Journey: Intro to CHOICE Humanitarian (Self Guided)

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Introduction to

A 3-part Journey:

1.A Lack of Choice

2. Top-down vs. Bottom-up

3. The Self-Developing Village Model



About CHOICE

Founded 1982

Co-founded by Dr. James Mayfield

±Author and Professor Emeritus, University of Utah

± World renowned expert in rural village developmentCountries of Focus: Kenya, Nepal, Guatemala,

Mexico and Bolivia

CHOICE stands for the 'Center for Humanitarian

Outreach and Inter-Cultural Exchange'.



About CHOICE

³CHOICE Humanitarian is ending poverty by

focusing on sustainable village development.

Our goal is to connect motivated villages to

resources and tools to change their lives. By building skills, capacities and leadership of the

villagers ± the entire community brings itself

out of the cycle of poverty.´



Part 1:

A Lack of Choice



The Cause:

Lack of Tools, Lack of Choice

³Development is about expanding the

choices people have to lead lives that

they value.´

± UN Human Development Report, 2008



Part 2:Top-down vs. Bottom-up



A Story



The Top-Down Pattern



The Top-Down Result

300 latrines

³completed´ @

$5000 each Over a million

dollars invested

Latrines are

never used



The Top-Down Summary

$1.3 trillion invested since the '50s

Outsiders "fix" problems

No local input or ownership

³50% of all "Top Down" projects fail

within a year of NGO departure.´Dr. James B. Mayfield, lead researcher, United Nations Rural

Development Project Implementation Assessment Study



So what¶s an alternative?



The Bottom-Up Approach

NGO involves the locals

NGO provides:

±Technical skills±Community organization

±Some resources

Results: Sustainable

projects



The Top-Down

Approach:LARGE Resources,

Small Impact

The Bottom-Up

Approach:LARGE Impact,

Small Resources



The CHOICE Approach

Top-Down

+Bottom-Up =

LARGE

Resources,

LARGE Impact



The CHOICE Approach

Self-Developing

Village Model



Part 3:

The Self-DevelopingVillage Model



Self-Developing Village Model:

The Process

Self

Assessment

Action

Plan

Execution

Learning Team

Building




The Process

Self

Assessment

Action

Plan

Execution

Learning Team

Building



Measuring Results



CHOICE Measurement Tools



80s and 90s: Focus on

Sustainability



Self-Developing Village Approach:

Leveraged impact

Leadership trained

Community

organized andmobilized

Resources leveraged

through networks

Village continues their own

development



Example: Okhlepani, Nepal



The Ripple Effect:CHOICE-trained villagers mentor neighbors



The CHOICE Difference

Local-based

teams

Focus is on the

people

Self developing

village model

Ripple effect

Journey: Intro to CHOICE Humanitarian (Self Guided)

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