Exercises:

Exploring 3 kinds of change - a creative and participative exercise.     Download
A 1-hour exercise for a group to experientially explore the 3 kinds of change described on pages 20 and 107 of the Barefoot Guide.

The NGO as an unique organisational type - role play.          Download
The purpose of this simulation exercise is educational, enabling participants within an NGO or on a course to understand the unique nature and work of NGOs.  It will help people to think about the work, relationships and organisation as well as some of the primary questions and tensions faced by NGOs and practitioners.

Handouts:

The Key Aspects of Sovereign Organisations             Download
Page 15 from the Barefoot Guide -describes the qualties that distinguish sovereign organisations enabling resilience, self-confidence and independence as the basis for interdependence.

Key Principles and Ideas of Organisation             Download
Page 19 from the Barefoot Guide -outlines 4 principles and leading ideas to help guide a developmental practice, to stimulate conversations about where the real work lies.

Seeing the ways organisations change             Download
Page 20 from the Barefoot Guide - describes 3 core processes of change that organisations go through.

Readings:

Reclaiming autonomous food systems: the role of local organizations in farming, environment and people’s access to food - Michel Pimbert
A key contribution to our understanding of the importance of local organisations in addressing the key development  issues of our times          Download

An introduction to Organisation Development for NGOs       Download
This article highlights the capacity needs of NGOs given their role in our social context and further describes a developmental approach to OD work with these organisations

Facilitating the becoming of healthy community       Download
This article seeks to unpack the somewhat illusive concept of ‘community’, probably the most fundamental form of organisation, and what this might mean for a more developmental practice in working with communities

Sovereign Local Organisations and Social Movements -
holding rightful power       Download
This piece expands on the concept of "sovereign organisation" introduced in Chapter One of the Barefoot Guide

Sovereign Organisation - PowerPoint       Download (for this right-click and "Save Target As..." and then load from there)
A powerpoint presentation which argues for a more organisational approach to development

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