1 Nelson Mandela Foundation Community Dialogues Mothomang Diaho November
It is a facilitated Process 2 Selection of Community Based Facilitators Hosting Community Dialogues Documentation & Evaluation Training of Facilitators -Tools
Social Change Social Change Community Based Dialogic Approach Creating Safe spaces for listening, inclusion agreement Replicable: transferable to any issue Meaningful Participatory within cultural contexts Facilitation rather than intervention by experts Influence policy and legislation Builds on local family and community experiences Engages a human rights approach 3 Why Community Conversations?
Community Change Process
Individual Internal Change Individual External change Collective Internal Change Collective External Change Integral Framework
Today……. 6 Share lessons from implementing this strategy Securing Commitment from potential partners The Agenda
7 “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)