The overall process involves a movement away from the classic
manipulation and dominance mode towards a more humanistic animation and
facilitation mode.
· Start from where people
are - their experiences, knowledge, perceptions and rhythm of work and
thought
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· rather than from a
preconceived political agenda or an externally conceived set of
assumptions
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· Stimulate the people
(animation) to undertake self-analysis of their life situations (a
self-inquiry into the economic, social, cultural environment in which
they live) and help them derive from such self inquiry facts, figures
and conclusions to serve as an intellectual base for initiating changes
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· rather than the use of
a closed framework of analysis or a social analysis carried out by
outside intellectuals
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· Assist the people to
organize themselves and to create their own organizations
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· rather than organizing
people into externally determined structures to serve goals set up by
outsiders
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· Facilitate the actions
for change decided by the People's Organizations, & in particular
assist them to deal with logistical and practical problems with which
they may not initially be fully equipped to cope
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· rather than
implementation of externally conceived projects/programs
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· Stimulate and assist
the POs to carry out self-reviews of their activities, including any
failures, and to plan future actions
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· rather than monitoring
and evaluation carried out by outsiders
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· Conscious measures
taken by the external agent to make his/her role progressively redundant
in order to pave the way for and thus ensure self-reliant capacity build
up of the POs
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· rather than attempting
to provide continued leadership and patronage or to project one's own
image
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· Such a phasing out
would necessarily require assistance in developing local cadres who
could eventually replace the external agents
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· rather than the use of
a large number of external agents, which is costly and usually requires
access to foreign funds.
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