GAMEChange Network

Author: Linda Mayoux

  • Participatory Action Learning

    Participatory Action Learning ‘System’ GAMEChange Methodologies are based on action learning by participants in order to improve strategies to progress towards their visions linking: Through the focus on transparency and use of information to improve individual success, the information obtained is typically very rich and reliable because participants have a self-interest in understanding.

  • 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…

  • Champion certification: suggested guidelines

    The champions must have made changes in their own lives – including gender, and not only peer-shared voluntarily with a certain number of people, but more importantly, set off a chain of peer sharing. Suggested criteria and process: Concerns: The challenge is to prevent exclusion, and to prioritise the more marginalised participants to emerge as…

  • 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…

  • Vision Journeys bin

    Vision Journeys are the underlying framework for all GAMEChange empowerment processes. They are SMART strategic planning tools. They incorporate SWOT analysis and are tracked over time to improve future progress.

  • 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 bin

    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…