{"id":9880,"date":"2024-03-15T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peaceworkafrica.net\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:49:30","slug":"pplm-scp-presente-la-technologie-open-space-a-ses-partenaires-en-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceworkafrica.net\/en\/pplm-scp-presente-la-technologie-open-space-a-ses-partenaires-en-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"BftW-CPS Introduces Open Space Technology to Partners in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Par Abdul Kaprr Dumbuya<\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0L’une des conditions pr\u00e9alables au succ\u00e8s d’une conf\u00e9rence sur la technologie Open Space TECHNOLOGY (OST) est que les gens soient r\u00e9ellement int\u00e9ress\u00e9s par la discussion et la r\u00e9solution d’un certain probl\u00e8me br\u00fblant qui les affecte en utilisant des solutions locales\u00a0\u00bb, Juliane Westphal, membre de l’\u00e9quipe de soutien de PPLM-SCP.<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 exp\u00e9riment\u00e9e au Lib\u00e9ria par Pain pour le Monde (PPLM), des histoires sur les succ\u00e8s de l’OST ont \u00e9t\u00e9 partag\u00e9es lors de la conf\u00e9rence annuelle du Service Civil pour la Paix (SCP) de Mano River 2023 en Sierra Leone. Ces histoires ont suscit\u00e9 l’int\u00e9r\u00eat des partenaires du r\u00e9seau dans le pays d’accueil, qui ont donc demand\u00e9, par l’interm\u00e9diaire des coordinateurs nationaux, qu’une formation soit dispens\u00e9e au personnel du projet en particulier.<\/p>\n

La conf\u00e9rence Open Space TECHNOLOGY (OST) est une approche participative qui active les connaissances et les capacit\u00e9s existantes tout en laissant de c\u00f4t\u00e9 l’apport et l’enseignement ext\u00e9rieurs. Un Open Space est un processus simple mais efficace qui permet d’identifier les probl\u00e8mes critiques, d’exprimer les passions et les pr\u00e9occupations, d’apprendre les uns des autres et d’assumer la responsabilit\u00e9 collective de la recherche de solutions. Toutes les personnes n\u00e9cessaires pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question ou r\u00e9soudre le probl\u00e8me sont invit\u00e9es \u00e0 l’OS.<\/p>\n

L’OST est en totale opposition avec les rencontres et conf\u00e9rences habituelles planifi\u00e9es \u00e0 l’avance, o\u00f9 les programmes sont \u00e9tablis des semaines ou des mois \u00e0 l’avance pour les orateurs et le temps qui leur est allou\u00e9, et donc sujets \u00e0 de nombreux changements. Dans cette approche, l’ordre du jour, les sujets, les orateurs et les lieux sont cr\u00e9\u00e9s par les participants, une fois qu’ils arrivent sur place.<\/p>\n

Le but ultime de cette approche est de cr\u00e9er du temps et de l’espace pour que les gens s’engagent profond\u00e9ment et de mani\u00e8re cr\u00e9ative sur les questions qui les pr\u00e9occupent. Elle permet m\u00eame \u00e0 un grand nombre de participants de participer \u00e0 un dialogue interactif et orient\u00e9 vers un objectif, de planifier leur avenir, de d\u00e9velopper de nouvelles id\u00e9es et de nouveaux projets, de trouver des solutions concr\u00e8tes \u00e0 des questions br\u00fblantes, ou de restructurer leur organisation ou leur communaut\u00e9.<\/p>\n

L’Open Space se compose de trois \u00e9tapes cons\u00e9cutives : l’exp\u00e9rience, la r\u00e9flexion et la pratique respectivement. Le format suit le fait que \u00ab\u00a0l’Open Space ne peut \u00eatre ni enseign\u00e9 ni appris, mais m\u00e9moris\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb (H. Owen). Il ouvre donc l’espace \u00e0 l’apprentissage par l’exp\u00e9rience ainsi qu’\u00e0 l’apprentissage auto-organis\u00e9. L’adaptation de l’OST aux communaut\u00e9s ayant un faible taux d’alphab\u00e9tisation et aux r\u00e9alit\u00e9s du terrain place cette approche au centre des interventions contemporaines bas\u00e9es sur le d\u00e9veloppement communautaire.<\/p>\n

Afin de pr\u00e9senter l’OST aux partenaires de la SCP en Sierra Leone, l’un des membres de l’\u00e9quipe de soutien de la PPLM-SCP, Juliane Westphal, a dirig\u00e9 un atelier de formation de trois jours, co-anim\u00e9 par Larry Melling du Liberia, du 5 au 7 mars 2024 au J&E Resort dans la ville de Bo, au sud de la Sierra Leone. Les participants provenaient de 13 partenaires du r\u00e9seau \u00e0 travers le pays.<\/p>\n

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\u00c0 la fin de cette formation tr\u00e8s engageante et interactive, les participants ont fait des d\u00e9clarations d’appr\u00e9ciation pour ce que beaucoup ont d\u00e9crit comme une nouveaut\u00e9 dans le cadre du travail pour la paix et du d\u00e9veloppement communautaire dans le pays. On s’attend \u00e0 ce que, partout o\u00f9 cette m\u00e9thodologie sera appliqu\u00e9e, les communaut\u00e9s soient en mesure de planifier, de concevoir et de mettre en \u0153uvre leurs propres interventions de d\u00e9veloppement en utilisant des solutions locales.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Au nom de SLOIC, je remercie BftW, les facilitateurs et les coordinateurs nationaux pour cette formation tr\u00e8s enrichissante. Je sais maintenant que la technologie Open Space TECHNOLOGY peut soutenir les talents individuels pour faire la diff\u00e9rence dans la r\u00e9alisation d’un objectif commun sans n\u00e9cessairement impliquer le gouvernement. C’est une m\u00e9thodologie que j’encouragerai mon organisation \u00e0 adopter\u00a0\u00bb, Shaka Kawa, SLOIC.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0J’ai beaucoup appris et je vais s\u00fbrement int\u00e9grer la technologie Open Space TECHNOLOGY dans mes programmes radio. La pratique habituelle est que, avant de faire une pr\u00e9sentation \u00e0 la radio, nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 formul\u00e9 nos sujets, et l’audience n’est pas autoris\u00e9e \u00e0 s’en \u00e9carter. Mais je vais changer cela et apporter une nouveaut\u00e9 dans le monde des m\u00e9dias en Sierra Leone\u00a0\u00bb, Theophilus Sahr Gbenda, Community Media Network.<\/p>\n

BftW-CPS Introduces Open Space Technology to Partners in Sierra Leone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Abdul Kaprr Dumbuya<\/a> at March 15, 2024<\/p>\n

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By Abdul Kaprr Dumbuya<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the prerequisites for the success of an Open Space Technology (OST) conference is that, people are really interested in discussing and solving a certain burning issue affecting them using local-based solutions\u201d, Juliane Westphal, BftW-CPS Support Team member. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Having been tried in Liberia by Bread for the World (BftW), stories about successes of the OST were shared during the 2023 Mano River Civil Peace Service (CPS) Annual Conference in Sierra Leone. The stories captured the interests of network partners in the host country and therefore requested through the National Coordinators for a training for particularly project staff.<\/p>\n

The Open Space Technology (OST) conference is a participatory approach activating existing knowledge and capacities while leaving out external input and teaching. An Open Space is a simple but effective people-driven process which identifies critical issues, voice passions and concerns, learning from each other, and taking collective responsibility for finding solutions. Everybody who is needed to answer the question or solve the problem at hand will be invited to the OS.<\/p>\n

The OST is in complete contrast with the usual pre-planned meetings and conferences where schedules are done weeks or months in advance for speakers and their allotted time, and therefore subject to many changes. In this approach, the agenda, topics, speakers and locations are created by people attending, once they arrive at the venue.<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal of this approach is to create time and space for people to engage deeply and creatively around issues of concern to them. It allows even a high number of participants to enter into an interactive and goal-oriented dialogue, to plan their future, develop new ideas and projects, find concrete solutions to burning issues, or to restructure their organization or community.<\/p>\n

Open Space consists of three consecutive stages: experience, reflection and practice respectively. The format follows the fact that \u201cOpen Space can neither be taught nor learned, but remembered\u201d (H. Owen). It therefore opens the space for experiential as well as self-organized learning. The adaption of the OST to communities with a low literacy rate and to further realities on the ground places this approach at centre stage in contemporary community development-based interventions.<\/p>\n

In a bid to introduce the OST to the CPS partners in Sierra Leone, one of the BftW-CPS Support Team members, Juliane Westphal, led a three-day training workshop that was co-facilitated by Larry Melling from Liberia from 5th<\/sup> \u2013 7th<\/sup> March, 2024 at the J&E Resort in Bo city, south of Sierra Leone. Participants were drawn from 13 network partners across the country.<\/p>\n

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The end of the very engaging and interactive training witnessed participants deliver statements of appreciation for what many described as a novelty within the framework of peace work and community development in the country. It is expected that, wherever this methodology is applied, communities will be able to plan, design and implement their own development interventions using local-based solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of SLOIC, I extend thanks and appreciation to BftW, the facilitators and the National Coordinators for such a rewarding training. I now know that Open Space Technology can support individual talents to make a difference in achieving a common goal without necessarily involving government. This is a methodology I\u2019ll encourage my organisation to adopt\u201d, Shaka Kawa, SLOIC<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve learned a lot; and I\u2019m surely going to integrate the Open Space Technology into my radio programing. The usual practice is that, before presenting on radio, we already have our topics formulated, and the audience is not allowed to deviate from such topics. But I\u2019m going to change that, and have a novelty in the media landscape in Sierra Leone\u201d, Theophilus Sahr Gbenda, Community Media Network.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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