ICA-Peru carries out a 6 month program for the formation of leaders-facilitators for community self-development. The program includes a month of community orientation, 3-weeks of intensive Leadership Formation Training (based in ToP methods) in our Training Center in Azpitia, and 4 months of follow-up implementation support in the communities of the new leaders-facilitators. Our total staff of 15 can schedule 10 of these programs each year, creating about 500 new community leaders-facilitators in about 70 communities.
These Community Self-Development programs are sponsored by companies as part of their social responsibility for the communities near their operations. The big
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change for us in 2012 is that all of the programs through July have been from companies who had called us to do a program. This indicates some acceptance of the effectiveness of the Community Self-Development program. We are especially pleased to be doing two programs for a very high profile project surrounded by a lot of conflict, where we have been asked to give an organized voice to the local people who have been excluded from the dialogue to date. While this is somewhat risky work for our staff, we are excited to see our work coming into mainstream use. Another indicator of change is that we are now being asked to give the same training to the Community Relations staff members of a couple of the companies. |
