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TRAINING FOR TRANSFORMATION - CREATING PARTICIPATION - ADDING VALUE
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The initial experiences showed that we could not expect behaviour change results based on capital investment and ad hoc interventions alone. Such strategy proved to be unsuccessful as initially a lot of street selling continued to flourish despite the new implemented Markets. Thus more interventions in capacity building and awareness programmes were hold, after the promised comparative advantages of the Markets towards other venues, as well as street selling were visible and tangible to all. In an environment were street selling was the norm and no real Market culture in place, the achievement of integrating 800 out of a total number of 1000 informal hawkers in an organized hygienic trading space and create enough sense of ownership to be able to implement a fee structure accepted and paid for by all is certainly a success, especially in a cultural environment where payments for services provided by the GRN was something non of the beneficiaries where used to before. Creating "value adding" trades in a sector where previously most traders made money by eliminating overheads and adding small margins to the re-sale of locally purchased goods, was another of the major results achieved during the project cycle. A first evaluation process and stock of lessons learned was organized by the PC* in March-2002 in form of a handing over workshop, the delegates were the Market operators, the Town Management team, the Town Councillors and the Nam/330 Project team. This kind of approach saw the evaluation as an integral part of the development or a change process: “reflection-action”. People in this evaluation form are no more seen as” objects” of evaluation but “subjects” of evaluation and take a more active role. The methods chosen should enhance our capacity to collect and analyse information relevant to us and our situation. *PC= Project coordinator
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| A service mill established | Learning how to scall and sell | Horticulture marketing | Market women selling workshop | Market Producers exchange trip |
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| The new Market committee | Brainstorming and SWOT analysis by the beneficiaries themselves during the project | Workshop participants | Workshop objectives | |
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Market committee training |
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The traditional leadership in Rundu meets the modern political leadership in order to present their readiness to support developmental activities in Rundu and specifically to show that all are supporting the Rundu Open Markets |
The local authorities taking contact with the grass-roots
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During interviews it was established that vendors inside the Markets are
happy with the facilities despite suggestions for improvements
Here Councilor Mupiri interviewing one vendor. |
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| During a team building exercise it was discovered that we all depend on each other, that we need to build trust in order to move ahead and that the leader not necessarily runs off in front but supports from behind. In the game Ms. Kamutali leads Mr. Muhepa, Mr. Katangha and Mr. Makay as the only “seeing” to the desired destination. |
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Officials from the Rundu Town Council meet with vendors and customers from the Kehemu Open Market. People treat each other respectfully and wisely. Councilor Siyemo, Ms. Kamutali and Mr. Vendura listen to what the vendors from the Kehemu Market have to say. | |||
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Mr. Makay,
the Rundu Public Relations Officer discovers that it is important to gather
data on developments inside the community in
order to be able to promote the
community to the outside. |
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| Some of the images used in the "Rules and Regulation" to be used by the Market committee as a "worktool" to promote the Market themselves The rules and regulations grips: rental fees, temporary hiring of the market facilities, loss of properties, arguments, breakage and damages, operating hours, quarrelling, street seller problems and inspection. | ||||
