How to integrate progrmme's plan into community's plans - Community life competence2024-03-29T14:55:14Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/forum/topics/how-to-integrate-progrmme-s-plan-into-community-s-plans?commentId=2028109%3AComment%3A146993&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHappy to be back on board. I…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-06-17:2028109:Comment:1474292015-06-17T17:44:18.953ZFrank Adu-Asarehttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/FrankAduAsare
Happy to be back on board. I add my voice to the many that its a good question that is being discussed. Representing an NGO,that works with communities this is one important issue that we are confronted with,but the good part of it is that we are always reminded of sustainability of projects and community ownership. Bottom up approach ,hence community participation at every level of a project or a programme is the best way to go.
Happy to be back on board. I add my voice to the many that its a good question that is being discussed. Representing an NGO,that works with communities this is one important issue that we are confronted with,but the good part of it is that we are always reminded of sustainability of projects and community ownership. Bottom up approach ,hence community participation at every level of a project or a programme is the best way to go. Hi Sirinate,
An important poi…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-06-09:2028109:Comment:1473402015-06-09T19:36:02.042ZAruna Hewapathiranehttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/ArunaHewapathirane
<p>Hi Sirinate,</p>
<p>An important point to remember is that community organization is fundamentally a grassroots process. It's not about an outside "expert" telling a community what it should work on. Instead, it's about community members getting excited about something, and using that energy to create change. In short, community organization is all about empowering people to improve their lives, however best that might be done. So the Ministry should make a real effort to actually visit the…</p>
<p>Hi Sirinate,</p>
<p>An important point to remember is that community organization is fundamentally a grassroots process. It's not about an outside "expert" telling a community what it should work on. Instead, it's about community members getting excited about something, and using that energy to create change. In short, community organization is all about empowering people to improve their lives, however best that might be done. So the Ministry should make a real effort to actually visit the ethnic communities and 'experience' what they have to deal with on a daily basis.</p>
<p>A fundamental lesson for the community organizer is that you don't organize people to do something you think should be done; instead, you find out what is important to people in the community, and then help them reach their goal. We found this out the hard way :) <br/><br/>You may also want to ensure the key stake holders and Ministry of Public Health are informed and aware that without grassroots community participation and involvement from the <strong>very beginning</strong> it will be hard to get any desired outcomes that actually benefit the same communities. We found that 'diplomacy' and 'tact' actually did most times get us the desired results.<br/><br/>That being said the earlier program which you say phased out after 7 years please do not think of as failure but as lesson(s) learnt ? Sustainability in the face of constantly changing needs of the community is never a easy task. <br/><br/>I am sending you some information that may be useful: <a href="http://ctb.ku.edu/en/toolkits" target="_blank">Community Toolbox</a> <br/><br/>You are probably fully aware and informed of these models but please humor me and all I ask is you go through the ones that you feel can help you as sometimes we all need to step back and re-think the entire process ? It is quite surprising how many times we forget the little details that then come back to bite us in the rear-end.</p>
<p>Dengue though it may not be a real issue for you right now we have alternative treatments that do work in resource poor settings as you will see when you watch the video below:</p>
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<p>I wish you all the very best and good luck with everything. Thank you Sirinate.</p>
<p>Aruna</p>
<p></p> Hello Sirinate,Thank you very…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-28:2028109:Comment:1469932015-05-28T04:56:49.303ZJohn Piermont Montillahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JohnPiermontMontilla
<p>Hello Sirinate,<br></br><br></br>Thank you very much for your response and query. It depends on the flexibility of your organization's policy. Your project team should revisit your project design and action plan then adjust by reprogramming based on the identified priorities of the community.<br></br><br></br>I also have experienced this kind of situation in which I am confronted by two problems: (1) its difficult to adjust because there is no policy to reprogram already-approved plans/goals/objectives or…</p>
<p>Hello Sirinate,<br/><br/>Thank you very much for your response and query. It depends on the flexibility of your organization's policy. Your project team should revisit your project design and action plan then adjust by reprogramming based on the identified priorities of the community.<br/><br/>I also have experienced this kind of situation in which I am confronted by two problems: (1) its difficult to adjust because there is no policy to reprogram already-approved plans/goals/objectives or realign budgets and (2) the project is already in the implementation phase (otherwise, we will go back to square one and implement again with budgets already consumed).<br/><br/>So what I usually do is to "deviate" the original plan and reflect the deviation in my accomplishment report under "alternative courses of actions" (for the additional activity)" and "unintended outcomes" (for the results). I inform the community whenever this happens to ensure that deviation to the original project plan was indeed drawn out from the newly emerged community needs and priorities.<br/><br/>Johnpierre<br/><br/><br/></p> Fully agree with you, John Pi…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-27:2028109:Comment:1466812015-05-27T02:46:20.263ZSirinate Piyajitpirathttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/SirinatePiyajitpirat
<p>Fully agree with you, John Pierre. In your experience, if the community has just built their dreams and started to take actions then an x agency foresees the y issue coming to the community which is of course not yet a concern of the community and therefore not in their dream. What will you do?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your continuing sharing.</p>
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<p>Fully agree with you, John Pierre. In your experience, if the community has just built their dreams and started to take actions then an x agency foresees the y issue coming to the community which is of course not yet a concern of the community and therefore not in their dream. What will you do?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your continuing sharing.</p>
<p></p> Programming that are not info…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1466782015-05-26T23:08:03.147ZJohn Piermont Montillahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JohnPiermontMontilla
<p>Programming that are not informed by what the community desires, reflects a top-down approach. Use the bottom-up approach in program design, implementation and evaluation to ensure community ownership and sustainability.</p>
<p>Programming that are not informed by what the community desires, reflects a top-down approach. Use the bottom-up approach in program design, implementation and evaluation to ensure community ownership and sustainability.</p> Very good question in deed, O…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1468052015-05-26T11:55:06.348ZSirinate Piyajitpirathttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/SirinatePiyajitpirat
<p>Very good question in deed, Olivia! Actually, the health officials from all levels are part of the facilitation teams since start (of our CLCP process). The dengue project is a new proposal of another office under the joint partner. This is the reason we wanted to talk to them and plan with them how their project can be implemented without damaging our process being built so far. </p>
<p>So, my question is how can we implement the new project within our ongoing process which has just been…</p>
<p>Very good question in deed, Olivia! Actually, the health officials from all levels are part of the facilitation teams since start (of our CLCP process). The dengue project is a new proposal of another office under the joint partner. This is the reason we wanted to talk to them and plan with them how their project can be implemented without damaging our process being built so far. </p>
<p>So, my question is how can we implement the new project within our ongoing process which has just been facilitated only 6 months ago. Should we suggest to them to give community sometimes to complete their first actions before revisiting their dreams say a year after their first dream building?</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
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<p></p> Thanks Rituu for re posting G…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1466772015-05-26T11:10:42.151ZSirinate Piyajitpirathttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/SirinatePiyajitpirat
<p>Thanks Rituu for re posting Girlie's comments.</p>
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<p>Thanks Rituu for re posting Girlie's comments.</p>
<p></p> Thank you my dear Rituu.
Your…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1466762015-05-26T11:08:24.626ZSirinate Piyajitpirathttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/SirinatePiyajitpirat
<p>Thank you my dear Rituu.</p>
<p>Your first thought is interesting. We are going to organize the Knowledge Fair in August/September. This may be a good forum for all stakeholders to share their dreams and see how they can support one another towards the development of the community. What do you think?</p>
<p>I am not quite keen on your second thought. Can you elaborate a bit more. What we are practicing now is that we involved the key stakeholders (from national, provincial, district and…</p>
<p>Thank you my dear Rituu.</p>
<p>Your first thought is interesting. We are going to organize the Knowledge Fair in August/September. This may be a good forum for all stakeholders to share their dreams and see how they can support one another towards the development of the community. What do you think?</p>
<p>I am not quite keen on your second thought. Can you elaborate a bit more. What we are practicing now is that we involved the key stakeholders (from national, provincial, district and sub-district levels) throughout the whole process. They participated in the CLCP learning event, the actual facilitation in the community, the self-measurement of change. They will also join the KF in the future. We conducted AARs every time. Not sure this is already part of the PAR as our AAR s focused more on the process of our facilitation rather than the changes in the communities.</p>
<p>Will wait to hear more from others before finalizing what should be the way forward for this situation.</p>
<p>Stay tuned!</p> Hi Sirinate. Great question!…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1466712015-05-26T06:47:28.609ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p><span>Hi Sirinate. Great question! It brings to mind a conversation that</span><a class="profileLink weakReference" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/philip.forth?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank"><span>Philip Forth</span></a><span> and I had recently, where we discussed the notion of Ownership being a Journey, which requires a focus not only on the Community, but also the staff members and influential people in the government agency or NGOs - that is, those who are making the…</span></p>
<p><span>Hi Sirinate. Great question! It brings to mind a conversation that</span><a class="profileLink weakReference" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/philip.forth?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank"><span>Philip Forth</span></a><span> and I had recently, where we discussed the notion of Ownership being a Journey, which requires a focus not only on the Community, but also the staff members and influential people in the government agency or NGOs - that is, those who are making the decisions (initially). Here is a link to our notes:</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/philip-learning/home/journey-to-ownership" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/.../home/journey-to-ownership</a><span>. I wonder if our focus needs to be less on the role and ownership of the community, and more on the attitudes of those in power? Is there a way to challenge them in that meeting to consider themselves as facilitators rather than experts?</span></p> Thank you very much Kalana.
I…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2015-05-26:2028109:Comment:1469832015-05-26T04:09:26.150ZSirinate Piyajitpirathttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/SirinatePiyajitpirat
<p>Thank you very much Kalana.</p>
<p>I also share similar experience with you re the NGOs and other organizations work. I would like to share some additional information to give you (and other friends here) more picture of the situation. The examples of community plans were all decided by the communities and did not have any influence from the programme (from our teams). As you know the program would very much want to see any plans related directly to Malaria issue. But they were none at this…</p>
<p>Thank you very much Kalana.</p>
<p>I also share similar experience with you re the NGOs and other organizations work. I would like to share some additional information to give you (and other friends here) more picture of the situation. The examples of community plans were all decided by the communities and did not have any influence from the programme (from our teams). As you know the program would very much want to see any plans related directly to Malaria issue. But they were none at this time. As this is the very first time for the community to dream for their community and to think together what to do to achieve their dream. And they have already started to work on it by themselves. We tried to facilitate the process as simple as possible to avoid making it too complicated. Our goal for this first engagement is to mobilize the community to come to work together though on a very simple dream. But they feel it's their dream and their plan. Then we can move a bit further when they have gained some experience.</p>
<p>I like your idea of stimulating the community around the issue - say clean environment, for example. On HIV work, we stimulated the community to dream about a community without HIV problem. Not sure this is what you suggested?</p>
<p>Hope to hear more from you.</p>