Category: Implementing a sustainable process

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • 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…