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| Ideology,
the holding of ideas that one particular political system is better than
another, belongs to the values or aesthetics
(values) dimension
of culture. |
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Therefore "ideology"
(meaning a set of values) does not belong to the political
dimension of culture. |
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| One
of the five major factors of poverty
is
ignorance.
To many, the word ignorant is an insult. What we mean is simply that some
people do not know some things; there is no shame in that. |
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Also know that
ignorance and stupidity are very different things. Adults can learn, but
do not treat them as children or as inferior, or you will block their learning. |
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Ignorance means
not knowing something, stupidity means not being able to know something,
and foolishness means doing or not doing something when one knows better.
Ignorance, stupidity and foolishness are very different things.
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(Deutsch:
Unwissenheit,
English:
ignorance,
Español:
ignorancia,
Filipino/Tagalog:
kamangmangan,
Français:
ignorance,
Galego:
ignorancia,
日本語:
無知識,
Malay:
ketidaktahuan,
Português:
ignorância,
Romãnã:
ignoranta,
Somali:
jaahilnimo,
Tiên Việt: sự
thiếu hiểu biết)
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To “implement”
(verb) a project, is to begin and complete the activity described in the
project design.
The older and more
grammatically correct use of the word is as a noun. An “implement”
(noun) is a tool.
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| Income
is wealth, usually
symbolized by money,
that is received by someone, usually for services rendered |
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From the point
of view of the receiving individual, it is money that is "coming in," thus
the word "income." |
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| When
income is generated
(created), then it means wealth
has been created. |
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When value
is added to something that already has value, then wealth has been generated. |
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| Pure,
theoretical, absolute “independence,” where a person, group, or community
does not rely on anything or anyone outside, for survival, for growth,
for decision-making, is as impossible as a frictionless state is in physics. |
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While your
job is to encourage greater levels of independence, self reliance, and
to fight dependence, the pure level of total or absolute independence cannot
be reached. |
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| As
the poet, John Donne, wrote “No man is an island;" we are all,
to some extent, interdependent upon each other. |
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Where the empowerment
methodology promotes self reliance, it is a matter of degree; eliminating
dependency means working towards partnerships. |
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| Indigo
is a little shrub which is native to the West African rain forest.
It is used to make a deep lush blue purple die. |
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It is popular
today to colour the clothes of the Tuareg on the Sahara desert, people
still nick named the "Blue Men." |
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| In
the European middle ages, the dye found its way to Europe where only the
royalty could afford to buy it. It was used to make lush purple robes popular
with kings. |
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In Europe it
was known to come from Timbuktu which was thought to be the end of the
world, yet was a thriving commercial city and university town. |
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| Indigo
(Indigofera tinctoria), may have been carried from West Africa to Asia,
or vice versa |
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The plant is
still cultivated in the Kwawu rain forest, and is used to dye the kente
cloth, although imported commercial dies are relentlessly replacing the
indigo. |
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Wages or salaries
your business pays to employees who are not working in production, eg:
store keeper, security guards.
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Information is one
of the sixteen elements of strength, power or capacity of a community or
organization.
See:
Elements
of Community Strength.
More than just having
or receiving unprocessed information, the strength of the community or
organization depends upon the ability to process and analyse that information,
the level of awareness, knowledge and wisdom found among key individuals
and within the group as a whole.
When information is
more effective and more useful, not just more in volume, the community
will have more strength. (Note that this is related to, but differs from,
the communication
element).
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When simulating
a community to organize and act, the mobilizer needs to be aware of the
role of information in empowering or strengthening that community or organization.
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The process of managing
information, including collecting it, storing it, retrieving it, analysing
it, communicating it, and using it.
Different from management
information.
See Monitoring.
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The word "input" is
used differently as a noun and as a verb.
Noun: a resource that
is put into a project or a productive enterprise.
Verb: to put something
into something (eg to put information into a computer).
English language purists
object to the word input being used as a verb; planners, managers, coordinators
and mobilizers often use it that way.
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| Intelligence
Quotient (IQ): |
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| From
a scientific perspective, social science sees the search for a universal
measure of intelligence as problematical. An IQ test can only measure the
ability of a person to get a score on an IQ test. The content of those
questions can not be divorced from culture, and are therefore dependent
upon variations in culture. |
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Historically,
they have been used as self justifying predictions that children of aboriginal
communities and from disadvantaged ethnic minorities are less intelligent.
The intelligence in question is that of the administrators of such tests
who put some legitimacy in their results. |
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Dimension of Community: |
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social, interaction, or institutional dimension of community is composed
of the ways people act, interact between each other, react, and expect
each other to act and interact. |
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It includes
institutions such as marriage or friendship, roles such as mother or police
officer, status or class, and other patterns of human behaviour. See Community. |
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A person of “integrity”
is honest, righteous, good; essential for any mobilizer, entrepreneur or
leader.
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| In sociology,
"interaction" goes beyond our ideas of action or behaviour of individuals.
Because we are social animals, we human beings behave in response to the
ideas and behaviours of other individuals and groups. Social
interaction. |
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It is because
of this social interaction that we say a community
is more than just a collection of human beings, but consists of all the
shared ideas, expectations and communication between each other, that it
transcends
human individuals, making it superorganic. |
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| What
is the extent and effectiveness of animation (mobilizing, management training,
awareness raising, stimulation) aimed at strengthening the community or
organization? Do outside or internal sources of charity increase the level
of dependency and weaken the community, or do they challenge the community
to act and therefore become stronger? |
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Is the intervention
sustainable or does it depend upon decisions by outside donors who have
different goals and agendas than the community itself? When a community
or organization
has more sources of stimulation to develop, it has more strength. |
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When stimulating
a community to organize and act, the mobilizer needs to be aware of the
role of intervention in empowering that community or organization.
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| There
are basically three things you can do with wealth
(1) consume it, (2) store (save) it, or (3) invest it. |
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If you direct
wealth away from direct consumption or storage, and towards capital, it
contributes to an increase in future wealth (by foregoing immediate consumption). |
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