protocols regarding consultation and negotiation continued
• A single issue/topic as often there are other
related community concerns.
• Meeting people who are better off and more
powerful;
• Meeting men, rather than a mixture of men
and women (unless it’s strictly men’s
business);
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You will need also to make sure that your
attention is not given solely towards:
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• Meeting women, rather than a mixture of men
and women; (unless it’s strictly women’s
business)
• Meeting only users of services rather than
non-users as well; and
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• Seeing exclusively whatever is modern as
good, rather than taking account of and
incorporating traditional values.
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It is expected that you will excuse yourself from
a group and let them know where you are going
and why, rather than leaving without
explanation.
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• Accept that there are biases in the way you
carry out your enquiries, and also in the way
that clients interpret information. These
biases shape the value they put on things
they are told and what they’ll consider as
reasonable.
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• Accept the solutions that a group or
community have in mind and not propose
bigger, better and grander solutions; and
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• Pay attention to the needs that the community
leaders identify as important;
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You need to:
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When identifying the needs of a community, you
need to take a lot of care with the methods you
use.
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Community profiles are one way of documenting
the needs of a community. They should be
dynamic, active documents, built over time.
These profiles could be developed with the
assistance of community members, but only after
you have been accepted by that community, and
only after getting the permission to do so by the
leadership of the community. It is not good
protocol to develop a profile of a community
without involving them in it, for it may be open to
dispute, and lose its credibility.
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