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Nelson Mandela Foundation

Community DialoguesMothomang Diaho

November 16 2010

It is a facilitated Process

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Selection of Community Based Facilitators

Hosting Community Dialogues

Documentation & Evaluation

Training of Facilitators -Tools

Social Change

Community Based Dialogic

Approach

Community Based Dialogic

Approach

Creating Safe spaces for listening, inclusion

agreement

Creating Safe spaces for listening, inclusion

agreement

Replicable: transferable to

any issue

Replicable: transferable to

any issue

Meaningful Participatory

within cultural contexts

Meaningful Participatory

within cultural contexts

Facilitation rather than intervention by experts

Facilitation rather than intervention by experts

Influence policy and legislationInfluence policy and legislation

Builds on local family and community experiences

Builds on local family and community experiences

Engages a human rights

approach

Engages a human rights

approach

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Why Community Conversations?

Community Change Process

Integral Framework

Today…….

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Share lessons from implementing this strategy

Securing Commitment from potential partners

The Agenda

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“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)