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word "gender" is used to distinguish between two categories, "masculine"
and "feminine." |
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It
should not be confused with the word "sex"
which is used to distinguish between "male" and "female." |
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| Gender,
and its interpretations of what constitutes masculine and feminine differ
greatly between culture and culture, between community and community. |
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Our
concern with gender mainly is focused on how distinctions of gender affect
the distribution of power, economic relations, and social distinctions. |
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| These
are important variables which affect communities, and affect the nature
of the work of every mobilizer. |
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A
mobilizer must (as part of the requirement of learning about a community)
understand what values, attitudes and conceptualizations are shared among
community members. |
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A mobilizer must
also work towards reducing unfair political and economic differences between
the genders, as an important element of community empowerment. See the
training module on Gender.
Also see: Age,
Race and Sex.
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| When
something is created, it is generated (same word root as "Genesis"). |
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An
electric generator takes some other form of energy and converts it to electrical
energy. |
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| To
generate wealth, it must be created. |
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The
most common way is to add
value to something that already has some value. |
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| When
a group identifies its priority problem, you, as a mobilizer explain that
the reverse (or solution) of that problem is the group's priority goal. |
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A
goal is more general than an objective.
Objectives
are derived from goals. |
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(Deutsch:
Ziel,
Español:
meta,
Français: but,
Kiswahili:
lengo,
Português:
meta)
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| The
word governance is much more broad than the word, government. |
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It
is less formal, more encompassing, less legalistic, in meaning. |
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| It
refers to the total pattern of decision making, control, management, co-ordination
and power processes of any organization, such as a community. |
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Good
governance is honest, participatory,
responsive, transparent,
progressive,
equalitarian,
democratic,
respectful of all members, and works on behalf of all the people. |
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| A
grant is basically a gift. |
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As
such it is a transfer
of money. |
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| On
this web site, you will find less than enthusiasm for the giving of grants,
for several reasons. In any income
generating scheme that aims to train participants in how to generate
(create) new wealth, giving grants instead of loans makes them skilled
in receiving gifts rather than skilled in getting loans after/without the
project. |
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Not
sustainable.
Similarly, when helping any community, we face a real problem of creating
and developing an attitude of dependency
if we simply give them grants to obtain their communal services. If we
make them struggle, and contribute to the facility, they are more likely
to become stronger and more self reliant. |
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