Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators

The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) is a global multi‐stakeholder alliance comprising over 100 institutional members from the public, private, research, civil society and the financial sector. SRP is registered as a not-for-profit member association working to transform the global rice sector by improving smallholder livelihoods, reducing the social, environmental and climate footprint of rice production, and by offering the global rice market an assured supply of sustainably produced rice.

The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) promotes resource-use efficiency and sustainability in the global rice sector to enable 1 million rice farmers to adopt climate-smart, sustainable best practices in rice production, boosting farm incomes and livelihoods and protecting our environment.
SRP aims to build an expert pool of SRP Authorized Training Providers (institutions), Trainers (individuals), and Auditors to deliver the most current and accurate know-how on the core SRP instruments to SRP Registered Projects, SRP Members, and other rice sector stakeholders – to help scale implementation globally and at high-quality.
This course, Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard & Performance Indicators, is a four-day intensive skills course designed to help participants relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers; explain the SRP Standards on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance to SRP performance indicators.

Objectives

After this training, the participants will be able to:

• Relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers
• Explain the SRP Standard on rice cultivation and the Performance Indicators
• Conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance with the SRP Standard requirements.

Key Modules

• Module 1. Sustainable Rice
• Module 2.1. Conceptual Framework of the SRP Standard and
• Module 2.2. Overview: Understanding the 41 requirements
• Module 3.1. Conceptual Framework of the Indicators
• Module 3.2. Understanding the 12 Indicators
• Module 3.3. Using the PIs for Measuring Impact
• Module 4. Introduction to SRP Assurance Scheme

Target Audience

• Training-of-trainers style course for persons who will train individuals or teams to implement farmer outreach and capacity building activities (e.g. public officials, development practitioners, private company representatives, NGOs, program managers, consultants, lead farmers, or related persons)

Course Requirements

• Stable internet connection
• Zoom account (Personal/Office)
• Working laptop/desktop, microphone, and webcam

SRP Trainer Certification Examination

Participants are required to take the Training Certification Examination. The 30-item examination will be conducted during the last training day. Only passers of the examination will be awarded as certified SRP trainers.