Seeking for Alliances

When the people are talking about the core team in the community they will be interested in getting involved in your work. They may not work as much as you but please keep in mind that we need many people to participate with us as possible. Making a difference is a hard work and it is moving quickly forward if we make connection with many people. Just imagine that you seem likely a pebble was thrown into a pond. A pebble could create a few water waves then they disappear. A lot of more pebble increasingly makes big waves.

Find the resources outside your community. If your locality has problem so other communities are. They can think new ways toward resolution or they wish to join you in advocacy for making a difference.

Even seeking for resources is self-responsibility, sometimes we have to look for assistance outside from the community for example non-governmental organizations (NGOs), media outlet—aiming at receiving the resources and materialize the change.

What can NGO help you?
1-Build a core team and community member
2-To assist in building the linkage between community, government’s officials and senator and national assembly as bridge.
3-Always provide the voices to legislator of what people suggested in a process of lawmaking.
4-Build communication with other communities nationwide.
5-Provide resources, materials, technical assistance and budget.
6-Doing a complex research for example baseline survey or legal research.
7-Make a connection to other countries.
8-Legal aid services.

Whenever the NGOs implement good approaches, it pushes the local people getting good experiences. There are some NGOs feel that they have only knowledge to cope with problems. They should not conduct advocacy directly. Instead, they should help local people to address problem by themselves peacefully.

To protect our land grabbing: Seeking for alliances
The core team has decided that they have to implement activity to tantalize from the media. During a meeting there was a member raised that the students may have good idea about reasons and how to claim our rights to retrieve our land ownership. Because of this idea, following they get permission from the principal to meet with students, parents and teachers.

Note: While your local people pay attention to participate with addressing problems so there will have many people come to join you. In order to expand the core team member, they have to run election to vote for those who are willing in making a difference positively.

Read more about People’s Participation in Development Projects