Satisfaction through new insights !
The European Regional Conference on “Driving Business Results through Effective Change Management” will be held 17 September 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
This power packed one day event will be preceded by an Opening Reception the evening of 16 September and will also host optional post-conference workshops on 18 September. The post-conference workshops will be offered by ACMP Qualified Education Providers.
Read further and registration: http://www.changemanagementeurope.com/
That is how villagers in Afghanistan get ‘motivated’ to build their own latrines!
Community-Led Total Sanitation, or CLTS as it is called is apparently quite successful and needs to be scaled up in order to achieve Open Defecation Free Afghanistan by the year 2025. However, its success depends mainly on the quality of the facilitators who manages the process at the community level and lead the villagers into this rather confrontational process. “The walk of shame” being one of the key activities is literally a tour together with the community members around the village to identify places where open defecation is practised. It is even customary to trace the persons who ‘committed this crime’. Learning the implications through embarrassment seems to motivate people to change their behaviour and build their own latrine without the subsidy as is common in many other programmes.
I have the impression that more and more Knowledge Institutions establish a Valorisation Unit. We have been involved with a couple of them and based on those experiences I like to share some of the steps we advised to follow.
What would you respond to the question: “Why this project?”
Most people would respond with, e.g. … ‘productivity will improve’, ‘raised efficiency’, ‘professionalism increased’, ‘CSR mainstreamed’, but also because researchers have a ‘brilliant idea’, there are ‘funds available’, the ‘management wants this project’, etc, etc. Actually creative people will generate endless potential benefits …
With the upcoming OPEN DAYS organized by the Committee of REGIONS of the European Commission, several conglomerates struggle with acquiring focus and quality presentations for assuring sessions with concrete benefits for the participants, one of the instructions by the Commission.
Erik Kijne
After 15 years in Cooperative Training in Zambia and in the Tropical Dairy sector in Indonesia and Tanzania, Erik realised the serious problems with PLANNING of PROJECTS and thus specialised in the facilitated participatory multi-stakeholder Logical Framework Analysis and Planning (LFA) methodology.