Author: Linda Mayoux
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Symbol Pictures
“A Picture [can be] worth a thousand words.” But drawing is not just ‘pretty pictures for illiterates’. GEMs symbol drawing is a universal visual communications skill to communicate complex issues.
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Songs and Dance
GEMs songs and dances inspire with visions of change, subvert cultural stereotypes, and celebrate new ways of doing things in future. Everyone writes and participates. No one voice leads alone.
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Role-play Dramas
GEMs role-play dramas enable people to experience how other people feel and rehearse being ‘the new me’. Spontaneous improvisation discovers new ways of addressing inequalities and challenges in their lives.
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Advocacy Networking Fairs
Advocacy networking faits are large visioning, assessment and planning events bringing together multiple stakeholders. Collective visioning, sharing experiences and ‘win-win’ planning aims to massively scaling up the movement for change.
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Workshops for Transformation
GEMS workshops for transformation give voice, power and responsibility to participants for their visions and plans. Facilitators ‘guide from the back’. Then participants can become leaders of change back home.
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Champion Peer Sharing
Champion peer sharing with family, friends and community networks is the basis of the movement-building for change. All other levels of facilitation aim to strengthen this movement of champions.
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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:…
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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…
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Empowering Enquiry
Empowering Enquiry: Principles for Advocacy Research Complementing and linked to this participant-led ‘action learning system’ ’empowering enquiry’ is used to collect qualitative and quantitative information for advocacy and other purposes. The best way of collecting this information is generally through well-designed participatory processes and rigorous use of participatory tools. At the same time the sensitivity…