GAMEChange Network

Category: in Process

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…