• Home
  • About
  • Services
    • Speaking
  • Resources
    • Maiden Frank's Impact Insights
    • Provocateurs not Philanthropists
    • The Provocateurs' Network
  • Contact
  • Product
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
    • Speaking
  • Resources
    • Maiden Frank's Impact Insights
    • Provocateurs not Philanthropists
    • The Provocateurs' Network
  • Contact
  • Product
  MAIDEN MANZANAL-FRANK, GLOBALSTAKES CONSULTING
{menu}
Maiden Frank's Impact Insights

< Back to Resource

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017

    Categories

    All
    Accountability
    Capacity Building
    Change
    Collaboration
    Communication
    Community
    Connection
    Creativity
    Crisis
    Effectiveness
    Engagement
    Evolution
    Failures
    Global
    Governance
    Ideas
    Impact
    Innovation
    Inter Cultural Intelligence
    Leadership
    Life's Lessons
    Management
    Marketing
    Perspective
    Risks
    Strategy
    Sustainability
    Transparency

Back to Blog

COMMUNITY EDUCATION ENSURES SUSTAINABILITY

3/2/2018

 
Our Guest Blogger is Wendy Coulson. Wendy is a Rotary Peace Fellow Chula batch 18 of 2015. She is the Principal and Consultant of Peace and Development Education Consulting.

Peace and Development Consulting was born after she graduated from the Rotary Peace Fellowship. ​She has spent 20+-years career working in the field of education as a teacher, program coordinator, manager, trainer and now consultant. 
​
​You can learn more about her projects at www.peaceanddevelopment.org.
Rotary and CEDESA on Cistern Education

















​Peace & Development Education Consulting was born after I graduated from the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2015. I chose this name because I had written down a phrase during one of our sessions that said “There is no development without peace, and no peace without development.” I design education programs for development projects in Rotary International’s 6 Areas of Focus based on the following peace principles learned during the fellowship.
​

·         Do No Harm
·         Non-Violent Communication
·         Gender Equality
·         Conflict Analysis
·         Community Building/Connectors
·         Prevention
·         Autonomy
·         Self-empowerment
·         Sustainability
·         Local Knowledge
 
I am currently working in Medellin, Colombia as an English Language Fellow with the United States Department of State’s English Language Programs working at a binational center on children’s and special learning needs programs. Although I have been living and working in Mexico for the last 13 years, my work has also taken me to Jordan and the U.S.
 
One of the most fulfilling projects took place in my adopted state Guanajuato, Mexico where I worked with a local Rotary Club and its local partner on an education program to accompany their water catchment development project. The club had been involved in the project for 5 years to remedy the dire situation facing rural communities of contaminated water.
 
After five years, the local project managers observed that many of the beneficiaries were not using the cisterns that they built, not maintaining them or simply filling them with contaminated water. The Rotarians decided that an education component was missing from the program so that the beneficiaries could also ‘own’ the knowledge, not just the cisterns, and be able to teach others.
 
I worked with the local partners, a community organizing association with more than 50 years of experience, to develop a 3-day education program complete with a facilitator’s manual and a booklet for beneficiaries. I also conducted a facilitator training and follow-up evaluations.
 
A member of the local partnership conducted a qualitative evaluation of the project from the pre- and post-questionnaires and the results overwhelming supported the benefits of the education program. I heard one participant exclaim, “Why didn’t you tell us this before?! This is important!” The fact is that they were told before, but not shown. They hadn’t had time to process the information and make it their own.
 
As a foreigner in Mexico, I sometimes get resistance from local organizations and am not accepted at first. In fact, one organization refused to work with me since I was not local. However, when they see my process of first observing and talking and then working together to develop goals and objectives, I gain their confidence. And when they see how the beneficiaries react and the results they achieve, they are happy with my work.
 
After graduating from the Rotary Peace Fellowship, I infuse everything I present in my trainings and curriculum writing with peace principles even in my work as an English language professional. The dynamics of teaching and learning are not meant to pass on information, but to build communities and community.
If you're interested to deep dive into your strategy, change, and engagement issues, reach out to me at engage@globalstakesconsulting.com. Don't wait for the perfect time, situation, or budget.
0 Comments
Read More



Leave a Reply.


​Services

​Virtual/In-person Strategy & Change Support
Multi-stakeholder Engagement
Executive Group and Individual Mentoring
​Keynote, Training, & Facilitation 

    E-NEWSLETTER
    ​Free events, discounts, insights & updates you can use
    . No spam. 
    ​

Subscribe

Contact     About     Resources

​

​
​©2023 GlobalStakes Consulting
Photos used under Creative Commons from Sue90ca MORE OFF THAN ON, focusonmore.com, classroomcamera, hang_in_there, Rosmarie Voegtli, focusonmore.com, costantino.beretta, Ian Sane, Sue90ca MORE OFF THAN ON, 50,000 photos incl private, wuestenigel, shixart1985, lux.musica.khaos, ACRM-Rehabilitation, Mr.TinMD, orca_bc, focusonmore.com, wwarby, Dean Hochman, wbaiv, bjwhite66212, Renaud Camus, quariesofficial, Hervé S, France, paologmb, FutUndBeidl, wuestenigel, andressolo, vibrant_art, Bennilover, wuestenigel, irio.jyske, wuestenigel, ccPixs.com