Wednesday 19 March 2014

Empower the people!

We met again today for a breakfast at Calori @Lämpömiehenkuja 2, Otaniemi. We had researched  empowerment, participatory processes in general and in sanitation projects, hackathons and possible sanitation solutions that could be implemented in Chamanculo.

We went over our findings together and felt strongly that the empowerment/participation approach is the one we would go with. We decided to research the previous topics further and link our findings more closely to the task at hand: improving sanitation and hygiene in Chamanculo.

Further research responsibilities by next week's meeting on Tuesday at 8.30:
- Mikaela will research sanitation solutions, and choose at least 3 different approaches that would suit Chamanculo and make a brief analysis on the pros and cons of the options
- Anja will try to get the participants' feedback of our previous hackathon, analyze it and draft a brief ckecklist/guide for Hackathon organizing
- Mariko, Perttu and Caroline will further research participatory and empowerment methods, and choose the most promising ready approaches, as well as the most proimising tools used in different approaches
-someone will send ASSCODECHA an email and ask how they are doing and what are their current feelings about the hackathon and next steps in the sanitation challenges

The end result of our work will be a general guide to empowerment, introducing methods and their applications, and an example case of tackling the sanitation challenges in Chamanculo through a participatory process. In the case we will describe the process, and present sanitation solutions that are suggested as options to start with.

We will meet again on Tuesday 25.3.2014 in Calori.

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