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2008

CID 2008 Major Event: Power and Development Hui

A subtle and nuanced understanding of power is a critical skill for all parts of the development sector, if we are to embark on, and maintain, positive, participatory partnership relationships and promote equitable, sustainable development.

As a result, CID's Training Programme is excited to organise a three-day residential hui on Power and Development. The hui will involve a variety of NGO and NZAID participants from Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as representatives from many NGOs and CBOs across the Pacific, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Power, in all its multiple dimensions, shapes people's ability to participate in their communities. Its dynamics influence whose rights get fulfilled and how society distributes the benefits of development.

Hence, understanding, analysing, challenging and building power is a vital and continuous process necessary for effective community-based development efforts. Yet power turns out to be one of the more uncomfortable and difficult topics to address in our work.

Dates: 10th - 13th of March, 2008

Venue: New Zealand International Campus (Wellington) Ltd
Somme Road
Heretaunga
PO Box 47-004
Trentham
Wellington
New Zealand
Ph: +64 4 918 3600
Fax: +64 4 918 3642
Email: enquiries@nzic.ac.nz
Web: http://www.nzic.ac.nz/

Resource people: Valerie Miller and Peggy Healy

Information

Information sheet for all delegates (accomodation, addresses, payment details)
Workshop concept sheet

Background reading

Shifting Power to Make a Difference, by Robert Chambers and Jethro Pettit (4mb pdf version)
Summary of main points from Shifting Power, Valerie Miller (doc version)

Resources

Power and Development, by Valerie Miller, adapted from A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics by Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller, 2002.

The Rainbow, based on a Native American legend, by Anne Hope, 1978, adapted

Contextual Analysis definitions, adapted from A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics by Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller (2002)

Contextual Analysis grid, adapted by Peggy Healy from A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide by Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller (2002)

Power Matrix, adpated from VeneKlasen, Lisa with Valerie Miller. A New Weave of Power, People & Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation.( 2002)

Poetry and Quotes on Power and Development

Exercises

Early Messages Exercise

Organisational Drama Series: Clips from the "Reel" World

Council for International Development