Day 4 Blog (15 Jan. 2015)
Participatory Methods Seminar– TCDC Arusha-Tanzania (12-16 January
2015)
Day 4 was processed
important sessions; a) participatory monitoring and evaluation, b) role of R-A
in campaign and social movement, c) capacity development and online learning.
The participatory monitoring and evaluation was performed by role-play of group
of participants, which inspired the participants in a very simple way. The role
play portrays that group of farmers cultivating their land out of which one
group was monitoring, observing and nurturing their crops throughout the year
and other did not do so. Role-play as a tool appeared useful from the
experiences of R-A practitioners across the world. And it was followed by PPT
of a checklist of M&E used by AA Bangladesh to monitor R-A circles across
LRPs. The PM&E is the continuous process to achieve the set goal and
objectives which clearly showed in role play of farmers.
As campaign and social movement is our core to theory of change and
how R-A process plays a crucial role to generate momentum to create a campaign
and social movement. Raj from Nepal shared a case study of Dalit rights
movement of eastern part of Nepal. It was the case where Dalit communities
started their discussion in R-A circles on their own about the issues of
untouchability, dignity, injustice, marginalization from socially constructed
structure. They started their discussion and built their conscientisation over
their rights with full of dignity and humanity. They organized themselves in
the community and rejected to throw the dead animals as such dehumanizing
practice had been there in the society for centuries. Such type of courage and
confidence was built in R-A circle, which get momentum through mass
mobilization, media mobilization to create the campaign and social movement grounded.
In the journey of campaign, the campaigners were developed as leaders from the
marginalized communities. Dalit has been facing systematic discrimination that starts
from the birth to death and even after death. All these conscientisation as
well as empowerment is being developed in the R-A circles.
Similarly, Harriet
from Uganda shared anti-corruption campaign also known as black Monday. This
very campaign was also started from R-A circles and had got momentum at
regional and national level. These two cases were followed by a short
presentation of the opinion maker's course running in AADK as an example of how
public action learning can be used for other purposes besides campaigns.
Then after, another
important session on HRBA capacity development networks and peer to peer
support through accompaniment, knowledge management and online learning to
enhance our core skills in different organizational dimensions to achieve our
strategic objectives by 2017.
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