Setting up a National Facilitation Team - seeking your experiences and insights - Community life competence2024-03-29T06:56:42Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/forum/topics/setting-up-a-national-facilitation-team-seeking-your-experiences?commentId=2028109%3AComment%3A129499&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThanks for sharing this Marie…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-13:2028109:Comment:1307092014-02-13T12:50:24.088ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Thanks for sharing this Marie! I am sure many people will find it useful to read the reports of Country Teams. Incidentally, another great place to learn about the activities of country teams (NFTs) is in the annual report - <a href="http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/en/pages/94-resources" target="_blank">http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/en/pages/94-resources</a>.</p>
<p>Liv</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing this Marie! I am sure many people will find it useful to read the reports of Country Teams. Incidentally, another great place to learn about the activities of country teams (NFTs) is in the annual report - <a href="http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/en/pages/94-resources" target="_blank">http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/en/pages/94-resources</a>.</p>
<p>Liv</p> Et voici, communiqué par Sang…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-13:2028109:Comment:1308052014-02-13T12:47:22.676ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>Et voici, communiqué par Sangaré, le rapport de la consultation qui, en septembre 2003, a donné naissance à l'équipe Mali Compétence:</p>
<p>Et voici, communiqué par Sangaré, le rapport de la consultation qui, en septembre 2003, a donné naissance à l'équipe Mali Compétence:</p> Thank you Olivia, I know the…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-10:2028109:Comment:1307802014-02-10T07:07:30.434ZEric UWINTWAZAhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/EricUWINTWAZA
<p>Thank you Olivia, I know the group and appreciate visiting the page. But this time I hope to participate with clear questions.</p>
<p>About the NFT, the challenge as you understood is to mobilize facilitators to learn and share face to face or on our ning page.</p>
<p>But volunteers and I are trying to stimulate them for Learning and sharing sesions. I will be working with many youth associations and youth centres these coming 6 months and hope it to be opportunity to improve…</p>
<p>Thank you Olivia, I know the group and appreciate visiting the page. But this time I hope to participate with clear questions.</p>
<p>About the NFT, the challenge as you understood is to mobilize facilitators to learn and share face to face or on our ning page.</p>
<p>But volunteers and I are trying to stimulate them for Learning and sharing sesions. I will be working with many youth associations and youth centres these coming 6 months and hope it to be opportunity to improve communication.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p> Hi Eric,
There is an active g…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1307732014-02-07T14:05:36.757ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Hi Eric,</p>
<p>There is an active group called Youth Competence on NING who all have experience facilitating CLCP on youth issues in their own communities. Have you seen this group? Perhaps you could meet with them online to discuss some possible ways forward.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Olivia</p>
<p>Hi Eric,</p>
<p>There is an active group called Youth Competence on NING who all have experience facilitating CLCP on youth issues in their own communities. Have you seen this group? Perhaps you could meet with them online to discuss some possible ways forward.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Olivia</p> Eric! How wonderful to hear y…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1309212014-02-07T14:02:24.677ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Eric! How wonderful to hear your dream.... and no doubt many others would like to dream with you. But I can see that the challenge is mobilising those people and getting them together (either face to face or online).</p>
<p>Calling out to those reading - Who would like to share their experience to help Eric?</p>
<p>Olivia</p>
<p>Eric! How wonderful to hear your dream.... and no doubt many others would like to dream with you. But I can see that the challenge is mobilising those people and getting them together (either face to face or online).</p>
<p>Calling out to those reading - Who would like to share their experience to help Eric?</p>
<p>Olivia</p> Rituu! What a brilliant write…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1306192014-02-07T13:58:22.882ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Rituu! What a brilliant write-up and a great picture! I know you put a link to the dream in your blog but I just want to highlight it here too:</p>
<p>"<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Our dream is that by the year 2020 community life competence approach has spread all over India- geographically in all parts of India, at least in five thematic areas, and among different professionals working at various levels. We will work towards scaling up the approach…</em></span></p>
<p>Rituu! What a brilliant write-up and a great picture! I know you put a link to the dream in your blog but I just want to highlight it here too:</p>
<p>"<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Our dream is that by the year 2020 community life competence approach has spread all over India- geographically in all parts of India, at least in five thematic areas, and among different professionals working at various levels. We will work towards scaling up the approach especially in North India. We see India Competence as a key facilitator in communities emerging as self-motivated and self-helped groups, with their own success stories to share with the global communities at every Global Learning Festival and Constellation Meet</em>.</span>"</p>
<p>As I read each of these posts it occurs to me that each NFT is so different. Like India Competence is not registered, and has little opportunity for Face to Face, but yet you have so much activity! It really shows the power of online tools for sharing and learning - and how well you all use them.</p>
<p>Working with a host organisation like SIIAP - how does this work? What kind of support do they provide? Do they have dedicated staff who regularly connect with India competence? What do you think is their motivation for supporting you?</p>
<p>I'm so proud to be part of a network like the Constellation! All these National Facilitation Teams - wonderful examples of collective action!</p>
<p>Thanks Rituu,</p>
<p>Olivia</p>
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<p></p> Now, your feed back and ideas…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1307722014-02-07T13:54:27.868ZEric UWINTWAZAhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/EricUWINTWAZA
<p>Now, your feed back and ideas are welcome.</p>
<p>Eric</p>
<p>Now, your feed back and ideas are welcome.</p>
<p>Eric</p> Now I want to share, not what…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1306182014-02-07T13:53:07.187ZEric UWINTWAZAhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/EricUWINTWAZA
<p>Now I want to share, not what we did but what we have just began to do. Volunteers and I are doing SALT visits in youth centres. We take days of sharing reports on studdies and surveys I realised as consultant and discuss about our personnal feelings on communities' strenghts raised in my reports and what can be done to stimulate the communities'efforts.</p>
<p>The second phase will be to ask two or more ancient coaches come and share their own expériences, not as coach training but as a…</p>
<p>Now I want to share, not what we did but what we have just began to do. Volunteers and I are doing SALT visits in youth centres. We take days of sharing reports on studdies and surveys I realised as consultant and discuss about our personnal feelings on communities' strenghts raised in my reports and what can be done to stimulate the communities'efforts.</p>
<p>The second phase will be to ask two or more ancient coaches come and share their own expériences, not as coach training but as a human being facing challenges and how he lives them as a coach.</p>
<p>After that, we think to ask volunteers what they dream to undertake as independant persons, what they think they would like others would learn from them, what préoccupations they hope other members of the team can help, etc.</p>
<p>Then I hope to facilitate linking with local support: NGO, UN agencies and national associations with opportunities to facilitate. I am now doing a research for the feasibility of a youth project in peace, employment and democracy and hope to connect my partner with many youth organizations from which we may train many facilitators. A support from the Global Support Team may be needed I hope.</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Eric </p> Hi Philippe and Marie Christi…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1307712014-02-07T13:48:36.205ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Hi Philippe and Marie Christine,</p>
<p>What a great response! So informative and useful for others who may wish to learn from BelCompetence. I'm really interested in the fact that you started from the grass roots (i.e. individuals and families chose to come together to form an association) but eventually you decided to register formally. What difference did registration make to the group? What new opportunities did it open for you, if any?</p>
<p>Another point that has really resonated with…</p>
<p>Hi Philippe and Marie Christine,</p>
<p>What a great response! So informative and useful for others who may wish to learn from BelCompetence. I'm really interested in the fact that you started from the grass roots (i.e. individuals and families chose to come together to form an association) but eventually you decided to register formally. What difference did registration make to the group? What new opportunities did it open for you, if any?</p>
<p>Another point that has really resonated with me is: "<em>It is not easy to work alone and apply CLC. By having Belcompetence it strengths our behavior as we exchange and support each other</em>." I too have learned that Face To Face is really important for motivation and support in CLCP. It is a human journey, about human connection, and therefore we need to connect regularly to build that combined energy. Belcompetence seem to do this so well. I can see it helps that you have proximity and transport easily to come together monthly. Nevertheless, I take a lesson-learned here - regular face to face is something to aim for.</p>
<p>The challenges you face are very interesting, especially the challenge to balance a smooth natural spread of SALT against the more "professional" and deliberate spread. We also faced this tension in the Constellation GST. In my role of Transfer Facilitation I became very aware of the potential danger of "selling" our approach, or turning it into a commodity. However, over time, I began to see that we were not doing this, but instead we were responding to invitations, simply formalising them through contractual agreements. This was how we protected ourselves financially, which is why we have remained financially self-sustaining. Our marketing was simply by sharing with passion and demonstrating our commitment - ultimately, living SALT.</p>
<p>I wonder if other teams have had similar conversations???</p>
<p>Olivia</p>
<p></p>
<p></p> Merci Sangare',
Tout d'abord,…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2014-02-07:2028109:Comment:1307682014-02-07T13:32:05.179ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p><span class="hps">Merci Sangare',</span></p>
<p><span class="hps">Tout d'abord</span><span>, j'adore</span> <span class="hps">le nom</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Petites</span> <span class="hps">Actions</span> <span class="hps">Faisables</span><span>"!</span><br></br><span class="hps">Merci de partager</span> <span class="hps">cette expérience</span> <span class="hps">du Mali</span> <span class="hps">compétence</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Ce…</span></p>
<p><span class="hps">Merci Sangare',</span></p>
<p><span class="hps">Tout d'abord</span><span>, j'adore</span> <span class="hps">le nom</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span><span>Petites</span> <span class="hps">Actions</span> <span class="hps">Faisables</span><span>"!</span><br/><span class="hps">Merci de partager</span> <span class="hps">cette expérience</span> <span class="hps">du Mali</span> <span class="hps">compétence</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Ce que je</span> <span class="hps">trouve étonnant, c'est</span> <span class="hps">la façon</span> <span class="hps">différente à chaque</span> <span class="hps">équipe</span> <span class="hps">nationale de facilitation</span> <span class="hps">est</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">en termes de</span> <span class="hps">mise en place</span> <span class="hps">et la gestion</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">mais</span> <span class="hps">comment les réponses</span> <span class="hps">de</span> <span class="hps">sel et</span> <span class="hps">locales</span> <span class="hps">unissent</span> <span class="hps">chacun d'entre nous</span><span>.</span> <br/><span class="hps">Il est</span> <span class="hps">intéressant de noter que</span> <span class="hps">votre équipe</span> <span class="hps">a été</span> <span class="hps">mis en place</span> <span class="hps">avec l'appui</span> <span class="hps">d'un projet</span> <span class="hps">externe</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">L'équipe va</span> <span class="hps">continuer</span> <span class="hps">une fois que le</span> <span class="hps">projet est terminé</span> <span class="hps">et</span> <span class="hps">le</span> <span class="hps">«soutien»</span> <span class="hps">est terminée</span><span>?</span> <span class="hps">Comment allez-vous</span> <span class="hps">faire cela?</span> <br/><span class="hps">Merci encore</span><span>,</span> <br/><span class="hps">Olivia</span></p>
<p>Hi Sangare',</p>
<p>Firstly, I love the name - "Petites Actions Faisables"!<br/>Thank you for sharing this experience from Mali Competence. What I find amazing is how different each National Facilitation Team is, in terms of set-up and management, but how SALT and local responses unite all of us. <br/>It is interesting that your team was set up with the support of an external project. Will the team continue once the project is over and the "support" is finished? How will you do this?<br/>Thanks again,<br/>Olivia</p>