Supporting Development and Stability Operations Using Online Tools

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Supporting Development and Stability Operations
Using Online Tools

• Stephen Fawcett sfawcett_at_ku.edu
• Jerry Schultz jschultz_at_ku.edu
• Christina Holt cholt_at_ku.edu
• Work Group for Community Health and Development
• World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
• University of Kansas http//communityhealth.ku.edu
  

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Todays Webcast

• Building capacity for development and stability
  operations
• DemoCommunity Tool Box http//ctb.ku.edu
• DialogueBuilding capacity, implications for COIN
  lessons learned

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Expanded Roles in Conflict Areas

• Defense
• Diplomacy
• Development
• People working together to create conditions
• Capacity building

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Development Principles Guiding Stability
Operations (FM 3-07 6 Oct 2008)

• Creating Conditions for Lasting Peace
• Core mission
• Partnership
• Collaborate with local partners in all sectors
• Leadership and Ownership
• Build relationships, participation, and
  commitment of local people
• Capacity Building
• Transfer technical knowledge and skills
• to local people and institutions

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Creating Conditions for Development

• Health Promotion (W.H.O. def.)People working
  together to create conditions for improved health
  and wellbeing for all those in the community

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Building Capacity for Development, Locally
Globally

• Ability of people to effect change and
  improvement on important issues
• Over time
• Across concerns

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Building Capacity/Developing Skills Through the
Community Tool Box

• Mission of CTBPromoting community health and
  development by connecting people, ideas, and
  resources
• Freely available Internet-based resource from KU
• Begun in 1994writing one section at a time
• ComprehensiveOver 7,000 pages of how-to
  information (e.g., partnerships, planning,
  evaluation, sustainability)
• Other capabilities Curriculum Workstations for
  collaboration, monitoring and evaluation, etc.

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Capacity/Abilities of Whom?Whose skills matter
in the work of development?

• People
• Professionals (e.g., military, public health)
• Community leaders and members
• Organizations
• Local Governmental Organizations
• NGOs and relief organizations

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Global Community of PracticeWho is using the
CTB?

• Director, Iraqi Civic Action Network (NGO)
• Babylon, Iraq
• Medical practitioner setting up a community-based
  organization
• Nigeria, Africa
• Community organizer and village pastor
• Sumatra Island, Metro, Indonesia
• Community organizer Head, local NGO
• Liberia, West Africa
• Leadership trainer for local organizations
• Caracas, Venezuela

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What are global CTB users saying?
It is really a very helpful site for those who
want to contribute in the development of
community and society. Very good guidelines for
people like me working in this field,
particularly in Pakistan where there is no such
traininga great job, continue serving humanity
with your good ideas. -Syed Abid Gilani,
Islamabad, Pakistan your websitehas given me
a stepwise explanation on the rudiments of
setting up an NGO. -Chidimma Ajayi,
Nigeria The Community Tool Box helps in
guiding us in the design of appropriate training
materials for TOT (Training of Trainers) in the
local community. -Lawrence George
Monrovia, Liberia Training local government
authorities and community leaders on Liberias
post conflict recovery process.
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A resource for building civil society
Iraqi Civic Action Network ICANs mission is
to develop Iraq's civil society groups through
capacity building trainings including
organizational development and advocacy
campaigns, and provide a forum for information
exchange on best practices that lead to their
growth and development. ICAN conducted several
programs aimed to develop and building capacity
of many Iraqi NGOs. we got benefit a lot from
the CTB materials. It helps to develop our skills
and increase our knowledge. We hope that CTB adds
Arabic language to enable many civil society
activists who are indeed to such topics.
-Salah Albedry, Hilla, Babylon IRAQ, Executive
Director of the Iraqi Civic Action Network
(ICAN), an Iraqi NGO established in 2006
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Capacity or ability to do what? Core
competencies for stability tasks

• Creating and maintaining partnerships for
  stabilization (i.e., security, justice, social
  well-being)
• Assessment (e.g., understand concerns,
  grievances)
• Analyzing problems (e.g., identifying key actors,
  root causes, drivers of conflict)
• Developing a framework or model for change
• Developing strategic and action plans
• Building leadership (stakeholder groups)
• Developing an intervention (for goal areas)
• Increasing participation and membership
• Enhancing cultural competence
• Advocating for change (e.g., tactics, facing
  opposition)
• Influencing policy development
• Evaluating the initiative
• Implementing a social marketing effort
• Writing a grant application for funding
• Improving organizational management and
  development
• Sustaining the work or initiative

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Some Challenges/Aims for those doing development
work

• Learn key skills
• Solve problems
• Guidancewhat to do, when
• Access
• To what they need
• When they need it
• At an affordable cost

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Some Valued Functions and Existing Features of
the CTB

• Learn a skill300 CTB how-to sections
• Do the workToolkits for 16 core competencies
• Solve a problemTroubleshooting guide
• Use promising approachesImplement key processes
  (e.g., building collaborative partnerships)
• Connect with othersAsk an Advisor and links to
  related websites
• Monitoring and evaluation (optional) Online
  Documentation and Support Systems

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Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the CTB

• With NGO or University Partner Cultural
  adaptation to reflect issues and context of the
  Region (e.g., U.N. Millennium Development Goals,
  violence)
• With Translation Partner Translation of the more
  than 7,000 page CTB
• Some Priority Languages Arabic (pending),
  French, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian

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Capacity Building in a Global Community
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Common Well
English
English
French
Swahili
Arabic
Hindi
Russian
Mandarin Chinese
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Some COIN Lessons Learned (28 Oct 09)

• Engage the people
• Build relationships
• Understand the local situation
• Seek out the underprivileged
• Build community structures
• Be responsive to the people
• Support good, accountable governance

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Dialogue Building Capacity

• What do people need to be able to do to create
  conditions for a lasting peace?
• How will we assure access to supports for
  learning and doing this work?

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Todays Webcast

• Building capacity for development and stability
  operations
• DemoCommunity Tool Box http//ctb.ku.edu
• DialogueBuilding capacity, implications for COIN
  lessons learned