News from April
Learning together
Capturing good practices with the partners of Cordaid in South Africa
March-April, South Africa
Cordaid, a dutch NGO, has asked the Constellation to support its 14 partners in South Africa to capture good practices. Ricardo Walters and Onesmus Mutuku, two Constellation coaches, started to capture the strengths and beautiful stories from the partners they visited. “Much appreciated was the move away from traditional models of evaluation to a methodology and process that allowed for the “investigated” to set the tone,” said Bernice Roeland, Director of AIDS Response, on of Cordaid’s partners after Ricardo’s visit.
More about the good practices of the partners of Cordaid
Support visits
“The self-assessment is like a mirror”
19-29 April, Ethiopia
This is what a member from a pastoral community in Borana, Ethiopia said. He explained, “The dream and self-assessment help us see ourselves better, so that we can plan how to respond to those things that threaten us.” Constellation coaches and staff members from the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) made the first support visit to teams in Ethiopia since the AIDS Competence Process was introduced in December 2009.
More about the support visit in Ethiopia
Share our inspiration
A Book Project: “Changing our Outlook”
16-17 April, Belgium
SALT inspires many of us, in our private as well as professional lives. Time has come to consolidate the current understanding of SALT among those who practice the approach: what we think we know and what we don’t know. That is why a group of Constellation members want to write a book about essence of SALT, its impact on communities, on facilitators and on institutions. They met in Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, to discuss the book.
SALT visits in Karnataka in November
Are you interested to better understand the Community Life Competence Process? Then, join us on a week of SALT visits in Karnataka, in India. The visits will take place in the first week of November, hosted by the Constellation, IndiaCompetence and Samraksha. We will visit communities that are responding to HIV and other life challenges. We will share more details on the programme in next month's newsletter.
If you are interested, you can already contact rituubnanda[@]gmail.com
Member of the month
“People’s capacities are a never-ending source of energy”
“I think there is nothing like giving back to people the opportunity to believe in their own capacities because this is the best resource we have in this world. For instance, we hear a lot about renewable energies those days but sometimes we forget that people’s capacities are a never-ending source of energy. Also it brings us closer to each other to realize that this is something that we all share in the world: we all have capacities. So let’s join and make the most of it!»
Marion Zibelli is a member of BarnaCompétence and initiator of TB Competence in Spain.
Blog of the month
The strength starts from there… how SALT could be so powerful!!!!!!
In the village of Pulooro, in Indonesia, the head of the village was stealing people’s money. During a SALT visit, Risya Kori explained how people build their own dream for the village and things started to change…
The Constellation
Rituu B. Nanda joined the Constellation Support Team (CST)
Many of you know Rituu through skype, Ning or email. She is a champion in connecting with anyone through the web. Since two years, Rituu has been supporting the CST as a member and a friend. In April, Rituu officially joined the CST and she will join Laurence in supporting the Share Team. She will mainly focus on creating a connection with like-minded organizations, organizing a ‘Community Celebration Day’, work on the book project on SALT (see below), and facilitation of our online community on www.aidscompetence.ning.com. She will work 20% of the time with the CST.
News from National Facilitation Teams
Kenya Competence Trust
Kenya Competence Trust send out its newsletter for the first quarter 2010, with a special feature on April Foster. "All of our action takes us into the local response – where people live, and that is always the place of deepest learning."
Read Kenya Competence Trust newsletter of the first quarter 2010