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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Re: shiko-chan's comment on NGOs...
| Posted by shiko-chan @ 06/14/2005 11:14 PM PDT |
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hear, hear. i think meron din namang mga programs na ganon...marami-rami rin ata yung mga NGOs, both local and int'l, na gumagawa ng mga ganyang bagay sa mga communities, both rural and urban. from what i've heard, i'm pretty sure usually ang kulang lang talaga sa mga ganong efforts is that, mainly, (1) hindi sila organized among themselves, so minsan hindi nagiging efficient ang pagse-setup ng programs at nasasayang minsan ang resources; and (2) kulang ng people with the skills and experience necessary. baka pwede kang makapaghanap ng mapaparaan dito? since interesado ka pa naman at lahat. :)
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posted by g8krazzer:
Thanks shiko-chan.
Yeah, that's very true. Marami ang NGOs na hindi talaga designed to do community development initiatives na pilit na pilit ang programs nila. Kaya karamihan puro "social welfare" na lang o tipong magbibigay na lang ng short-term relief. Okay lang yun. Pero this is the key-word: long-term.
Community organizing is a long-term task. Dapat talaga we have to count the cost. Ready tayo to embark on something na kahit might lead to a lot of failures. Pero na-process ko na yun at hindi na ako afraid to fail. Kase I know I never fail if I learn from difficulties.
Ang isa lang na practice na I try to observe is to do an"immersion" first in a target community. That means, kailangan ko munang maintindihan mabuti ang mga worldviews ng mga tao bago ako magtatalak ng mga programa. Dito madalas kase sumasabit ang mga maraming NGOs. Nasama na rin ako sa mga approaches na kala mo kung sinong outsider ka na mandidikta sa kung ano ang dapat talagang gawin sa mga tao.
Kaya it took me a great deal of help to learn about Participatory Learning Approaches in doing community developments.
Right now, the most enjoyable part of community organizing, I believe, is when I see each person empowered enough to be involved in the decisionmaking. And when a good facilitation is observed, talaga namang excited lahat na m,agparticipate sa programs.
All in all pa rin ang paniwala ko na God has equipped all of us with such a creativity to embark on something without necessarily covering all the bases. Kase nga wala naman talagang akong makitang isang Masters in its truest sense ng isang community. At kahit na meron akong MA in Community Development, it really doesn't mean any thing.
I may present good ideas or a well-studied programs but still its all up for the people to find their readiness in embracing the ideas.
I have learned early that life is an on-going process and we never arrive or put people and the community in a box and then treat them as a "laboratory." I hate putting people in the box now. Dati kala mo kung sino akong magaleng. Pero ngayon, each person complements another person and then they all complement the whole community.
When I realized about that hindi na ako natatakot harapin ang differences ng mga opinions kase panalo talaga pag nadala mo ang mga tao sa isang peacemaking process na ang initial goal is para maintindihan nila na kailangan pa rin nila ang mga taong kahit kakaiba ang pananaw sa kanila para umunlad.
I don't know how to elaborate more, pero I should quit muna here while I'm ahead:)
Best regards.
Posted at 02:22 am by g8krazzer
| | | shiko-chan
June 16, 2005 11:46 PM PDT
woohoo! applause! :)
astig, good luck nga talaga. i think it's also nice that you should be publicizing your ideas and decisions (and maybe when the time comes, your efforts? :) on a medium like the Net where plenty of other people can see it. social contagion would be nice here. :)
i don't know kung kasama yun concept of immersion or what you call Participatory Learning Approaches sa MA mo... pero i think, despite the mistakes in this regard by well-meaning agencies and organizations in the past, ang galing na lumalaganap na yung idea nito. something's happening, whether the cynics and the gun-jumpers and the hasty-generalizers notice it or not... somehow i like to think that there IS progress being made, if only on the conceptual level just yet--but at any rate, that's where everything has to start, diba? :)
even the fact i think that Community Dev't-esque academic programs are being offered by a growing number of institutions these days speaks to a certain, increasingly real possibility of what you do imply is the crucial thing--people embracing good ideas. :) nakaka-encourage. :)
hehe daldal ko noh? :p | |
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