Category: Community Engagement

Community Conversation: Lessons in Monitoring and Evaluation in Vanuatu

Vanuatu Vanuatu is a beautiful country comprising 86 beautiful tropical islands in the middle of the Pacific. The people of Vanuatu, Ni-Vanuatu or Ni-Vans for short, are possibly the friendliest, welcoming people to be found anywhere in the world. I …

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Connection, community and agency: Building a village preschool in India

All theory aside – what’s it really like to work in a rural village in India? In a world of increasingly changeable external forces, how do you engage the community, overcome cultural and language barriers and build enough trust to realise a project together? What unexpected outcomes might emerge?

Defined by a bushfire: Are pre-conceived concepts of ‘community’ colouring attempts to facilitate post-disaster recovery?

Bushfires do not differentiate. Their destructive path is not defined by a reasoning of who lies in it, their impacts more often bring community together, rather than separate. Can the same be said about the support available to communities following such an event? Are pre-conceived concepts of ‘community’ colouring attempts to facilitate post-disaster recovery?

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