{"id":31,"date":"2012-04-10T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewleestrust.org\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-10-25T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T11:44:52","slug":"looking-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewleestrust.org\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Looking to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:19 on April 20th 2012<\/p>\n

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Looking to the Future for the Village Voices for Development Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

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pagivolt (visual aids) used to explain rights to villagers<\/p>\n

While I have been busy over the last week bringing\u00a0the Trust\u2019s\u00a0finances and paperwork up to date, and working on monitoring and future funding questions for Project VVD, the team have been in the field sharing their human rights training with villagers.<\/p>\n

Four training sessions<\/strong>\u00a0were set up to provide the training for the project\u2019s radio listening groups. Only half the listening group members were able to attend in Ambovombe, but in d\u2019Ambonaivo and Ambanisarika almost all the group members attended, and others from outside the group\u00a0participated. Because most villagers are farming or tending cattle, participation in daytime activities is always a little unpredictable, so the turn out for these trainings was encouraging. The participants were given an explanation about the UN Charter and their human rights. They were also\u00a0shown a film in which a young woman experienced a series of life challenges where\u00a0her rights were not respected (she was made to leave school early to go to work, then made to marry to support her family who told her she had no right to her opinions etc ). In fact these sorts of issues are prevalent in Androy where women experience low status and are generally marginalised. This was followed by a debate during which the\u00a0villagers were able to readily identify with the issues and understand the rights in question. They also debated\u00a0what they would have done in this situation. Further training took place specifically on rights to information<\/div>\n

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discussion on rights between village particpants<\/p>\n

and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

In parallel, I have been preparing\u00a0monitoring exercises<\/strong>\u00a0for the team to follow up on the radio programmes which have already been broadcast over the last two\u00a0weeks, in order to gauge the reactions and collect comments. We will aim to gather feedback from villagers, the radio stations and local decision makers on a regular basis so that the project can learn lessons as quickly as possible and respond to issues and opportunities arising as the work progresses.<\/p>\n

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film about human rights shown to VVD village listening groups<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been talking to a UK partner aboutfunding opportunities<\/strong>\u00a0and preparing a schedule for the ALT Mg team to use in country to target national donors. This is part of\u00a0helping ALT Mg prepare longer term fundraising\u00a0strategies for their\u00a0 field programme. I have\u00a0drafted a\u00a0proposal for scaling up the VVD project and\u00a0 begun\u00a0to sound out\u00a0 international donors\/agencies in order to seek opportunities for future\u00a0funding. Although we don\u2019t yet have the results of the pilot phase its important to\u00a0 look ahead to see who may be able to support a scaling up of the project if the outcomes prove positive as this can take many months of negotiation and preparation.<\/p>\n

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Debate about the human rights film – identifying issues<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile in the capital<\/strong>, Tana, the ALT Mg Director, Mme Hanitra, has been meeting with one of the funders (Swiss Embassy) and also with the UN and other national partners. She has also been meeting with Ministers to try and gain their support for the project in order to galvanise stronger\u00a0participation at local level for\u00a0future programming<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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