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In the spirt of the strengths approach, we also borrow from the Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focus and Positive Deviance Schools. Below are short notes about these schools compiled by David Shaked in his book Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma – Building positive and engaging business improvement that is published by Kogan Page Limited 2014. Parts have been paraphrased in our own language.
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Despite their seemingly negative view of the situation 12 mothers showed up at a meeting to explore how they may assist these children. We were pleased with the turnout and began by reiterating the purpose of the meeting. However, despite everyone nodding in understanding, it did not take long for the group to start complaining about the children in the manner they…
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Just sharing an exercise we prepared for some social work students. The first part is the challenge and the second , our suggestions and "answers." Thought you may find some of the concepts we took from a Six-Sigma Lean Management book useful.
Restorative Neighbourhood Project – Beyond Social Services, Singapore
Background
Beyond Social Services…
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Background- We have been using community life competence process to develop self assessment framework for domestic workers on decent working conditions. This is in Delhi under an ILO partnership with Institute of Social Studies Trust. In CLCP, after the communities develop a common dream, we facilitate self assessment ie where they are in terms of their dreams and where they want to go. Similarly, under this project in a workshop about 20-25 domestic workers did their…
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Jenny Cameron from the university of Newcastle, was a pioneer of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) in Australia. She recorded her use of ABCD in 2002 and whilst this was over a decade ago the application of the methodologies is as applicable today as it was back then.
How could using Asset Based Community Development approaches improve your work with communities? Are you using other strengths based approaches? I'd love to hear from you.
I hope you enjoy both…
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What a fabulous opportunity to learn, share stories and make connections with other practitioners.
Last month we saw almost 200 people from 21 nations come together at Ribby Hall, Wrea Green, UK, came together for days to celebrate 20 years of Asset Based Community Development around the world.
Here are some video snippets from the…
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Le moment approche, à nouveau, ou je vais avoir l'opportunité magnifique d'accompagner des individus et des communautés dans leur processus de création ou de transformation vers leurs rêves et leurs aspirations communes. Alors cette question reviens avec insistance : être Salt avec les autres ? oui ça vient ! mais suis-je Salt avec moi ? suis-je encore envies ? suis je capable de voir ces forces qui m'habitent et qui me font, suis-je capable de voir le meilleur…
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Sometimes we propose processes and formats for SALT that are not easy. Congrats to all first followers who get up and take on the risk to get involved. Thanks to William Sherlaw who shared this video with me.
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My name is Albie Colvin, this is my first Community Life Competence post, bit nervous.
I am a young Melbourne-based social entrepreneur/philanthropist; I run ACGD Design - community based creative communications company, and I am the founder of Colour Them Safe (CTS) - small international arts initiative aimed at improving the livelihoods of disadvantaged young…
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I had the opportunity to facilitate community life competence process with domestic workers. This is part of the work for which Reiko and Suneetha from ILO Delhi office have invited us to use the approach to develop a participatory monitoring tool for the domestic workers on their working conditions. The event brought together domestic workers, their families, NGOs, employers, Trade unions and ILO staff . We saw slight changes emerge which gave us hope. Reflections showed that strength-based…
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Working with marginalised communities on using data and technology in advocacy
By Maya Ganesh, Beatrice Martini and Dirk Slater.
“You are welcome anytime, you're not like others who come with their own bag of potatoes”
It’s with these words…
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c'est lhistoire d'une femme qui a vecu avec un homme toxicomane et qui c'est retrouve veuve a l'age de 25ans avec 2 enfants sous sa responsabilite .pendant les annee passé a c'etait un combat dans son role de femme et maman ,elle a du accompagne son mari dans une therapie avec les rechutes continuel.mais sa lui a fait grandir le fait q'uelle etait une fille tres gate avec ses parents avant de le rencontre.Le point fort de cette histoire c'est la force de cette femme qui n'a jamais baisse les…
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Who is Mama Kara? It is the community self-assessment (SALT) training organized by the Togolese Red Cross in partnership with UNICEF, which took place in Kara from the 18th until the 21st May 2015. In June a pilot phase will start in Togo: 2 regions, 4 districts, 8 villages.
Different actors, from project coordinators to mammas from the club de mères will use the community self-assessment in the different villages. The villages will evaluate their situation regarding the…
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Just the day after, the first hit by 7.8 RS Earthquake on 25th April 2015, many casualties from epicenter lying areas of Nepal esp. from Gorkha were admitted to Gandaki Hospital, Pokhara.
While assessing the scene to the green zone area, my attention went to a girl there at the corner of Green zone area, named Babita Sunar. She was alone and no guardian to take care of her. She is only 10 years old. Slowly, I came to know her background details. She was an orphan living in support by…
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“Our biggest dream is that our employers treat us with love and care and dignity. They trust us and value our work. They do not discriminate against us. We have the same blood as them.” That was the comment by one of the domestic worker in her early thirties. This dream was echoed by 20 domestic workers of Kalyanpuri area in outskirts of Delhi. They said that some employers are nice but some are very harsh. Some even keep different utensils for them to eat. It takes both sides to…
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Written by Shakil (IDF), Kirti (Centre Direct), Madhuri and Arun (Adithi), Jitendra Kumar Singh (Prayas) ,Subedar (PGS), Sachin Kumar, Rituu, Rajneesh Kumar.
A group of us recently visited a community in UP which composed of members who were bonded labors in brick-kilns. The story below is about a community which has taken action against the atrocity and slavery under the veil of their livelihood, took ownership of their issue and is collectively acted upon…
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Written by Rajneesh Kumar Yadav, Sachin Kumar and Rituu B Nanda
This is a story from Kukdaha Community vigilance committee (CVC)[1] in Jhalupur, Uttar Pradesh. Our MSEMVS team supported by Geneva Global and funded by Freedom Fund has been working here to bring labourers out of bondage from brick kilns and encouraging them to address their livelihood, government services and anti-slavery issues so that they do not get entrapped in the same…
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Ce matin j'ai eu la chance de faciliter une rencontre par Skype entre Hélène et Valéry de l'association Liboso (en Belgique) et le comité local "Ensemble la santé pour tous en Pays de Redon" (Bretagne) qui s'apprête à tenter l'aventure du SALT.
Un échange très riche entre une structure belge et une structure française, le Partage et le Transfert ont ici pris tout leur sens! Merci à Laurie et Hervé d'avoir proposé cette rencontre.
Voici un extrait du témoignage des deux repré…
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