The Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development
(WIND) training programme provides practical
responses to the special problems of agricultural
safety and health. Building on the ILO's experience
gained through the WISE (Work Improvement in
Small Enterprises) programme, Can Tho city Viet
Nam has been developing a similar program known
in agriculture as WIND. The WIND programme applies
a participatory and action-oriented training
approach, designed for rapid and sustainable
improvements in farmers' safety, health and
working conditions. To ensure relevance, as
well as sustainability, WIND is very much reliant
on, and responsive to, farmers' own initiatives,
knowledge and resources.
The successes of the WIND programme prove that
even the poorest villagers participating in
these training courses are able to implement
simple, low cost improvements with the minimal
materials and resources. The WIND methodology
has a good record of promoting equality of participation
of men and women in rural communities. Many
married couples in agricultural districts in
Vietnam have participated in WIND training courses
together. The joint efforts of the men and women
who took these courses have resulted in significant
practical improvements and risk reduction in
both work and other aspects of life in rural
communities.
It is our great pleasure to present the new
upgraded version of the WIND programme (WIND
edition 2005 - Asian version) as well as the
easy to understand information materials and
booklets printed within the WIND training courses.
Ton That Khai - Tsuyoshi Kawakami
- Kazutaka Kogi
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