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29 May 2019
Post No. 93
The Week’s Contents
• End-of-May Stories: Afforestation and Evaluation Stories
• Making Peace with Nature
• Coming Next Week on 04/06/2019: Act No. 3 of the Quadranscentennial Year and Project, Creation Act
… and much more!
Key Messages
~ End-of-May Stories: Afforestation and Evaluation Stories
We would like to thank those who supported our All in Development Story Telling Series which ended yesterday. Thanks to you, your support has kept our Series going until the last day.
May month Stories will end in the couple of days. The rest of these two days will be dedicated to Evaluation and Forest and Reforestation Stories.
Evaluation Stories are those ones of examining the value of work did on life renewal, while Afforestation Stories relate to tales of growing forests.
These two types of stories will close our May Stories telling and sharing.
For more on these End-of-May Stories telling, read under the Main Developments section of this post.
~ Making Peace with Nature
Another trending topic at CENFACS for this week is our renewed call to make peace with the nature. It is a call for humans to maintain good relationships with plants, animals and landscapes forming the nature.
It is as well an appeal to refrain from any changes that may adversely impact the nature like the attempt by Botswana to restart the hunting of elephants because of their growing population there.
As we are still in the season of life renewal at CENFACS, making peace with nature is indeed about rebuilding or renewing our relationships with the nature in a more responsible way; way that preserves it rather than that destroys it.
To re-engage or make peace with the nature or to respond to this call, contact CENFACS.
~ Coming Next Week on 04 June 2019: Act No. 3 of the Quadranscentennial (Q) Year and Project with a Focus on CENFACS as a Q Creation
After delivering the two Acts of the Q Project, we are now going to undertake the 3rd Act of this project. Act No. 3, which is the existential act, will be about Creation. CENFACS as the “Q” Creation is the conceptualisation of CENFACS as an organisation which came into existence and which last 25 years.
This Act has been scheduled for June as it is the Creative Economic Development month at CENFACS. The celebration of CENFACS as a “Q” Creation will be done by looking at the five dimensions of CENFACS as creation, dimensions which are as follows: uniqueness, hope, inspiration, development and sustainability.
The Creation Act will deal with the values that incarnated the creation of CENFACS which are of freedoms from poverty and hardships, of enhancing capacities and capabilities, and of economic development which become later sustainable development.
The Creation Act also tells CENFACS’ story of creation since the beginning. This creation story should not be confused with the volunteering story which we presented in Act 2.
The Creation Act will further highlight the creative work of CENFACS in the poverty relief and sustainable development fields since the genesis of CENFACS.
More on CENFACS as a “Q” Creation will be provided next week on the celebration day. However, we have provided further information about this Act 3 under the Main Developments section of this post.
Extra Messages
~ Rebuilding Africa continues…In focus this Week: Security, Mystique and Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
As the Ebola virus continues to claim its victims in the Eastern province of the DRC, we are working on the security, mystique and health issues surrounding this virus in DRC. In particular, we are looking at how democratic transition can help solve security and mystique issues in order to enhance health in the Ebola-stricken areas of DRC.
This issue of Ebola that becomes stubborn in DRC bring us back to the relationship between “Quadranscentenniality” and recovery which we discussed a week ago. “Q” recovery is the recovery that lasts at 25 years or more or even forever. To resolve DRC’s Ebola issue, recovery should be “quadranscentennial” or “quadranscentennialised”.
For this week, in making our story of evaluation, we can examine the challenge that security and mystique pose in the process of the eradication of Ebola in DRC. Insecurity in the Ebola-affected areas together with the belief of local populations about the channels of transmission of this deadly virus, are making difficult for health professionals to work. Health of local people in this region is caught by these two issues making health itself a third issue.
For further details about Rebuilding Africa and our advocacy work on DRC, contact CENFACS.
~ “Quadranscentenniality” and Evaluation
The process of examining or judging our work on renewing lives can also have a quadranscentennial dimension. In other words, we can examine or judge the worth or value of renewing lives through the life span of let say 25 years, as we did with monitoring. It is in this way that we can build consistency in what we are doing and connects this work between different generations.
For example, “Q” Evaluation can be applied to examine project impact between the generations of children who experienced the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and those who are currently living the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The first goals had a deadline of 15 years (2000 to 2015) and the second ones have the same deadline (2015 to 2030). All together there will be 30 years of the United Nations Global Development Goals. One can do a 25 or 30-year (or quadranscentennial) evaluation of these global goals.
For further details about the relationships between “quadranscentenniality” and evaluation, please contact CENFACS.
Main Developments
• • End-of-May Stories: Afforestation and Evaluation Stories
~ Forestation and reforestation stories
This week, we have two complementary stories to tell and share forestation and reforestation tales. This is an adding to our All in Development Stories we developed and heard so far. Our interest in the forestation and reforestation is on the tales of
√ Establishing and growing forests
√ Land cultivation in a sustainable way
√ Creating sustainable habitats for animal and plant species
These are the stories of how humans are making a positive impact on forest life renewal.
We are as well dealing with counter stories of life renewal such as
x Farming that destroys forest
x Commercial logging
x Unsustainable mining minerals
x Human settlements that clear trees
x Road building that leads to deforestation
These kinds of stories point man-made behaviour that destroys forest life and which we need to STOP.
~ Evaluation Stories
Evaluation stories are those of examination and or judgement about the worth or value of life renewal experience as above mentioned. They include the accounts of degree, quality, significance, amount and condition of the life renewal.
They are as well the stories of reviewing life renewal, of reconsidering progress made against objectives and policies of life renewal.
They are further the tales of impact, sustainability and relevance of renewing lives, as well as of lessons learnt.
They are finally the accounts of…
√ Feeling part of life renewal process or organisation
√ Recognising success in renewing lives
√ Identifying problems in renewing lives
√ Indicators used for performance against objectives or work
√ Recommendations for future renewal
√ Forward planning and looking
√ Exit strategy plan
√ Highlighting trends and developments in life renewal
√ Thinking in the field of life renewal
√ Evaluations volunteers and managers/staff of their work in sharing evaluation reports
To support or donate afforestation and evaluation stories, please contact CENFACS.
• • Act No. 3 of the Quadranscentennial (Q) Year and Project with a Focus on CENFACS as a Q Creation
The 3rd Act of the “Quadransecntennial” Project or the Creation Act, will focus on the five pillars of CENFACS as a “Quadranscentennial” creation which are:
CENFACS as 1/ a unique creation 2/ a creative development 3/ an inspiring and transformative creation 4/ a sustainable creation and 5/ a creation for hope and future.
On the 4th of June 2019, CENFACS will be celebrating
√ the uniqueness of an idea or creation – the idea of CENFACS; what makes CENFACS a unique telling example of progressive way of fighting against poverty and hardships, and what makes it a creation for hope, peace and sustainability
√ a particular approach to making creative differences to the lives of those who are suffering, on how a good creation can make helpful differences to impoverished people’s lives
√ the telling and prevailing story of transformative change, what the progressive idea of CENFACS has brought in the last twenty five years as an inspiring force and a force for good and development
√ the roots, birth, trajectory, surviving life and continuity of an original idea on its own merit and right
√ CENFACS as a sustainable creation together with other similar sustainable creations (as this Act will be in June Month of Environmental and Sustainable Creative Initiatives); creations that continue over the long-term or cyclical period without adverse effects on the environment
√ the creative voice of CENFACS that resonates, speaks for and together with those in most pressing need for their cries to be heard/listened and solutions to be brought to their pending and long lasting unsolved problems and unmet needs
√ creative development, that is a process that causes better change come into existence, a process of sustainably enhancing freedoms and capabilities through continuous creation.
The day will also provide us opportunities and scopes to learn and draw lessons for the future about why some ideas or creations prevail and others do not.
For example, we can learn and try to understand why the idea of Sir Tim Burners-Lee, the Inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989, has succeeded and impacted the lives of millions in the world, including the poor.
We will reflect on the reasons why some simple creations prevail, others elegant ones die or go to the bin, others more are successful or unsuccessful, and how to make your creation becomes a worthy, wealthy and healthy experience for poverty relief and sustainable development.
And above all, we will explore processes and strategies for protecting the creations belonging to the poor, to be owned by them not being stolen from them or taking way from them by others without their permission and or agreement.
To support and or enquire about the “Q” Project and the Act 3, contact CENFACS.
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