The Disaster Tracking Recovery Assistance Centre (D-TRAC) and the American Red Cross are assisting the Listening Project to organize a Listening Exercise in March 2007.
 |
The Listening Project, organized by CDA CLP (Mary Anderson’s group that leads Do No Harm trainings and other collaborative learning projects) is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance (humanitarian, development, peace-building, human rights, etc.). It is motivated by the sense that if we could ask for and listen carefully to recipients' judgments of what has been useful (and not useful) and why, then aid providers and donors would learn a great deal. |
This exercise is taking place between Sunday 11th and Thursday 22nd March in 3 provinces across Thailand. Teams of "listeners" will talk to various ethnic, political and religious groups with the aim of finding out their thoughts on the international assistance they have received. After the exercise has taken place there will be a series of debrief on the results. This will take place on a regional and national level, with heads of local and international non governmental organizations invited to attend. Finally a report will be published highlighting all of the area’s identified via the research and the discussions which followed.
For more information see: http://www.cdainc.com/lp/