Comment 17 on 1412 - a rich-poor partnership

Approach #4

Join a local team of people interested in researching specific development issues in the List A partner area

you may need to recruit others to join you to form your own Connection Area Research Group (CARG). This could cover all development issues that affect your partner area or it could specialise

if you belong to an organisation with a special interest in one particular aspect of development aid (e.g. an educational establishment and literacy; a medical facility and health, a young farmers club and agriculture) you could start a WWC research group centred on that organisation

the CARG could then run awareness events to highlight projects that are trying to tackle particular issues

the CARG could try to develop possible exchanges (of information, images, videos, peace tiles, and people) with your List A partner area not only to raise awareness, but to promote existing or emerging projects

Earlier in this thread I said:

Ideally, after the WCP is launched, WWC areas might each form their own CARG (Connection Area Research Group) to undertake work like this.

And I expanded on the idea in my following post

The first three types of approach (see earlier posts) do not seem to hold out great hope of imminent success: there appears to be a lack of microfinance initiatives in Niamey. Perhaps that's what one might expect of any area in Niger, the world's second poorest country.

To make further headway with finding out more about microfinance projects to support in Area #1412, a team of keen individuals in the List B partner area (working in collaboration, ideally, with individuals and perhaps with eduational establishments from the List A partner area) might undertake a leadership role in seeking out and focusing upon programmes that merit support.

Although this would beyond the scope of the combined readership of this #1412 thread, were this for real - and not merely a simulated exercise - a coordinated attempt to gather information systematically about all the development problem areas would seem to be the obvious next step forward next step forward.

It could be seen as a coordinated attempt to tackle each cell in the fivefold model and to try to provide information relating to the subject matter of that cell that would help the partner areas to collaborate or combine in finding good solutions.