A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation by Magee Tim;White Howard; & Howard White

Author:Magee, Tim;White, Howard; & Howard White [Magee, Tim & White, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

I am also going to give them a copy of my schedule—because it is very simple—and it will let them see the approximate dates of the upcoming workshops. I arranged a meeting for next week to present these tools and discuss the launching of the project.

Field Assignment 8 Step 2: Empowering Committee Members to Co-manage the Project

You’ve worked very hard up to this point to build on committee ownership. Until now, this has been largely theoretical: talking about activities that will happen in the future. In Step 2, you will begin the process of engaging community members in the co-management of the project and in the implementation of activities. This will be a capacity building experience for them in preparation for project takeover.

In the last step, you organized the activities that the community has committed to doing, and prepared a simplified presentation of the overall project. You now have the tools that will show them how their activities relate to the global picture of the project.

You are going to begin by developing a clear line of communication with the community committee. Simply meeting with committee members to share the new list of activities, the simplified project outline and the schedule is a good way to begin clear communication. You might discover in this first meeting that your presentation materials are too complex, and that you will need to present them in a different format.

Beginning to agree to do things in support of each other within certain time frames begins the process of co-management. One of the things the community has agreed to do is to organize the location of the workshops on the correct dates. The fact you will discuss this with them begins the communication process; the fact that they will follow through on this activity and that you will show up to facilitate the workshop begins the process of co-management.

The next step of the process is for you to observe which management skills they may be missing, and to ask for regular feedback in your meetings. You should begin making notes about things that they would like to learn about to improve their oversight of project responsibilities. Sharing these management skills with them is something that you can do by demonstration over the span of time, or you may choose to hold a specialized workshop in order to provide specific information (how to collect water fees, simplified bookkeeping, how to hold elections for future committee members). You might want to consider including someone from the committee to be part of your team so that they can see how you do what you do—so that they will be able to do it after you’re gone.

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