GAMEChange Network

Category: Empowerment Methodology

  • 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.

  • Reaching for the Sun: PALS Adventures and Challenges

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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:…

  • 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;…

  • 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.

  • 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…