Ugandan Community Development Workers and Ministry Of Gender Labour and Social Development to use CLCP in their Work

[NAMARA ARTHUR ARAALI]

Sometime in May 2012, I was invited by Ugandan ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development to present a paper on Community Life Competence Process during a workshop drafting the first Social Gerontology Manual for Community Workers.  The presentation attracted the attention of the ministry as a very innovative and sustainable approach in promoting community ownership when dealing with concerns of older persons. The ministry agreed to include the approach into the manual. To me this was a great success on the road to sustaining the approach in Uganda. CLCP is not new in Uganda, it was used during GLIA project but because it was not institutionalized, it stopped with the project. The approach being included in the manual, will be used by generations to come as the population of older persons increase globally.

Since Uganda has very few CLCP facilitators, the ministry with financial support from Cordaid and Easy Care foundation, identified a team of 24 people who will be using the manual at different levels and requested us to train them in CLCP. The workshop which was very interactive and included SALT visit to Katabi was held in Entebbe from 13^th to 17^th August 2012

Workshop Time line

Time	Mon 13th	Tues  14th	Wed 15th	Thurs 16th	Fri 17th
09h00	Welcome, Introductions + AIMS/Objectives	Concerns around older people in communities: Easy Care tool	SALT visit Debriefing	Developing the Self-Assessment:  Categories from the Dream and SALT visits	Measurement Framework
09h30	Introduction to CLCP & Local Response
10h30		Refreshments
11h00	CLCP: Way of thinking and way of working	Easy Care tool Continued	Building a community Dream	Developing the Self-Assessment:  Levels of Progress	Action Planning
		Building the Dream
	Understanding SALT[belief / Behaviour]  and Community Strengths
12h00
13h00		LUNCH
14h00	Documentary	Practising SALT:  Community Visit Guided by Easy Care Tool	Facilitating Building of the community Dream	Facilitating the Self-Assessment	Way forward
16h00

 

This workshop was unique because it included linking the seven domains of Easy Care tool [Vision, hearing and communicating; Self-care; Mobility; Safety and security; Accommodation, environment and finance; Staying health; Mental health] as a guide to CLC facilitators during SALT visits.

At the end of the workshop, the team had a dream of an Inclusive, Caring, prosperous and peaceful community

 

We say thank you to the Constellation, thank you to Ricardo Walters, thank you to Francien for all the support. We shall keep following and supporting this team.

 

Katabi Community has started selling mushrooms from their project. They do not have to go to market, members of the community find mushroom at home.

 

[NAMARA ARTHUR ARAALI]

Thanks Ricardo, we miss you here.

[Ricardo Walters]

Fantastic progress, Arthur, and a great example of how local experience and relational influence (as a form of advocacy) can scale out the movement of response.  Thanks for the update.  I'd love to get back and hang out with your team a little sometime.

[Marlou]

A great vision, Arthur, thanks for sharing! Keep us posted on the actions that follow from here, towards this dream!

[Rituu B. Nanda]

Congratulations Namara! Please can you share more about how did this come about. What is their dream?