Transcript introduction to campaigning with Progressio

Campaigning
I’m Jenny Vaughan
This is me.
This is a presentation about campaigning.
A while ago I returned from my ICS
placement in Malawi, and I wondered, as
I’m sure you all are… How can I effect
change now I’m back?
I’m going to take you on a little journey all
around the world…
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas. It can be anyone.
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas.
Got one?
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas.
Got one?
OK.
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas.
Got one?
OK.
I want to think about the barriers to a full life
that person faces.
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas.
Got one?
OK.
I want to think about the barriers to a full life
that person faces.
And how to overcome them.
Think of a person you met and helped out
while you were overseas.
Got one?
OK.
I’m going to go through an exercise with you.
I want to think about the barriers to a full life
that person faces.
And how to overcome them.
You have some experience of this already.
Ready?
Ready?
LET’S GO!
This is my friend Isobel and me.
Isobel is a wife, a mother and a farmer.
This is my friend Isobel’s community during
a food and nutrition workshop we ran while
on placement.
Together, they live in a rural village in
Malawi.
This is my friend Isobel.
Isobel is a wife, a mother and a farmer.
Isobel and her community live in a rural
village in Malawi.
This workshop is one of many Progressio
and partner organisation Arise and Shine
International ran to build capacity and
improve health and wellbeing in the village.
I worked with Isobel and her friends to
come up with a vision of how they’d like
their village to look. What they presented
back to us was overwhelming.
“By 2018 we want to have: self
reliance, food security, good
education, enough livestock,
good modes of transportation,
safe drinking water and be
practising family planning and
conserving natural resources”
What struck me the most was that this
community did not need telling, they did not
need prompting. They knew exactly what they
needed to lead fuller lives and their vision was
rich and clear.
What are the immediate barriers to overcoming
poverty that Isobel (and your person) faces?
What stops Isobel and her community from living their vision?
Let’s break it down…
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure; a lack of roads and
other basic services
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple crop for
food
Lack of knowledge about more robust
farming methods
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure; a lack of roads and
other basic services
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
All these things are
very local and
immediate.
YOU (may) have
been helping out
with them.
So you helped this person out.
So you helped this person out.
GREAT!
So you helped this person out.
GREAT!
But now you’re at home, you can’t do this any more.
So you helped this person out.
GREAT!
But now you’re at home, you can’t do this any more.
You probably noticed this and want to keep helping.
So you helped this person out.
GREAT!
But now you’re at home, you can’t do this any more.
You probably noticed this and want to keep helping.
But how?
We need to keep thinking, but a bit harder.
Let’s go back to that list.
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Climate change – it’s getting dryer. That
needs to stop!
Climate change – there’s not enough
money to help Leonard adapt
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Climate change – it’s getting dryer. That
needs to stop!
Climate change – there’s not enough
money to help Leonard adapt
Lack of money for agricultural teaching
because of poor governance or debt
Unfair trade rules mean Leonard can’t sell
his crops
Need for private sector to work harder to
include developing countries
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
Economic
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Climate change – it’s getting dryer. That
needs to stop!
Climate change – there’s not enough
money to help Leonard adapt
Lack of money for agricultural teaching
because of poor governance or debt
Unfair trade rules mean Leonard can’t sell
his crops
Need for private sector to work harder to
include developing countries
People in the UK think it’s all a bit too far
away
Lack of political will internationally to
address poverty
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
What do you
notice about these
Economic
things?
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Climate change – it’s getting dryer. That
needs to stop!
Climate change – there’s not enough
money to help Leonard adapt
Lack of money for agricultural teaching
because of poor governance or debt
Unfair trade rules mean Leonard can’t sell
his crops
Need for private sector to work harder to
include developing countries
People in the UK think it’s all a bit too far
away
Lack of political will internationally to
address poverty
Environmental
Drought-prone crops
Poor access to water resources
What do you
notice about these
Economic
things?
Poor access to local markets
Poor access to machinery to make
planting, harvesting and refining easier
Reliance on expensive (and polluting)
fertilizer and pesticide
Dodgy infrastructure like roads
Isobel can’t do
anything about
them.
Socio-cultural
Use of thirsty maize as staple
Knowledge about more robust farming
methods
Climate change – it’s getting dryer. That
needs to stop!
Climate change – there’s not enough
money to help Leonard adapt
Lack of money for agricultural teaching
because of poor governance or debt
Unfair trade rules mean Leonard can’t sell
his crops
Need for private sector to work harder to
include developing countries
People in the UK think it’s all a bit too far
away
Lack of political will internationally to
address poverty
She lives in the wrong place and doesn’t
have access to the decision making
platforms
She lives in the wrong place and doesn’t
have access to the decision making
platforms – these decisions get made in
She lives in the wrong place and doesn’t
have access to the decision making
platforms – these decisions get made in
- London (Parliament, DFID, stock market,
corporations)
She lives in the wrong place – these
decisions get made in
- London (Parliament, DFID, stock market
corporations)
- New York (UN)/ Washington (World
Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation)
He lives in the wrong place – these
decisions get made in
- London (Parliament, DFID, stock market
corporations)
- New York (UN)/ Washington (World
Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation)
- Brussels (EU)
Or Isobel just doesn’t know about them.
Or Isobel doesn’t know about them.
Or Isobel just doesn’t know about them.
She has little power to effect change in global
power houses.
But guess what?
But guess what?
Someone who lives in the UK (and therefore
the EU), and knows about the multilalteral,
intergovernmental and surpranational
institutions (UN, World Bank, IMF) can have
an influence, even if Isobel can’t.
YOU can do what your person and Isobel
can’t do… yet.
YOU can do what your person and Isobel
can’t do… yet.
And with the privilege of living in the UK and
having found out about the reality of poverty
and the necessity for international
development comes the RESPONSIBILITY
TO ACT.
I’m spreading the word that people in the UK
are much more powerful then they imagine.
I’m spreading the word that people in the UK
are much more powerful then they imagine.
And that’s what I wanted to say to you.
Being at home doesn’t mean you have to stop
helping the people you met.
Being at home doesn’t mean you have to stop
helping the people you met.
It just means your help has to be different.
Being at home doesn’t mean you have to stop
helping the people you met.
It just means your help has to be different.
That’s why people campaign; that’s why I hope
you will campaign with Progressio.
That’s my basic message:
That’s my basic message:
Stay involved. The Empower network has been
set up so that people like you can keep
engaged together with your peers.
That’s my basic message:
Stay involved. The Empower network has been
set up so that people like you can keep
engaged together with your peers.
Take action. You’ll get asked – please respond!
That’s my basic message:
Stay involved. We’re setting up a way to stay
connected at the moment. Engage!
Take action. You’ll get asked – please respond!
Keep helping people like Isobel overcome
poverty.
That’s my basic message:
Stay involved. The Empower network has been
set up so that people like you can keep
engaged together with your peers
Take action. You’ll get asked – please respond!
Keep helping people like Isobel overcome
poverty.
WE CAN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.
BUT WHAT CAN I ACTUALLY DO, I
HEAR YOU ASK?
Influence
Development
policy
(And other stuff; you get the idea)
Keep making a difference.
Keep making a difference.
Campaign with Progressio.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Jenny
Thanks.
Jenny
(and Isobel)