6.1. Fotoluminiscencia de Nanoestructuras de Silicio:
6.1.1 Fotoluminiscencia en Nanohilos de Silicio
6.1.1.1 Origen de la Fotoluminiscencia en Nanohilos de Silicio
1. Have you started to contact people/organizations within your country/region?
2. What resources have been helpful in the process?
3. Do any of you have any expertise in dealing with cultural challenges facing citizens returning to their country after study abroad?
4. What will it be like to return home?
5. What will your job be like?
6. How have you changed?
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7.4.2 Activity: Resource Mobilization
Time: 1 hour Materials: none Process:
1. Begin with a narrative like this (we used this with the Ford fellows):
“Each one of you is a success story in mobilizing resources. Many of you have successfully raised funds, recruited volunteers, or secured other resources for your organizations. You have all succeeded in convincing a large, well-regarded organization like the Ford Foundation to fund your personal education. Reflecting on your success stories, let us draw guidelines to help us in future resource mobilization and fundraising activities.”
2. In small groups (such as triads) discuss the following:
a. Identify the elements that made one of your projects a success. These elements might include:
• Responded to a real need(s) • Fit with a donor’s program • Past record was evident
• Possibility for a strong return on investment, high possibility for positive future actions in the area of social justice, ability to do what you promise to do, etc. b. What are some of the resources you used to succeed in this project?
• Relationships • Volunteers • Information
• Reputation (record) • Money
c. Is there a difference between your success story and that of a whole community? If so, what are these differences?
d. What tips you can give to others on how to achieve a similar success story? Role of facilitators:
• Using an accelerated reporting technique, report the groups’ findings.
• Advise groups on the fundraising cycle and how to assemble successful proposals.
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Module 8: Action Planning &
Synthesis
8.1 Action Planning & Synthesis: Purpose and Background
ractitioners of advocacy and strategic thinking understand the importance of careful, thorough, strategic action planning for effective social justice work. At the IFP LSJ Institutes, the approach to action
planning was guided by the following assumptions: • It is important to carefully identify the nature of
problems that we want to address as well as the various variables that contribute to these problems and the levels at which these occur. • Identifying and using individual and collective
resources and networks strategically facilitates the movement of advocacy efforts. • Careful consideration of obstacles and opportunities and planning of specific activities
and steps to achieve our personal and professional goals is important.
LSJ Institute originators saw the institutes as extremely important opportunities for participants to learn about each other’s interests and strengths, and as platforms on which we could explore ways to draw upon the knowledge and experience of the entire group to further each
participant’s individual social justice work. The overall purpose of the module was to help participants, through individual reflection and dialogue with other participants, to reflect on their future as social justice leaders and to develop an action plan that would enable them to pursue this future.
Action planning work was encouraged by efforts of some of IFP’s international partners at the country level. For example, some of the partners in the West Africa region used the LSJ
Institute’s back home action plans, developed in the earliest institutes, as part of their in-country orientation and re-entry activities. These back home action plans evolved into our more recently developed individual action plans, included in this guide as Activities 8.6.1–8.6.3.
In general, action plans recommended by LSJ organizers have two basic components. The first component focuses on the nature of the work that participants plan to do. This component encourages participants to think about the issues they want to work on, articulate their vision, and consider some strategic steps they need to take to realize this vision. The second component provides participants with ways to reflect on, understand, and manage the transition from the training phase to a new phase of life and work in their home countries.
In more recent institutes, LSJ facilitators incorporated a third component, designed to facilitate the strengthening and maintenance of networks that aid participants in working together to achieve their goals and promote social justice.
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“Activists must be pro-active. It is only by creating and implementingour own agendas, rather than fighting defensive battles, that social change is achieved.”
– Randy Shaw
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8.2 Action Planning & Synthesis: Module Summary
Objectives:
1. To practice examining social justice issues using multiple perspective and levels of analysis
2. To analyze the leadership role and its effectiveness
3. To understand the challenges involved in re-entry into home countries and pursuing social justice agendas
4. To identify strategic ways to understand and build networks
5. To develop individual and collective action plans that help participants prepare and strategically think about their future social justice work
Activities: Unlike the other modules, the majority of the action planning module does not occur as a sequence of sessions on a particular day.
Instead, it is organized as a series of self- and group-paced activities that progress over the course of the entire institute, building on each other and culminating on the final day in the form of functional individual and group action plans. Because many of the themes of the action planning module overlap with subject matter covered in prior modules, participants will have completed much of their action planning while participating in these modules. However, in order to create thorough, detailed action plans,
participants will need to devote a significant amount of individual time and effort, outside of these sessions, to these activities. (Activities are included in Section 8.3 of this manual.)
Sessions: Apart from the action planning
activities occurring throughout the institute, there
are three sessions in this module, shown below. These include not only the final session on group action planning, but also the closing sessions of the institute. These sessions provide participants with a way to reflect on what they have learned, and conclude by discussing ways participants can initiate and strengthen social justice advocacy work.
1. Group Action Plan 1 hour, 30 minutes 2. Synthesis and Strategies 1 hour, 30 minutes 3. Final Plenary: Reflections on Learning 1 hour_____________
Time: 4 hours
Materials: none
Readings: There is one required reading for this module:
Ford Foundation International Fellows Program. (2006) Action Planning Handbook: Building Our Social Justice Movement. Leadership for Social Justice Institute, Washington, DC. (Included in Appendix D.)
Facilitators’ Notes: The action planning activities assume that participants have been studying/training away from their home countries, or at least away from their work. The set of
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activities presented here may be adjusted in different ways. For example, the three sessions presented here may be used separately for individual and group action planning, application, and synthesis respectively.
Special Preparation: The success of the session depends upon identifying and orienting participants with effective and relevant stories. Given the global and diverse nature of our institutes, program facilitators were careful to give regional, gender, and thematic balance to the case stories we selected. We recommend that participants be asked to volunteer their stories in advance of the institute. It is also important to prepare and orient the storytellers so that they are clear, succinct, and effective in their communication. While some people may need little guidance, other would greatly benefit from this orientation. This preparation may happen before and during the firstfew days of the institute.