Dharavi Group 5

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Dharavi Group 5

Step 1: Situation Assessment

Who do you see as the primary beneficiaries of your work (who is your client)?

    Ans: Primary beneficiary: The Alliance (SPARC, NSDF, Mahila Milan)

     2. Who are the stakeholders?
      Ans: The citizens of Dharavi, Mumbai, Indian government, Developers, NGOs

     3. What cultural issues do you need to consider?

   Ans: occupational culture, traditional caste system, lack of women participation, age, collectivism (strong sense of community), languages, religious diversity

     4. What issues of power or difference should be taken into consideration?
     Ans: Size of organizations, source of funding, representation in the community, ethnic dominance in each NGO, difference in each NGO's visions

     5. Is there someone or a group with whom you should consider partnering in your efforts?
     Ans: Stakeholders of Urban Typhoon, especially PUKAR

     6. What other factors should be taken into consideration?
     Ans: Government support/involvement (Pros and Cons of government involvement)

Step 2 : Strategy Development

    1. Who are the direct beneficiaries? Who else will be participating?
    Ans: The direct beneficiary is the Alliance (SPARC, NSDF, Mahila Milan). Other parties: PUKAR, and government (depending on the decision of the Alliance)

    2. What are the goals and expected outcomes of the intervention?
    Ans: Assist the Alliance in formulating a joint strategy, establish priorities, and allocate tasks and resources among the partners.

    3. What tool or processes did you decide to apply for this project? Why?
    Ans: Series of meetings in a workshop format provides opportunities for other stakeholders to be invited at different stages.


    4. What are the strengths of this tool or approach? What challenges do you need to be aware of?
    Ans: The workshop and meetings could be long and tiring. Parties involved might not have time to be totally committed.

    5. What facilitation techniques (e.g. card and chart, bulls eye, etc) might be helpful during your session?
    Ans: 1) hybride between Bulls eye and evaluation wheel (Evaluation Eye)--use transparent sheet to evaluate the performance in order to establish a baseline (done anonymously)
           2) card and chart to brainstorm on what the priorities are for next year. Lead the discussions from there.


    6. How did you address issues of power and difference in your approach?
    Ans: Doing the Evaluation eye anonymously gets everyone an opportunity to express their voice.

    7. What is the time line (i.e., Will the intervention be a single event such as a workshop or meeting? How long will it take? Will it be multiple events? Over what time span?
    Ans: 3 days concentrated workshop consisting of 4 events

Step 3: Implementation

Evaluation Eye: (Generate the discussions from here)

Q 1: How satisfied are you with the performance of the Alliance members in the past year?
Q 2: How effective was the communication among the Alliance members?
Q 3: How effective has the Alliance been in collaborating toward a common goal?
Q 4: How effective is the use and management of resources?

Explain the next task by giving some examples.

Card and Chart
1) Ask the members of the Alliance to write down three priorities.
2) From there, they will be asked to put on the chart what should be dealth with first, second and third accordingly.
3) Rank again within each group the most do-able/cost-effective priority and generate the discussion from there (why is this priority more important than the other?, who among the Alliance has the resources to realize this priority? how will collaboration help to achieve this goal?)
4) After the discussion, ask the members if they would like to move what they have put on the chart to another group. Why?
5) Ask whether these priorities correspond to the resource allocation that they have in mind.

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http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/toolsfordevelopment.pdf