The chapatti
tool was disbursed to the participants from the women and mens' forums in an effort for them to further explore
power relationships within the community. Particularly it was to understand the
importance and influence of the different powers that be and how they can
influence Rights demand and the level of achieving these rights.
The first
step followed was to get the participants to understand the tool and how it can
be used. Then the different cards of different sizes were prepared and one
individual representing the group was then placing the cards on flip chats a
complete list of all the
people, groups or organisations that exist and have an influence on the person,
group as well as organisations and community.
and later
the whole group discussed in plenary. The discussions were by the two groups
facilitated by me. The participants came up with different views of which group
of people had in fact more power yet it is the same community.
Lesson
learnt is that different people are aware of different powers and how they can
be influenced thus in solidarity such discrepancies can be overcome.
The
participants in fact released that they had different perspectives on power
relation issues. They further understood that discussing issues together and
mapping them out using R-A tools was very beneficial for it drafted out several
ways.
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