Notes from the Field #2
Our main focus is on supporting the government bottom-up participatory planning mechanism and process. With this approach we think we can achieve meaningful and lasting development solutions.
#2 Notes from the Field: Sustainable Development: Solutions from Kalimantan
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Community Development
Download attachment(s): [ nff2_sustDev2007-07.pdf ]
2003 - Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA): How to Become a True Believer
Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) is a method for empowering rural or other low tech communities by giving them the tools to analyze their own communities. Such analysis is often much more accurate and insightful than that done by outside professionals from the academic world. The process of analysis also provides local villages and other communities with the basis they need to interact effectively with government and other outside business and institutional organisations.
2006-'07 - Mithra Foundation: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
Mithra Foundation's Annual Report for the years 2006 through 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ mithraAR-2007.pdf ] [ mithraAR-accounts-2006-2007.xls ]
2007 - Center for Culture and Development: Project Construction Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
The Centre for Culture and Development received 1350 GDP from SD Britain for the construction of the building of multi-purpose hall for a supplementary coaching centre Children at Kaligrammam.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_constructionReport-2007.pdf ]
2007 - Center for Culture and Development: Summer Camp Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
Supported by SD Norway, this one week program in a village near Madurai, India, was designed so that children had an opportunity to express themselves freely and genuinely. Here is the report of the camp.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_summerCamp-2007.pdf ]
2007.03 - YUM: A Trip to Kalimantan
In the spring of 2007, Olvia Resksodipoetro of Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) and several others took a trip to Kalimantan where they visited a number of SD related projects.
Download attachment(s): [ kalTrip_2007.pdf ]
2008 - Centre for Culture and Development (CCD): Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
2008 - German Gov Grant to Anisha for Indian Farmers
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Community Development,
SD Project Reports
Anisha has received a sizable grant to help marginalized farmers in a region south of Bangalore, India to maintain a place in the changing Indian economy.
2008 - Social Enterprise: A New Model for Poverty Reduction and Employment Generation
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Community Development,
United Nations
Initiatives in post-communist states often focus on bolstering the private sector or the state, ignoring organizations that combine for-profit activities with social aims. This report suggests ways to promote social enterprises, to make the legal and political environments more favourable, to support social enterprises, and to provide ‘seed money’ and small grants to sustain social enterprise.
2008.10 - Flood in Desert devastates Ghardaïa, Algeria
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Community Development,
Regional Reports
On the day of the celebration of the Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), very
strong flooding took place in all the towns of the valley of the oued
(river) Mzab, of which Ghardaïa is the capital city, at around 600 km
south of Algiers in the middle of the Sahara desert.
2008.10 - Les inondations a Ghardaïa, Alger
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Community Development,
Regional Reports
Le jour de la fête de l'Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), de très fortes
inondations ont eu lieu dans toutes les villes de la vallée de l'oued
Mzab, dont la capitale est Ghardaïa, à environ 600 km au sud d'Alger.
2008.11 - Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters Report
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Community Development,
Meetings and Conferences
“…discussions centered around notions of
resilience… It was not always clear what this meant or looked like. [As if] disaster events are
in some way inevitable… and that
the way to respond to disaster is to find a way to “bounce back.” There
is an assumption that disasters, themselves, are politically
neutral events.”
2009.03 - UN Commission on Social Development
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United Nations,
Community Development
In her article on the 47th UN Session of the Commission on Social Development in New York, Myra Margolin deftly pulls together definitions to clarify our understanding of social integration, what she learned from this meeting, her observations of the UN processes and her experience as a Subud member.
2009.07 - Albadi News: School and Savings & Loan Co-op
All of the students at the Albadi School passed the national exams and a new Savings and Loan Co-operative has just been started.
2009.07 - Dernières nouvelles d'Albadi
2009.07 - Remembering a Call to Prayer
“…[in] a room full of land mine accident survivors, it came back to me: The
long mournful Call to Prayer from my Subud brother Salahin Thom, ‘Allahu Akbar.’
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”