Development Series- Part I: SEED-SCALE in Cities: Curitiba, Brazil
Development Series- Part I: SEED-SCALE in Cities: Curitiba, Brazil
Summary from Just and Lasting Change by Associate Professor, Noam Schimmel
Patterns of human settlement are becoming increasingly urban and with these changes come both challenges and opportunities to advance human development.
Health Series- Part IV: Community-Based Development in Ding Xian, China
Health Series- Part IV: Community-Based Development in Ding Xian, China
Summary from Just and Lasting Change by Associate Professor, Noam Schimmel
Go to the People.
Live with the People,
Learn from the People.
Plan with the People.
Work with the People.
Start with what they know,
Build on what they have.
Teach by showing, learn by doing.
Not a showcase, but a pattern.
Not piecemeal, but integrated.
Not odds and ends, but a system.
Not to conform, but to transform.
Not relief, but release.
-Jimmy Yen (yen Yangchu)
Health Series- Part III: Out of the Shadows: Women in Afghanistan
Health Series- Part III: Out of the Shadows: Women in Afghanistan
Summary of Just and Lasting Change- Chapter 13, by Associate Professor, Noam Schimmel
**Photos from various Future Generations activities in Afghanistan
Behavioral change to advance health is often one of the most difficult aspects of the pursuit of development.
Health Series- Part II: Transformative Low Cost Healthcare
Health Series- Part II: Transformative Low Cost Healthcare
**Photos throughout the post are from Future Generations-affiliated CHW programs around India.
It is possible to provide life saving and life sustaining healthcare at an extremely low cost using well-trained non-professional community health workers.
Health Series- Part I: Communities and Government Learning to Work Together in Peru
Health Series- Part I: Communities and Government Learning to Work Together in Peru
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Over the next several months, Equity & Empowerment will be releasing entries summarizing some of our earlier work to give a glimpse of the diversity of our organization and the versatility of the SEED-SCALE method which guides us. There will be 3 themed sets (series), and each set will consist of 4 entries. We hope you enjoy the first installment in our Health Series!
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Original work by Laura Altobelli, Patricia Paredes, and Carl E. Taylor
Summary by Associate Professor, Noam Schimmel
SEED-SCALE illustrates how the most significant and sustainable achievements in community development typically result from a combination of bottom-up, top-down, and outside-in interventions. When these approaches work together, synergistically, they create a powerful framework for social change.
In Peru, in 1992, when the Shining Path terrorist group was defeated, villages in the Peruvian countryside looked to create healthcare programming that had been neglected during the many years of civil war and Shining Path attacks.
The Peruvian government was initially oriented towards a traditional top-down approach of bringing skilled doctors and other medical professionals to health centers located outside the villages, with the resulting high costs this would entail.