Author: Linda Mayoux

  • Reaching for the Sun: PALS Adventures and Challenges

  • Songs: Swahili

    Leadership Song By champions from Tanzania and Kenya Tanzania Tunaanza: Vision Journey Song Gender Balance Tree We are starting our plans Tunaanza Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhp7L4LylE Gender Balance Poem: Gender Balance Poem Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAlyL6f8GjU Kenya Tutangazeni: let us start Tutangazeni Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHfMfx6y_w Kazi Na Usawa: Gender Balance Tree Kazi Na Usawa Mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9htLWnlwTY We Are The Champions:…

  • Notebooks

    The basic principle of PALS is that people need to really value their learning, and that money should not be wasted producing thousands of manuals and toolkits given out for free that people do not use. Only the first champions are given notebooks. Then in the peer sharing process other people buy their own. One…

  • Case Story suggested guidelines: Tanzania

    We need: some short welcome messages from champions for the Swahili Karibu page and for the beginning of the page on each process – to make things welcoming and human to visitors Photos: general environment and context, crops, richest and poorest houses, markets people with their house and economic activities – particularly anything unusual. Or extremely…

  • Organisational Mainstreaming

    Organisational mainstreaming builds on and links with the community-level process. Staff are trained by the champions, and then have a role later in monitoring and supporting service improvement and/or advocacy on issues arising from the community process. The mainstreaming process follows the same stages integrated with the community process: Catalyst Inception meetings (1-3 days before the…

  • Microfinance links

    https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/microfinance-is-dead-long-live-microfinance RWEE report Adding GALS into the implementation model considerably increases the JP RWEE positive impact on women empowerment and even to some extent offsets the disempowering effect of the reduction in leisure time available for women because of greater engagement in income generating activities due to more equal distribution of domestic tasks.http://mptf.undp.org/document/download/21204 microfinance: revolution…

  • Same Exchange Workshop February 2013

    A Champions Exchange Workshop was held in February 2013 to review experience and progress on visions, gender balance and sharing the GALS methodology since the catalyst workshops in November 2013.   This brought together: champions from each of the Vuasu Primary Cooperatives – they cannot normally meet as a group because of very large distances between…

  • Phase 3: Annual Review And Sustainability Plan

    After 1 year an Annual PALS@Scale Review and Sustainability Planning Workshop agrees or at least initiates a sustainability plan for further deepening gender and livelihood changes, strengthening leadership and scaling up for the following year. Achievement review brings together aggregated information on achievements on: core aims (eg livelihoods, health etc) to establish the local business/efficiency case for PALS;…

  • Copyright and Usage

    © Linda Mayoux 2019 Unless otherwise stated on the relevant document, all materials on this website are copyright of Linda Mayoux. My aim is to retain  free usage of the original source documents and best practice in the methodology as part of a social and gender justice movement. To prevent certain unethical practices that have…