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Action Strategies For Community Leadership

By Vivienne Ochee BamgboyeWorkshop Track: Civil Society

Overview• This 2 hour session will equips you with tools for

assessing your capabilities for building social capital and developing community leadership skills.

• During the first part of the session I will be guide you through simple asset mapping exercises.

• In the second part we will focus on personal leadership capabilities by conducting a simple tripartite analysis focusing on 3 main drivers

- Vision - Alignment

- Execution

Content

Asset Based

Philosophy

Mapping the Assets

FacilitatingA

Community Mapping Session

Assessing Leadership

Assets

Asset Based Philosophy


• The traditional starting point for community development is to focus on a community’s needs, deficiencies and problems.

• Commonly, a needs assessment is done in order to identify the problems, and from there create a plan.


The Asset Based strategy suggests an alternative.

Mapping or identification of the personal, local and institutional assets of a community.

Asset Based PhilosophyA needs assessment usually focuses

on problems : such as unemployment, poverty, crime and illiteracy, while ignoring the assets

that exist in the community

“Needs-based" assessments tend to lead to community dependence

rather than community development.

The problems seem insurmountable and people are often overwhelmed

Needs/ DeficitsNeeds Assessment

Unemployment

Illiteracy

Broken Families

Slum Housing/Homelessness

Drop Outs

Street Gangs/Militancy Groups

Crime

Sickness/Diseases

Poverty

Child Abuse

Asset vs Needs

• A lot of communities face a huge range of challenges.

• A "needs-based" approach tends to lead fragmented patchwork of tokenistic welfarist interventions that are not appropriated to the culture or the dynamics of that particular community.

• ‘Needs- based’ do not contribute to building the capacity of the community or empower individuals to be self-sufficient.

Case Studies From Africa

• Social Impact Assessment of Blighted Communities• World Bank Assisted• Niger Delta Development Commission• Niger Delta Ministry• RSSDA• DFID• European Union• IOC’s and other private sector CSR initiatives• MDG• State Government Social Development Initiatives• Religious Institutions Social Care Initiatives

Case Studies From Africa

Much of the aid spent does not translate into sustainable development. WHY?


• An asset based approach is MORE effective because it acknowledges and values existing resources and allows agents of change to build on this foundation.

• When working with marginalized/blighted communities it is particularly valuable to use an asset based approach.


Asset Based Community Development

A process used to mobilize a community to use its assets to

develop a plan to solve its problems and improve residents'

quality of life

Community AssetsPeople, places, relationships,

and lore that can be harnessed and used to bring about the

most equitable functioning of a community.

Community Assets

• Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Personal Contacts• Personal Values

Individual Assets

• Religious Institutions• Cultural Groups• Cooperatives/Collaborative

Groups/Associations

Community

• Schools• Businesses• Communal Green Spaces• Recreational Facilities

Institutional

Mapping The Assets

Mapping The Assets/Potentials

What is Mapping?

• Mapping – is a participatory planning tool that engages members of a community in exploring their assets within the physical and social environment.


1. Each community has assets to be preserved and enhanced.

2. These assets can be used by leaders as the foundation from which to build a positive future.

3. Combining community assets creates a synergy that increases the capacity of the community to meet the needs of its residents.


1. The information collected through this asset-mapping process may also be used as the foundation for many other processes:

Strategic Planning Mobilization Economic Development.

Mapping The Assets – The Process

• Community leaders start with a clear commitment to discovering a community's capacities and assets.

• The asset-based approach does not remove the need for outside resources

• It makes their use more effective by: – Starting with what is present in the community– Concentrating on the agenda-building and problem-solving

capacity of the residents– Stressing local determination, investment, creativity, and

control

Mapping The Assets – The Process

• Is not a case of developing a simple inventory.

• The purpose is to create a concrete output – a map, either in paper or web based format, which can be incorporated into formal and/or informal planning processes.

• A 'mapping' process is designed to promote connections or relationships between:– individuals– individuals and organizations– organizations and organizations.

Mapping Connections

Natural Resources

SkillsKnowledgeExperience

Businesses

Community Services

Schools/Religious Groups

The Assets/Potentials

Community assets include:• Skills, knowledge, talents and experience of local residents• Community associations, many of which provide benefits

far beyond their mandate• Businesses• Schools, churches, libraries and other institutions that

operate within the community• Community services such as police, fire, parks and

recreation services• Other social services and community organizations E.g

Women's Associations, • Physical structures; e.g. land, real estate, community halls • Natural resources; e.g. river, trees, green space

Facilitating A Mapping Session

Mapping Techniques

• Visualizations - A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable reflective experience than a mere verbal or textual description.

• Nonverbal techniques– photographs– videotape [and maps]

Cut through language difficulties and reveal feeling and concepts that otherwise do not surface.”

Mapping Techniques

1. Start with the history of your community

2. Mission/Vision3. Primary Goals and Objectives

Mapping Techniques

1. What will the mapping address?2. Why is it compelling?3. What approaches do you (collectively)

suggest to improve the situation?4. How are your suggestions culturally

appropriate or relevant?5. What groups of the community will be

useful for the intervention?6. What resources do they have?7. How will it be used?

Mapping Techniques

Objective Critical Success Factors

Objective 1.

Objective 2.

Objective 3.

Objective 4.

Objective 5

CSF

• The limited number of areas in which results, if they are satisfactory, will ensure overall performance.

• They are the few key areas where things must go right for the Vision to be realised for the mission to flourish.

• If results in these areas are not adequate, the efforts for the period will be laborious and wasted ."

Facilitation Resource ToolDream Tree & Visioning ExerciseThe Dream Tree represents your hopes for an ideal future in their community. Eg. What would a fulfilled community look-like? What does a sustainable Nigeria look like?

Each part of the tree will represent different values they have for the ‘ideal future’ in their community. For example: the roots may represent large values such as culture, sustainability, poverty alleviation etc.

The trunk of the tree may represent programs or resources in the community that could help to achieve these values (eg. Youth Resource Centre), and the branches could be specific outcomes

With sticky notes to write down at least 3 hopes for the future of their community.As a group, share these hopes for the future and use them to create a ‘Dream Tree.’

Step 1 : Dream Tree

Step 2: Mapping

Create your own base mapMaps can be printed off the internet through Google Earth and blown up to a larger desktop size.

Use sticky dots or pins to mark the spaces in the communityYou can use different colored dots to code different categories of assets—blue for recreation, yellow for programs and services, green for safe spaces for children, red for no-go-zones, and orange for cheap/family oriented places, businesses, religious institutions etc. Connect the dots – If these assets are connected and benefit from each

other Use bold lines for influence and thinner lines for dependent assets

• What do you notice about your community?• What are the assets in their community? • How are they distributed? • What is missing that would make their community a better place to

live?

Step 3: Review

As a group, review the mapping exercises completed in Step 2 • What are possible challenges and strengths of facilitating an Asset – Mapping workshop with your community members when you return?What materials do you need for facilitating an asset mapping workshop and what preparation you need to do?

As a group, answer these key questions:Who will the workshop be for?When will the workshop be held?What arrangements need to be made for the mapping?How many people will be included? Ages?How will you assure that a diverse range of backgrounds are included?

Step 4: Community Mapping Guide

1. Ask Community Members to Develop a Large Dream Tree (Collectively)

2. Building on the dream tree exercise, you can now engage the community in creating a vision statement for their community

3. Provide them with sticky notes and ask them to write down three things they feel are fundamental to the future of their community

4. Ask them to stick these words onto a piece of flip-chart paper and then have one person group together the words by key themes (eg. protected environment, clean rivers, sustainable city, active transportation)

5. Lead the group in coming up with common words to describe these key values/ themes. The example on the previous bullet may be called a “Green Lagos,” “Sustainable Lagos” or, “Environmentally Friendly Lagos”

6. Next, as a group, string together the words into a concise vision statement. For example: The people of Lagos envision a community that is green, culturally-diverse, peaceful, and has ample recreation activities.

7. Keep the descriptive words that the members wrote and use them as part of the details on which the community vision is founded

Assessing Personal Leadership Assets

Activity

• Energy is critical to move the project forward.

• This simple exercise will guide you in assessing your personal assets

Activity 1: Body MapsInside the Outline

What are your hopes for participating in BPW?• What personal attributes do you bring to the table?

Outside the outline

• What people do you know in the community?• What resources and supports do you have in your community?

Activity : Body Mapping the Assets : External

What specifically do you wish to do in your community? Who will it benefit ?

Personal Vision

• Crafting a Vision• Execution• Alignment

Your Key Responsibilities

• Crafting a Vision– Remain Open Minded– Prioritize the Big Picture– Be Bold and Long Term Oriented– Test Your Assumption through seeking

counsel from Peers, Subordinates and Mentors

– Test Assumptions by exploring implications and scenarios


• Building Alignment– Clarity – Explaining Rationale– One Voice, shared vision– Exchanging perspectives to agree on

common interests– Being Receptive


• Championing Execution– Personal Drive– Building Momentum– Initiating Action– Providing a Plan–Monitoring Critical Success Factors– Initiating Celebration of Quick wins and

Successes.

Outcomes of Asset Mapping

• Youth Guides• Legal Literacy• Community Policing• Community Child Care Centres• Community Sports Development

Vivienne Ochee Bamgboye Development Consultant

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Concepts(Thought Leadership )

Can Do(Skills )What do I do?What can I do?

Mindfulness(Personality )How do others perceive me?How do I interact with others?What value do I CREATE from my interaction with others?

Mileage(Experience )Where am I coming from?What value have I