Glossary

Constellation Glossary

Action planning	The third step of the Community Life Competence Process, for community members to define the actions she will undertake to progress towards their dream.
After Action Review (AAR)	A tool used by facilitation teams to immediately after an 'action', take the time to reflect on what has just happened, so that they can learn from it and can improve their performance.
AIDS Competence	The place or 'state' where individuals, groups and communities are able to deal with the threats and challenges that the AIDS pandemic presents.
AIDS Competence Process	A set of steps to stimulate ownership and facilitate local responses within a community that is striving for AIDS Competence.
Blended Learning	A combination of e-learning and onsite visits to transfer the facilitation skills of the Community Life Competence Process to a facilitation team.
Building the dream	The first step of the Community Life Competence Process for a community to define ‘Where do we want to be?’ The purpose of the step is to allow the community to define a target to aim for even though it might be very distant.
Community	Any group of people sharing a purpose, such as living, working, praying, playing together.
CLCP	Community Life Competence Process
Constellation, The	1. All people involved in local responses. 2. Belgian registered NGO whose mission is to stimulate and connect local responses around the world.
Constellation member	A person that commits to transfer what he or she has learned from local responses to his or her environment.
Constellation coach	A Constellation member who is able to facilitate the CLCP in diverse contexts with the aim to transfer it to others, always as being part of a facilitation team.
Constellation Partner	An organization that implements the CLCP within itself - but has a mission that is different but not conflicting with the Constellation. Partner organisations are users of the approach.
Constellation donor	An organization or individual that provides financial or in kind support without further commitment to the Constellation.
Constellation Support Team (CST)	Team based in Chiang Mai, Thailand that has four functions: 1. Serve as secretariat to the Constellation Board and Voting Members 2. Support the development of member organizations 3. Facilitates the development of the Global Facilitation Team Process (meaning to connect people fullfilling the Share, Learn and Transfer functions around the world) 4. Responds to invitations for starting CLCP
Facilitation team	See SALT team
Indicators	Used during the self-measurement of change to measure progress on certain practices of the self-assessment framework. Communities define their own indicators that for themselves are measurable and verifiable.
Knowledge Fair	Knowledge fairs provide an open space for sharing of human experiences and allow participants to derive common principles from their various responses to HIV or other issues. One of the outputs are Knowledge Assets.
Knowledge Asset	An attempt to synthesize common knowledge of our communities. A Knowledge Asset consists of a set of common principles. Each of the principles is illuminated by particular experiences. And, in turn, each of those experiences is supported by 'deeper' reference material, perhaps documents, video clips and by contacts to people who can give further details. An example of a Knowledge Asset on Acknowledgement and recognition
Learn	One of the three functions of a SALT team which facilitates the continuous learning process in the team to improve the process and its facilitation.
Learning event	A capacity building workshop to transfer the key concepts of the CLCP to new facilitators and practice these together in the field.
Local Responses	Set of actions by a community involving its own resources, and those it mobilizes to address a life threat.
Malaria Competence	The place or 'state' where individuals, groups and communities are able to deal with the threats and challenges that Malaria presents.
Member Organisation	Any organization with a core business in connecting or facilitating the CLCP and its transfer to others. The organisation fully subscribes to the mission and vision of the Constellation, and applies the CLCP in its specific context (national, sub-national, global).
Ning	Internet site of the online community of the Constellation including blogs, forums and videos. People from more than 60 countries exchange experiences, informations and view points on local responses towards aids and other life challenges and learn from each other.
Peer Assist	An event that brings together people with a wide range of experience on a particular problem (or a related problem) with the intent of reflecting on a real problem which their ‘customer’ has.
Practices	The 10 practices of the self-assessment framework that lead to AIDS, malaria Competence, diabetes, etc.
River Diagram	The River Diagram is a way to look at the results of Self Assessments carried out in a range of communities. It allows you to see where a particular community sits within the group.
SALT	An acronym used to remind facilitators to our Way of Working: S stands for Support, A stands for Appreciate, L stands for Learn, T stands for Transfer. SALT is the DNA of the Constellation.
SALT team	A group of people that, together, practice CLCP, and facilitate local responses. A SALT Team supports three functions: Transfer CLCP, Learn and improve CLCP and Share results from its application.
Self-Assessment	The second step in the CLCP where a community assesses ‘Where are we today’? It assesses itself on how competent they are to deal with the challenges of a certain issue (e.g. HIV, Malaria). The key objective of self-assessment is to stimulate discussion around a certain topic.
Self-Assessment Framework	Allows a community to assess itself on 10 practices that lead to Competence with respect to a certain issue (e.g. AIDS, Malaria). A community assesses itself at a level between Level 1 and Level 5.
Self-measurement of change	The fourth step of the CLCP for a community to define ‘Are we making progress?’ This step includes the setting and measuring of own indicators for their actions and measuring progress through repeated self-assessments.
Share	One of the three functions of a SALT team which facilitates the sharing of inspiration and results of CLCP with other communities, organizations and the world through for example newsletters, Ning and other tools.
Stairs diagram	The Stairs Diagram is a way to look at the results of Self Assessments carried out a range of communities. It allows you to see where the potential for learning and sharing is highest between different communities.
Strengths	A strength is any psychological or moral quality that allows people and communities to respond to life challenges. For example: care, change, community, leadership and hope.
Support visit	1. A visit from a facilitation team to a community to accompany their process towards Community Life Competence. 2. A visit from coaches or facilitators to facilitation team to practice the CLCP and learn together in the field.
Transfer	One of the three functions of a SALT team which facilitates the transfer of the Community Life Competence Process to other partners, geographic areas and topics through for example partnerships.
Way of thinking	We believe in people's capacity to identify opportunities and threats. People do respond, take charge, expand, transfer, learn from each other, care and change.
Way of working	See SALT