Learning Objective: To prioritise the lessons of the previous 8 experiences and reflect on how they will impact your future communication for development and NRM work.
Below is a chart on which you can write the key lessons or important points you were asked to note down at the end of each experience.
Experience 1 Community Based Natural Resource Management - Namibia Theme: Principles and Action Learning Objective: To improve participants' understanding of the relationship between differing communication principles for effective change, and the planning and organisation of their actions. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 2 Pastoralist Communication - Kenya Theme: Voices and Action Learning Objective: To advance participants' understanding of effective communication strategies, where substantive action is sourced in the voice and perspective of the people most affected. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 3 Indigenous Forest Management - Cambodia Theme: Issue Analysis for Action Learning Objective: To expand participants' skills at analyzing the issues to be addressed by the communication initiative. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 4 Recovering from Conflict - Viet Nam Theme: Contextual Analysis for Action Learning Objective: To improve participants' skills at analyzing the contexts for change. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 5 Internet Radio - Sri Lanka Theme: Culture and Action Learning Objective: To expand participants' awareness of the relationship between culture, context and strategy, in developing effective communication initiatives. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 6 Regional Networking - Costa Rica and Nicaragua Theme: Behavioural or Social Action Learning Objective: To develop participants' ability to understand the relation between individual behaviour change and structural/social obstacles or supports to that change. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 7 Creating Local Organic Markets - Turkey Theme: Education or Dialogue for Action Learning Objective: To improve participant's ability to understand key differences between approaches emphasising education or dialogue and the programmatic implications of those emphases. My key lessons: 1.
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Experience 8 Environmental Education and Communication Project: El Salvador, The Gambia, and Jordan Theme: Innovation and Action Learning Objective: To heighten participants' critical skills at matching the requirements for action with the context for that action. My key lessons: 1.
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Consider the list you've made above and ask yourself whether these lessons will cause you to change the way you approach your work in the future. If the answer is yes make a few notes below about how your work will change.
Now consider the list again in terms of what you think are the most important lessons to keep in mind in your future work. List them below in order of priority:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. etc
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