Digital storytelling in Costa Rica – Sula Batsu

In this post Sula Batsu co-ordinator Kemly Camacho talks about  the work her organisation is doing with communities in Costa Rica. Kemly gives a very good account of the value of reflection and reflexivity, as well as setting out her ideas about the importance of knowledge, self-knowledge, in communities.

About Sulá Batsú
Sulá Batsú is a co-operative [...]

Reflection, reflexivity and emergence

In the last three weeks I have encountered IKME programme participants’ ability to be reflective and reflexive on three separate occasions. I think it is worth describing these occasions and trying to draw out why methods based on reflection and reflexivity might be important to a programme that wants to develop ways of working which [...]

Boundary partners

Following on from the Communications Strategy Workshop in October, I’ve been looking at outcome mapping – discussed by a number of workshop participants – as a way of mapping the outcomes of the IKM Emergent Programme. One of the contradictions/inconsistencies as far as IKM is concerned is that one of the key pillars of outcome [...]

Why the process diary?

During the first meeting of Working Group 1 in August 2007, my colleagues from that group suggested that it would be a good idea to keep a diary of the ‘process’. This suggestion has led to the creation of ‘the process diary’ which will chart the development of the programme itself but also of the communications strategy.
Everyone [...]