STEM organizes Training & Awareness Programmes, mainly in conjunction with its Research & Consultancy assignments. Over the past decade, the Society has organized a large number of such events including:

• Training & Orientation Programmes
  
• Workshops
  
• Executive Development Programmes
  
• Seminars & Conferences and
  
• Professional Meetings

These events have been eliciting active participation of development planners & managers at various levels as also governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, especially the Zilla & Gram Panchayats and affiliated grassroots-level institutions responsible for project implementation and sustenance. A case in point is the convening of a State-level Convention of Village Water & Sanitation Committees (VWSCs) in Karnataka, the first of its kind, at Humcha, Shimoga District.

As part of its assignments relating to Rural Water Supply & Sanitation (RWS&S), STEM has also organized a substantial number of training & awareness programmes. These pertained to motivating & mobilizing village communities, including school children, for project participation; familiarizing elected representatives, at district & taluk levels, with project management; and training Village Water & Sanitation Committee (VWSC) members, pump-operators & local residents in Water Quality Assurance (WQA). STEM also carried out a series of programmes for the benefit of a large number of stake-holders, spread over 32 districts, under the UP Diversified Agriculture Support Project (UPDASP).

The capacity-building programmes organized by STEM have been instrumental in creating precious managerial resources in the respective sectors.