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You can’t put a latrine there! Innovating through community engagement
Deborah Greebon & Katrina Mitchell MINN IDEAS SUMMIT
October 24, 2014
PROCESS : HOW MATTERS
1. Introductions and consensus
2. Volunteer leaders are trained
3. Volunteer leaders gather info from community
4. Present findings back to community
5. Agree on list of village priorities
Understand the problem
Define the issue
Brainstorm solutions
Explore and test ideas
Plan the action
Implement!
Evaluate
Evolve
“Households need better ways to control the cleaner, healthier
environments.”
12 community leaders design a solution: latrines + handwashing stations + community
education + monitoring committees
“I am changing some of my farming practices from these conversations. For example, I am now farming earlier so I can plant two cycles and really increase my yields.” "Women in my community love this program, because it's helping us do things on our own. We've started a savings and loan group that we run by ourselves, and we make more money now.” "I have learned from (OVP's techniques) that we shouldn't blame God or witchcraft as the causes of our problems but ourselves.”
Mission OneVillage Partners engages villagers in
Sierra Leone to meet their needs and build skills for self-reliance.
Vision
OVP envisions thriving, self-reliant communities throughout rural Africa.
• Power over, power with and power to empower. • Creating the space, an experience, in which the
community determines for itself its priorities, issues, opportunities, future scenarios and what success looks like.
• Context is self-mobilizing ACTION. • Solutions oriented. • Reflecting back. • Focus on what THEY can do • Real choice
Service Delivery Model
Empowerment Model
PRO • Quick • Good for relief
work
• Lasts longer • Layered approach • Fosters resilience
CON • Extractive • May create bias • May create
distrust
• Takes longer • Funding?