1. Skills for Social Change Across Cultures Nancy Bacon Bahia Street Anita Verna Crofts Global Health

2. Cross-cultural communication

3. Power Reflexivity Trust PowerReflexivityTrust

4. Poverty exists within a context Culture Social system Political system Economic system History Geography

6. Power Cultural Economic Social Political Individual

7. Local culture and context Institution’s culture and context Your culture and context Institution’s culture and context Development You Local Counterpart

8. Reflexivity

9. Development Spectrum Transactional Transformational Basic needs Short term Immediate impact Beyond basic needs Long term Gradual impact Minimal societal change Fundamental societal change

10. Local culture Local capacity Local power Transactional Transformational

11. Changing a culture in the long term requires the full and equal participation of those within that culture

12. Trust Time + Knowledge + Shared Leadership

13. “There is no Western solution or blueprint that will solve African problems, and, unless both Africans and the West realize that, all efforts to address them will continue to fail. All societies, no matter how poor, have resources. The trick is to recognize them and harness them effectively… Africa has the potential to ‘take off,’ but it will only do so if it listens to its own beats and its own logic.” - Manuel de Araujo, President of the Mozambican Association (2004)

14. Logic model PROBLEM  SOLUTION  MISSION Resources Activities Outputs Outcomes Indicators CARE: Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. USAID: U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world.

15. Development framework: Traditional Mission External support Internal capacity Who creates the mission? Whose culture is dominant in determining internal capacity? Whose culture is dominant in building external support? Whose culture is expected to change when change is needed? Whose culture sets indicators for success? Mark Moore

16. Development Frameworks: For equality Mission Internal External Internal External Mission Shared governance across “worlds” “Developing world”-centered governance

17. The goal of a local non-profit is to build community to solve a problem, not solve the problem

18. Principles for Collaborative International Development Do no harm Support public institutions and transparent decision-making Invest locally Serve local agendas and priorities Foster equitable relations Developed by Margaret Willson (Bahia Street) and Aaron Katz (UW School of Public Health)

19. Critical questions What is my culture? My institution’s culture? What is the culture and reality(ies) of the people with whom I am working? What impact do I have on my surroundings? Who holds the power? Who does not? Whose culture is implied to be superior? Who trusts whom and why? What is my (our) intended outcome? Will things be different 10 years from now?