (substitute Sri Lanka with the name of the country
where the training is conducted).
The machine has not yet been field tested in this country. In order to use the
machine, credit will probably be necessary both to purchase and maintain the
machine. The community will also have to find capital to increase the supplies of
raw materials at certain times of the year. The villagers are not familiar with using
machinery for processing cashew and may need training in using the new machine.
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