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capacity building?
Related to country: Malawi

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recently i had a discussion with a fellow youth worker on capacity building. she is planning on establishing a local youth based group which is aimed at looking at their immediate needs and facilitating the stakeholders to be accountable to their responsibilities. so she was saying what she needs most is capacity building for her group. and the discussion was centered on capacity building on what? i mean when you are developing a group among almost semi-literate youths in a developing country, they need capacity building on what? on group management? on conflict management? on stakeholder analysis? on what? or on all of the above? and taking into consideration on their literacy levels, how far can they take their role ? with the language barrier and large gap in education levels should they be taught to approach as high stakeholders as cabinet ministers? we end up more confused than when we were beginning the discussion.

August 21, 2008 | 1:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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youth network
Related to country: Malawi

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i have been away for the past two weeks working in various villages on our food security project. the project requires that we empower the villagers to formulate village action plans and establish committees that will help to implement those action plans. however i noted the there are so many projects which require the villages to implement various action plans through various committees. these projects come as independent projects and are not in any way linked to make the rural people understand them. most projects are introduced in a village without a stakeholder analysis and the people are told to do the very same things over and over without understanding the purpose behind it. for instance in this particular village the government requires them to make a village development plan as a requirement to access funding through decentralization, an agricultural project requires them to make a committee to access subsidized fertilizers, so does other sanitation, agricultural, food security, community police, an several other projects. my many concern is for the youths because they are the ones mostly active in these committees. and after talking to one young man who is in over three committees at once i noted that he was confused at what his role is in development as a whole. he explained that by the end of the day the people view participation in projects as a waste of time because they no longer meet the requirements of the donors. i therefore wish all donors would first do a stakeholder analysis in the particular village the are about to work in. and if possible co-implement project that have same objectives. and let us minimize these committees we are forever establishing in the villages. they are confusing.

August 20, 2008 | 2:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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the international trade fair
Related to country: Malawi

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i was at the international trade fair this week and i think the youth are coming up. most of the people who were coming to visit the stands were the youth. but i was mostly encouraged by some few youths who were responsible for several exhibitions. but i think we did not have a lot of youths who were exhibiting their products. but i think generally we can say the youth are coming up. because i met a few of youths like from bvumbwe vegetable growers who were looking for markets. i also met some youths from chancellor college who have some theater group and were looking for NGO's to use them for disseminating their messages. however i would like to see alot of youths displaying their products like art and furniture. i think its high time the youth know the importance of marketing themselves and telling stakeholders how they can be useful. instead of just complaining that the youth are not being used. and that the skills of youths are not being fully utilized. a big up to all the youths who are taking an initiative to expose themselves especially those taking part at the trade fair, the road to being used is to tell the stakeholders that we are available.

May 21, 2008 | 7:00 AM Comments  0 comments

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th media and development
Related to country: Malawi

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i was listening to the state broadcaster last night and i think politicians are abusing the role of the media in development. the state broadcaster has the role to be independent and inform the rural masses out there who depend entirely on the radio for all their news. most illiterate people will believe all that is said on radio as the gospel truth because they can not compare the news from newspapers or other mediums because they don't have access to them. and if all we inform them is pro-government whether it is right or wrong i think we are abusing their right to correct information. and maybe the broadcasters will argue that their budget comes from the government and they cant possibly be anti government. my suggestion would be why don't we do the pro government programmes. but present the news as honest as possible so that those who entirely depend on state broadcasters for news has a dose of true news? why don't we have reporters trained and skilled to know when to do propaganda programmes and when not to? honestly am not against pro government programmes on state radio. but its disturbing when everything is pro-government and the truth is not told anymore! a big up to journalist who are dedicated to presenting news in a fair and true manner despite their political affiliations! people out there depend on u for professional journalism!

May 16, 2008 | 4:17 AM Comments  1 comments

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youth initietives
Related to country: Malawi

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my country is going through a lot of political instability at the moment and wondering what role the youth can take at this whole impasse. every time politicians divert away from discussing development in parliament an concentrating on purely political issues am concerned. and maybe i shouldn't be. what do others think? should we really depend on politics to develop or should we start looking for other ares for development? we have other areas like the private , bussines sectors or even the ngos. but maybe these depend on government and foreign aid for their finances. maybe its time we concentrate more on NGO's for development. if NGO's become effective and sustainable maybe they can be able to concentrate entirely on development without being distracted on other issues like politics

May 15, 2008 | 1:49 AM Comments  0 comments

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