SteppingStones&SteppingStonesPlusanditsnewdaughterprogramme,SteppingStoneswithChildren,arebothnowpublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing-h9p://7nyurl.com/PAPStStwC
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Hereisabriefintroduc7ontotheSteppingStonesmethodology
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Thisdiagramillustratessomeofthemul7pleiden77esthatwecanallhaveas
individuals
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Hereisanotherversionofthissamemodel.In7matePartnerViolence(IPV)is
recognisedbothasincreasingwomen’svulnerabilitytoacquiringHIV:andwomen
whendiagnosedwithHIVcanfaceincreasedIPV.
SteppingStonesisrecognisedtoreduceIPVincommuni7es.
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Thereisnomonopolyonthe“right”wayupamountain.Thisimageshowshowthe
fourpeergroupseachhavetheirownwayupandthatthesedifferentwaysneedto
bemutuallyrespectedbyusall.
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Some people think Stepping Stones has no structure. That is incorrect. There is a clear progressive structure, like a staircase, or like climbing a mountain. There are 5 themes: progression on purpose (from getting to know each other and working together to talking about sensitive subjects, addressing one�s own behaviour and reflecting on ways to change). Stepping Stones was breaking barriers because of its development of critical literacy & routes to address gender norms + its framework for analysis of what is going on in our lives: it is developing participants’ critical literacy skills ie the ability to step outside, reflect on and evaluate their own and others’ lives & on power relationships between themselves and others around them. [Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. Accordingly, songs, novels, conversations, pictures, movies, etc. are all considered texts.]
Herearesomekey‘founda7onstones’oftheSteppingStonesapproach.TheyarenotuniquetoSteppingStonesbutiftheyarenotpresentwithoutstrongreasons(egavailabilityofonlytwopeergroups)thentheprogrammeisnotSteppingStones.
Theapproachofself-reflec7veexperien7allearningiskey.Thisiswhysomepeople
thinkthereisnostructure.Thereisastructure,butitisnotspeltoutexplicitly.Instead,par7cipantshavetoworkoutwhattheyarelearningfarmorefor
themselves.Thisprocessofdeepreflec7onconnectstomuchdeeperprocessesof
learningandchangewithinusthanmoretradi7onalIECmaterials.
Thecoreprogrammeisdesignedtotakeplaceover18sessionswithabout50hourscontact;me.Thereare5addi;onalop;onalsessions.
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Theprocessofpeergroupsworkinginsafeseparateparallelpeergroupsandthen
comingtogethertoshareandcomparewhattheyhavelearnteveryfewsessionsis
whatwecall“fissionandfusion”.Hereisanorganogramofthewholeworkshop
process.Inthisway,bridgesareslowlyandcarefullybuiltacrossthecommunity’s
gendersandgenera7ons.
Again,pleasenote,thecoreprogrammeisdesignedtotakeplaceover18sessionswithabout50hourscontact;me.Thereare5addi;onalop;onalsessions.
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Throughthislink,youcanviewseveralfilmsaboutSteppingStonesanditsuseindifferentcontextsinUgandaandMalawi,includingwhathappenedintheoriginal
communitywhereSteppingStoneswasimplemented,12yearslater.TheTanzanian
documentaryisaboutournewSteppingStoneswithChildrenprogramme.
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Thisisadrawingdonebywomenfromtheolderwomen’speergroup16months
a_ertheoriginaltrainingworkshop.Thedrawingsarealltheirs.Thekeywaswri9en
injusta_erwards.Thegreenprintedwri7ng
Highlightsallthedifferentissuesthatthewomenhadmen7oned.Thisshowsthe
mul7pleposi7veoutcomesthatthewomeniden7fiedinthisdrawing,inresponseto
thebasicques7on:“whathaschangedforyouinthiscommunitysincetheSteppingStonesworkshop?”
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Some of the covers of the translations of the original manual… If you want to translate or adapt Stepping Stones please contact us first for guidelines and support on how to do this properly.
Theprogrammehassincegoneglobaltoover100countries.Adaptedandtranslated
intoatleast30languages,itreducedin7matepartnerviolence(orIPV)inanRCT
conductedbytheSouthAfricanMedicalResearchCouncil.TheWhatWorksfor
WomenwebsitegradesitasGrayIIevidencelevelforeffec7veness,bothin
addressingviolenceagainstwomenandtransforminggendernorms.Womenin
countriesincludingMalawi,India(whereithasalsoendedchildmarriagein
communi7eswhereit’sbeenused)andtheGambia.havethemselvesreportedIPVreduc7on,inresponsetobeingasked“whathaschangedforyou?”.
Jewkesetal2008ImpactofSteppingStonesonincidenceofHIVandHSV-2andsexualbehaviourinruralSouthAfrica:clusterrandomisedcontrolledtrialBMJ2008;337h9p://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a506h9p://www.whatworksforwomen.org/search?uh8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Stepping
+Stones%22
h9p://pag.aids2014.org/flash.aspx?pid=1806
(egCOWLHA/SalamanderTrust2013;Bradleyetal2011,Paineetal2002).
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Otherrecentadapta7onsbySalamanderTrust:a)forpastoralistsinrela7ontosexual
violenceinfragilecommuni7es.PublishedbySalamanderTrustandStrategiesfor
Hope,inpartnershipwithNetworkforSteppingStonesApproaches,Uganda.
b)SteppingStoneswithChildrenandtheirCaregiversfor5-8s,9-14sandtheircaregivers.PublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing.Createdinpartnershipwith
PASADA,DaresSalaam,Tanzania.
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Wewelcomeadapta7onsofthisprogramme,providedyoucontactusforguidelines
andsupportandprovidedthebasicfounda7onstoneshighlightedherearefully
observed.
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Formoreinforma7onaboutevalua7onsoftheprogramme,seethe
www.steppingstonesfeedback.orgwebsite
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Formoreinforma7onseethewww.steppingstonesfeedback.orgwebsite.
Formoreinforma7onaboutSteppingStoneswithChildren,alsopublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing,seeourwebsiteandh9p://7nyurl.com/PAPStStwC
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