Welcome to our first edition of Share Learn Grow!
Through our ongoing engagements with you, we have come to increasingly appreciate the value of partnerships marked by interdependence and learning - which has led to the development of this Share, Learn, Grow newsletter. We plan to release an edition 3-4 times a year and hope it will be a platform where together we can support each other’s journey of continuous learning and growth so that our work can reflect best practice while meeting locally identified needs - and provide some updates on ALWS. We plan to do this by sharing insights and resources developed by us or gathered from our partners and networks; facilitating and supporting collaborations amongst our partners and networks; and sharing information on reflection and learning opportunities. In this first edition you will read about an exciting project on Reporting Beneficiaries Data that we have been working on together with our partners and the Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG). You will be inspired by our partner LWF Nepal’s innovative approach to Community Complaints Response. You will also be able to have quick access to the recently published Child Safeguarding e-Learning Modules and get some great tips on how to take effective photos for fundraising. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and contributions for next quarter’s edition.
Happy Reading!
Program Director
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CONTENTS 2 - Beneficiary reporting workshop 3 - Best practice sharing from out partners - Nepal 4 - New! Child Safeguarding modules 5 - Comms corner
ALWS
Our goal for this "Joint Session on ALWS Reporting Beneficiary Data Guidance Note" is to: The beneficiary guidance note provides really
clarify any sections of the guidance note that our partners would like more information or details on hear from partners on the usefulness and limitation of the document explore the guidance note through some case scenarios from partners find out if there are any significant gaps that we need to update the guidance note with
really make this workshop worthwhile!
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information on: the use
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verifying data. ALWS’ Guidance Note on Reporting Beneficiary
reflect and simplify existing donor requirements
burden onto ALWS’ partners.
and hope we can
practical, real life case studies, to
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valuable
of consistent terminology and definitions,
Gender,
and Disability, standards to minimise
importance of documentation when
people engaged
the project and recommendations for
Data seeks to
and not to add unnecessary
We look forward to seeing our partners in the workshop
provide some valuable discussions through
SpotlightonGood Practice:Nepal Community ComplaintResponse Groups
team in community groups and cooperatives associated with LWF Nepal projects and programs in Kailali district. These group and cooperative form three-member complaint response focal teams at the community level. They organise meetings once a month and review the complaints received during the period. They also address complaints according to their nature. E.g. if the complaint is serious they forward it to LWF Nepal but if it's operational, they address the complaint themselves.
LWF Nepal has introduced a
The benefits of this approach have been found to be:
The complaints focal team play a vital role in bridging the gap between LWF Nepal and groups/cooperatives in the community
Group members have realised that their leadership qualities are enhanced through participating in Complaints Response Mechansim (CRM) practices Group members can easily lodge their complaints since they are familiar with the complaints focal team
Verbal and telephone complaints are frequently received by the teams Community members feel it is easier to access information about the project/program and also lodge complaints about LWF Nepal and projects through the complaints focal teams
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complaints focal
Do you have an exciting example of best practice from your program you would like to share with ALWS and our other partners? Let your focal point know and we can try to include this in the next Share Learn Grow!
Child Safeguarding e-Learning Modules
The ACT Safeguarding Community of Practice is proud to share 6 new elearning modules created to support members to strengthen Child Safeguarding in their organisations!
The modules are open access (no registration cost) and organisations and individuals outside of the ACT Alliance are also welcome to access them.
Modules include: - Introduction to Child Safeguarding - Understanding Child Abuse - Child Safe Organisations - Policies and Prac - Human Resources and Child Safeguarding - Communications and Child Safeguarding - Child Safeguarding and the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS)
They can be accessed through Fabo’s Learning Catalogue at https://fabo.org/act/ACT Alliance - Child Safeguarding
To note – users will need to have an existing Fabo account or create one (which takes just a few minutes).
The development of these modules was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP).
Comms Corner
For communicating with our supporters, ALWS tries to use photos where we can look directly into people's eyes - but without it being cold or scared or formal. We want to see their emotion, and relate to them person-to-person.
Some tips for taking a nice photo for our supporters to connect with in Australia: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Find a quiet place away from crowds, and away from bright sun. Have a plain background, but make it local - a wall, a background of bushes etc Get close! Head and shoulders is where all the emotion is. (You can take other photos showing the rights-holder with the program product - eg water-pump, vegie garden ... but the fundraising photo is close-up) Take lots of photos! This will help you get the right 'look'. Make photos at least 2Mb - preferably more. This means we can crop, and blow up, as we need to.
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Have you ever wanted to learn: How to take effective photos for fundraising?
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