Chers amis de Constellation

A l'occasion de nos dix ans d'existence, voici la Déclaration Universelle du Droit au Rêve. Est-ce que ce texte "résonne" pour vous? Pourrait-il devenir le manifeste de la Constellation?

Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année , et meilleurs voeux pour l'An Neuf.

Jean-Louis…

Dear Friends of the Constellation,  

As a celebration of our ten year anniversary, please find below a Declaration on the Universal Right to Dream. Does it resonate with you? Shall we make it our Constellation manifesto, for people to sign all over the world?

Happy holidays!…

What should projects accomplish… and for whom?

An unnamed international non-profit client contacted me to evaluate their resilience project mid-stream, to gauge prospects for sustainable handover. EUREKA, I thought! After email discussions with them I drafted an evaluation process that included learning from a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Ministries, local government and the national University who were to take over the programming work about what they thought would be most…

Do you want to help your community move forward using their own strengths?

Interested to facilitate the Community Life Competence Process as a practical approach to build, strengthen and sustain communities?

The Constellations Blended Learning Course might fit your needs!

 What can I expect?

The Constellations Blended Learning…

Avec mes remerciements à Marie pour la traduction et à Rituu d’avoir invité les membres de la Constellation à partager leurs expériences sur la collecte de fonds! Cela m'a rappelé une «ancienne» histoire que j’ai racontée au Festival international d’échange en Inde. Je la partage ci-dessous car je pense qu'elle est toujours d'actualité dans la Constellation aujourd'hui!

La Constellation est composée de communautés du monde entier. L'équipe de soutien de la Constellation stimule…

Robyn Stratton-Berkessel interviewed Jean Louis Lamboray, Chair of the Constellation.  I got to know some aspects of the Constellation story which I did not know before and thoroughly enjoyed Robyn's sweet voice and JL's humour. This also demonstrates the power of Podcasts and how hearing a voice, emotion in the voice, laughter, interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee  can connect you greater with the person and the story. Thank you…

In mid-November I attended the Festival of Learning organized by the Asian-South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Learning (ASPBAE) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Unfortunately no member from the IndoCompetence team could participate in the event.

During the Festival of Learning, I had an opportunity to join an exchange visit to a local NGO, Lentera Sahaja – Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI), which was the Youth Service Center of Indonesian Planned Parenthood…

Fundraising Resources for Community-Based Organizations

1. Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs/Civil Society in the Developing World, from Coyote Communications
2. Core Costs Funding Strategies, from BOND’s Guidance Notes Series…

Don’t give up, keep moving forward: Chris Lucas

http://www.theindiapost.com/world/usa/dont-give-up-keep-moving-forward-chris-lucas/

Published On: Tue, Dec 2nd, 2014

Dr. Avnish Jolly : Lucas was diagnosed with HIV in 1986 — one of the first Winnipeggers to…

Merci à Marlou de Rouw pour sa facilitation! Nous sommes un groupe décidé à manifester notre habitat groupé, coopératif et écologique en Pays de Gex, Grand Genève!

Nous en sommes à l'étape 2 du SALT. Aujourd'hui, je partage avec vous notre co-création, lors de notre premier atelier "Quel est notre rêve" . Visitez notre blog : http://amitoyens.blogspot.fr/…

We were heartened that 35 parents responded to our call to be part of a team tasked with the challenge of addressing a concern or problem in their neighbourhood. With the help of Kiran Kandade a volunteer facilitator, we introduced the Appreciative Inquiry framework as a way of building a team around what works rather than trying to fix what does not.…

Les blogs offrent aux membres un espace pour partager leur expérience de réponse locale à un problème et leur expérience de facilitation de la réponse locale. Articles, études et autres documents de recherche peuvent être partagés dans le Press Corner qui est sous l'onglet REQUESTS. Les blogs se trouvent sous l'onglet OUR STORIES:

Pour publier votre expérience :

- Rendez-vous à l’adresse …

bonjour,

c'est avec beaucoup d'éffort que je vais ecrire ces quelque lignes,voila,mes soucis c'est que j'ai du mal a m'exprimer et cela me gene enormement,me m'est mal a l'aise.j'ai toujour  peur, peur qu'on se moque de moi,si j'ai pas bien parlé ou  si j'ai mal reagi a quelque chose et la, ca me bloque completement.je n'arrive pas a surmonter cela a telle point  que je ne sais plus quoi repondre et ca arrive meme quand on me fait un compliment.

vous comprenez maintenant…

On behalf of Joseph Vandi I am sharing this story he sent me by email. Grateful to Joseph and other SALT facilitators in Ebola affected countries!

Marlou

Sesay Vandi a decendant of Gbarley village who was living in Waterloo, a settlement 20 miles off Freetown, lost his wife and two of his four children to Ebola. Few weeks later, he

also died to…

I am sad about the US in-justice demos and Uganda's maid who battered a two year old and the youth with a toy gun also killed. I believe CLC has a very long way to go. Don't you think so?

Why this blog today?

This morning, at office, a colleague of mine came to me to discuss on how we value communities land in face of mining project development that are compulsorily removing them from their original place to other resettlement places, while compensating them as for established in the Mozambique law. The Resettlement Regulation (Decree 32/2012) states more or less that when communities are resettled due to development of economic projects, including mining, they must be…

All communities need angels. Angels are the people who carry the messages to and from people who can you make your dreams come true.

Dreams come true when three kinds of angels carry the messages from one place to another:

• Master Angels who have specialized in something and know all the professional language, the best solutions money can buy and the…

Thanks Rituu, for providing the opportunity to share my thoughts on this important topic....Fundraising.

I am from the eastern part of India and having lived in different metropolitan cities of the region. In my career span, I have worked primarily with organisations such as Greenpeace, ActionAid and Oxfam. Currently, I am associated with Netherlands Leprosy Relief. My career has mainly centered around fundraising with corporate sectors, donor agencies, institutional donors,…

This video presents the story of MYRADA - a community development organization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVBMMJ0RMao

Appreciative Inquiry-A Beginning documents the experience of development workers and community members with appreciative inquiry, an innovative approach to bring about lasting change. Appreciative inquiry empowers local people by helping them build a vision for a…