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Learn about the facilitated process of selecting and training community-based facilitators for hosting dialogues, influencing policy, and encouraging social change. Explore why community conversations are essential and how they can create safe spaces for engagement within cultural contexts. Discover an integral framework for community change and share lessons on implementing strategies for meaningful participation.
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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