GAMEChange Network

Category: Building the Movement for Change

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • 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…

  • 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…