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During 2013, a small group of people worked on a project to organise the stories that appear on this site so that we can learn more effectively from the experiences of Local Response described here. These experiences sit at the heart of Knowledge Fairs. We organise the content into what we call Knowledge Assets. This note explains a little more about Knowledge Fairs and Knowledge Assets. At the end, there is a link to more material and examples.
The idea of…
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By Isaac Roy Kyeyune, Director at FIND Partners International in Kampala. (This originally appeared as a guest post on how-matters.org.)
The year 2013 saw trends that are changing resource politics for civil society. These are a wakeup call to not only strengthen, but diversity your…
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As a public health practitioner and community activist working for health and well-being of community people, I have always seeks a better way to build an admirable understanding between facilitators and community people. During this search I have discover the venerable approach, which I called the “DELA” to, built a trustable relation with community people. We as a facilitator need to very conscious about the various aspects of society, when we visit community with the good…
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The Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), Delhi offers a three-months M&E course annually for foreign students. Currently, there are about 25 students from 16 countries currently undergoing the course, and I am one of them. Rituu B Nanda conducted a session on community life competence during this course. At the end of the session the participants came together in groups to discuss how…
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Facilitated S.A.L.T to 21 orphans and at risk children served by Touching Lives Integrated CBO (kombistic.weebly.com). It was awesome with kids acknowledging and appreciating each others strength(s) and great potentials. They realized that nobody was a nobody and that every kid is somebody. They learned to appreciate and encourage each other for that is what everyone needs. At the end of it the kids promised to focus on the positives even as they work on the weaknesses.
Parents have…
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Hello!
I wish to share my first experience as a monitoring officer. I work for the Fiji Government as a monitoring officer. When the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit was established in 2009, I was tasked to monitor the implementation of the strategic goals of Government by the Ministry of Health, which was done on a quarterly basis.
When I went to monitor in the first quarter of 2010, I walked into the Ministry wearing my hat as a monitoring officer. After the formulation of…
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Médecin urgentiste de formation, j’avais longtemps la conviction que je suis ainsi que mes collègues personnels de santé les plus placés pour connaitre les meilleurs solutions et stratégies pour améliorer la qualité des prestations de soins. Je ne voyais dans les patients que des usagers faibles dont je dois prendre soins d’eux. Jamais, j’ai eu une discussion concernant l’avis de mes patients sur les services que nous lui rendons et je n’ais jamais songé à partager avec eux leurs…
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Je partage une histoire de Celestin Mukala, facilitateur en RDC (translated in English, below):
Zone de Santé de Bibanga
Aire de Santé* de Kaponji
Communautés :
ITAV Elèves
ITAV Enseignants
Dans la Zone de Santé de Bibanga, l'Approche Salt fait parler d'elle comme c’est le cas dans l'Aire de Santé de Kaponji. Salt est lié et transféré dans le développement dans sa phase de…
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Last year, on the day of face-to-face Community Life Competence (CLC) session, all the CLC trainees of CLC were anticipated to contribute in roll out of CLC approach in Nepal. That day, we Pokhara team Nabaraj and Dipendra planned to carry out CLC program in our working organizations including, various social organizations and ethnic societies. After having series of…
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Many people hesitate while they speak in front of the mass. It is not a new thing to all. It is natural to shy and feel awkward when we speak. Effective communication is a key to enter one’s mind, solicit, and share the experiences. It was 11 January 2014; we Dipendra Malla and Nabaraj Adhikari had planned to have a salt visit next day in a youth led social organization called ‘Thakuri Youth Family, Kaski’. Therefore, we made a contact at secretary office and informed them for an informal…
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dear friends, thank you for the many collaborations and/or conversations in 2013, all sources of deep inspiration! My wishes for myself in 2014 is to contribute to spreading SALT; …
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Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher who died more than 200 years ago. He taught us how we should seek to live our lives and I find that what he said then is relevant for how I live my life today.
Here is the dream of Immanuel Kant. It seems to me that he is talking about Local Response. And his dream is a dream for the Constellation. I shall carry it with me into 2014.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use…Continue
Added by Phil on December 31, 2013 at 10:46am — 4 Comments
The AAS (Aquatic Agriculture System) program final event for the 2013 was Knowledge Fair which was convened in Battambang province, Northwest of Cambodia. The Workshop aimed at bringing knowledge and experience for sharing and create new learning.
The workshop held for three days, the first two days were on exposure visit to a community after they have started to take steps of implementing community action plan, conduct overall After Action Review (AAR) of the whole process of…
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Happiest New Year 2014. Let's proactively and collaboratively look forward to achieve the 3 Zeros (New HIV Infections; Discrimination; and AIDS Patients).
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Few month earlier , I requested Mr. Kissan Gurung the administrator officer The Mountain Trust to provide me opportunity to work in its endeavor’s of helping people of rural Nepal.
Fortunately, they are working Drinking and Sanitation project in scatter settlement, which is situated southwest outskirts of Pokahara Valley. We went to visit at scatter settlement with the objective of sharing some information regarding good sanitation practices, which can help them to become health. I…
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“Appreciation is absolutely magical and has the power to transform our life." This energy can be harnessed by anyone to build trust, achieve success, happiness and fulfillment in every area of life: from work to family to health to aging and even in crisis.
Starting of any session, training, meetings,conversation etc. with feelings of humanity “humans” encourage a lot to feel we all are same and have equal rights. Addition of “Appreciation" helps to transform troubling…
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Moussa Sagara enseignant à Bandiagara
Les élèves cotisent pour réaliser des sketchs sur les IST, le VIH et le Sida en pays dogon.
Les recettes proviennent des frais de possession de symboles (les élèves qui ont une mauvaise conduite à l'école sont sanctionnés par un symbole, sa remise à l'enseignant est monnayé par 10 F CFA, soit 0.015 euros). Ce symbole a une valeur d'apprentissage car elle évite au detenteur de…
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il s'agit d'une petite commune rurale à 50 km de la ville de Ségou (3ème région du Mali).
Un comité communal de lutte contre le sida a été formé par le projet Renforcement de l'initiative corridor de lutte contre les IST et le VI/Sida. La commune a élaboré son plan de réponse et l'a intégré dans le plan quinquennal de développement social économique et culturel (PDSEC). Les femmes ont mis en place une mutuelle de santé…
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This story comes the Global Learning Festival held in Chennai in 2012. It is told by Aniruddhan Vasudevan. You can find it and many other stories told at the Learning Festival at https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/the-global-learning-festival/home…
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