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Sensitization Action Development
Sensitization Action Development
Genesis:
Peoples Action for Development (PAD) initiated this meeting inviting grassroots level NGOs from the Southern Districts of Tamilnadu – from Thiruchirapalli to down south Kanyakumari. There were 55 participants from 48 organizations participated in the initial discussion forum. These are very small NGOs who have enough time to think about globalization and its impact. They mostly work at the grassroots level and implementing lot of welfare oriented programmes. Most of them were implementing government schemes without questioning. PAD thought that these NGOs need to be waken up because of the ill effects of globalization experienced by the rural people for a decade. Therefore the first meeting was organized during last October 2002 and facilitated the discussion.
The following are the points motivated the discussion:
The network emerged after the discussion and the realization that there should be a strong linkage between Advocacy and Participatory development. It was felt that it is the high time that the NGOs analyze themselves and realize the values they had in the beginning. Whether they are Voluntary organizations, Peoples movement, Public Service Contractors, Government Non Governmental Organizations etc. The characters of each of these types of NGO was discussed and decided to repair them but few felt it is beyond repair.
The primary functions of the IMF are to ensure the integrity and the functions of the international trade and financial system. Thus it should come as no surprise that the IMF has rather consistently given priority to debit repayment over other objectives in its negotiations with debtor countries. Sometimes it interpreted, probably correctly, as giving higher priority to helping the international commercial banks recover bad loans than toprotecting in the interest of the people of the south. That is IMF’s job.
As experience was gained with SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) and its biases became evident the World Bank moved somewhat more easily to a developmental approach that gave more attention than did the IMF to the growth and to compensatory programmes for the poor. World Bank was offering assistance to indebted countries in negotiating favorable settlements with commercial creditors.
Borrowing countries are normally assured that by generating foreign exchange to repay international debts, they can resort their credit rating and obtain new loans to finance economic growth. Indeed the multilateral have commonly held out the promise of new loans as an incentive for accepting politically unpopular adjustment prescription.
Is new borrowing a solution to the problem or does it merely postpone the day of reckoning. What is international borrowing in general? Is it the key to development progress, as the leading institutions would seem to have us believe?
Conventional development assistance must bear a substantial share of the blame for the increases in poverty, environmental destruction and communal violence experienced by southern countries. This assistance has failed to achieve the reforms that would reduce or eliminate the economic and political dualism that makes substantial contributions to creating and sustaining these conditions. To the contrary, it has all too often served to legitimate and sustain, or even strengthen, these dualistic tendencies.
Therefore the group felt that the developments during 2000s must be driven by a new vision and relay on new sources of leadership. Finally the group felt that this meeting should give birth to a network. The final session for the day was evolving a name to baptize this network. Many names were suggested and finally SINFPAD (Southern Initiative NGO Forum for Participatory Development) was finalized. We were happy because SINFPAD carries PAD’s name as well. This discussion process continued once in every two months. Under SINFPAD’s banner the member organizations have expressed the ill effects of globalization, especially the MNC’s exploitation through many campaigns.
The Southern Initiative NGO Forum for Participatory Development (SINFPAD) is southern districts of Tamilnadu network of several PRA practitioners, nongovernmental organizations, Peoples Movements, and whoever interested in advancing reflection and practice in the area of participatory development. Formed in 2002, the SINFPAD was established as an informal network under the concept of “winning together”.
Our vision:
Promote a philosophy of people’s participation that advocates people’s empowerment and right to define and control their own development, in order to live well and control the factors which effect their lives with the balance between socio-economic development of human potential leading to social justice and equity.
SINFPAD has the following key objectives:
1. To share field experiences are using participatory methods among practitioners, NGOs, Policy makers and academics working in this area.
2. To encourage the adoption of bottom up approaches in any development interventions.
3. To develop understanding of and capacity in various participatory methods and participatory development.
4. To exchange information about participatory development initiatives – e.g. workshops, conferences, publications, capacity building in various participatory methodologies.
5. Connecting it with Participatory Development Practitioners, International Networks, NGOs, academic institutions etc.
SINFPAD PRINCIPLES:
• Building interest in participatory development among NGOs, Peoples Movements, and with younger development practitioners
• Being open to and inclusive of new members
• Promoting transparency, the sharing of ideas and experiences
• Promoting Participatory Development as a philosophy and a transformative process rather than as a set of methods or tools
• Demonstrating a commitment to a process of social and personal change
• Encouraging individual and collective ownership of activities
• Advocating the genuine participation of people in their own developmentActivities of SINFPAD
• Networking and exchanging experience and opportunities with all its members.
• Documentation of participation development events and experiences by SINFPAD members and practitioners
• Linking to PD Forum for Global action and related networks and sites.
• Advocating the genuine participation of people in their own development
• Supporting participatory initiatives in Tamilnadu, India by facilitating small grants through the various donors.
• Support activities that help establish standardized participatory development assessment methods and share technical resources to transfer knowledge of sustainable resources activities that are livelihood related.
Peoples Action for Development (PAD) initiated this meeting inviting grassroots level NGOs from the Southern Districts of Tamilnadu – from Thiruchirapalli to down south Kanyakumari. There were 55 participants from 48 organizations participated in the initial discussion forum. These are very small NGOs who have enough time to think about globalization and its impact. They mostly work at the grassroots level and implementing lot of welfare oriented programmes. Most of them were implementing government schemes without questioning. PAD thought that these NGOs need to be waken up because of the ill effects of globalization experienced by the rural people for a decade. Therefore the first meeting was organized during last October 2002 and facilitated the discussion.
The following are the points motivated the discussion:
The network emerged after the discussion and the realization that there should be a strong linkage between Advocacy and Participatory development. It was felt that it is the high time that the NGOs analyze themselves and realize the values they had in the beginning. Whether they are Voluntary organizations, Peoples movement, Public Service Contractors, Government Non Governmental Organizations etc. The characters of each of these types of NGO was discussed and decided to repair them but few felt it is beyond repair.
The primary functions of the IMF are to ensure the integrity and the functions of the international trade and financial system. Thus it should come as no surprise that the IMF has rather consistently given priority to debit repayment over other objectives in its negotiations with debtor countries. Sometimes it interpreted, probably correctly, as giving higher priority to helping the international commercial banks recover bad loans than toprotecting in the interest of the people of the south. That is IMF’s job.
As experience was gained with SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) and its biases became evident the World Bank moved somewhat more easily to a developmental approach that gave more attention than did the IMF to the growth and to compensatory programmes for the poor. World Bank was offering assistance to indebted countries in negotiating favorable settlements with commercial creditors.
Borrowing countries are normally assured that by generating foreign exchange to repay international debts, they can resort their credit rating and obtain new loans to finance economic growth. Indeed the multilateral have commonly held out the promise of new loans as an incentive for accepting politically unpopular adjustment prescription.
Is new borrowing a solution to the problem or does it merely postpone the day of reckoning. What is international borrowing in general? Is it the key to development progress, as the leading institutions would seem to have us believe?
Conventional development assistance must bear a substantial share of the blame for the increases in poverty, environmental destruction and communal violence experienced by southern countries. This assistance has failed to achieve the reforms that would reduce or eliminate the economic and political dualism that makes substantial contributions to creating and sustaining these conditions. To the contrary, it has all too often served to legitimate and sustain, or even strengthen, these dualistic tendencies.
Therefore the group felt that the developments during 2000s must be driven by a new vision and relay on new sources of leadership. Finally the group felt that this meeting should give birth to a network. The final session for the day was evolving a name to baptize this network. Many names were suggested and finally SINFPAD (Southern Initiative NGO Forum for Participatory Development) was finalized. We were happy because SINFPAD carries PAD’s name as well. This discussion process continued once in every two months. Under SINFPAD’s banner the member organizations have expressed the ill effects of globalization, especially the MNC’s exploitation through many campaigns.
The Southern Initiative NGO Forum for Participatory Development (SINFPAD) is southern districts of Tamilnadu network of several PRA practitioners, nongovernmental organizations, Peoples Movements, and whoever interested in advancing reflection and practice in the area of participatory development. Formed in 2002, the SINFPAD was established as an informal network under the concept of “winning together”.
Our vision:
Promote a philosophy of people’s participation that advocates people’s empowerment and right to define and control their own development, in order to live well and control the factors which effect their lives with the balance between socio-economic development of human potential leading to social justice and equity.
SINFPAD has the following key objectives:
1. To share field experiences are using participatory methods among practitioners, NGOs, Policy makers and academics working in this area.
2. To encourage the adoption of bottom up approaches in any development interventions.
3. To develop understanding of and capacity in various participatory methods and participatory development.
4. To exchange information about participatory development initiatives – e.g. workshops, conferences, publications, capacity building in various participatory methodologies.
5. Connecting it with Participatory Development Practitioners, International Networks, NGOs, academic institutions etc.
SINFPAD PRINCIPLES:
• Building interest in participatory development among NGOs, Peoples Movements, and with younger development practitioners
• Being open to and inclusive of new members
• Promoting transparency, the sharing of ideas and experiences
• Promoting Participatory Development as a philosophy and a transformative process rather than as a set of methods or tools
• Demonstrating a commitment to a process of social and personal change
• Encouraging individual and collective ownership of activities
• Advocating the genuine participation of people in their own developmentActivities of SINFPAD
• Networking and exchanging experience and opportunities with all its members.
• Documentation of participation development events and experiences by SINFPAD members and practitioners
• Linking to PD Forum for Global action and related networks and sites.
• Advocating the genuine participation of people in their own development
• Supporting participatory initiatives in Tamilnadu, India by facilitating small grants through the various donors.
• Support activities that help establish standardized participatory development assessment methods and share technical resources to transfer knowledge of sustainable resources activities that are livelihood related.
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