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Nelson Mandela Foundation Community Dialogues Mothomang Diaho November 16 2010. 1. It is a facilitated Process. Selection of Community Based Facilitators Hosting Community Dialogues Documentation & Evaluation Training of Facilitators -Tools. 2. Why Community Conversations?.
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Nelson Mandela Foundation Community Dialogues Mothomang Diaho November 16 2010 1
It is a facilitated Process Selection of Community Based Facilitators Hosting Community Dialogues Documentation & Evaluation Training of Facilitators -Tools 2
Why Community Conversations? Facilitation rather than intervention by experts Influence policy and legislation Community Based Dialogic Approach Social Change Creating Safe spaces for listening, inclusion agreement Engages a human rights approach Replicable: transferable to any issue Meaningful Participatory within cultural contexts Builds on local family and community experiences 3
Community Change Process
Today……. Share lessons from implementing this strategy Securing Commitment from potential partners The Agenda 6
“In the face of a phenomenon so intricately linked into the fabric of a society and as personally and professionally threatening as the HIV epidemic, it may be that only programs which penetrate the soul of a community, organization or nation will be effective”. (Ian Campbell, 1997) 7