CORE II - #4

Hello everyone,

As promised, here is the March Newsletter!

On the agenda: lots of thank yous, and a few invitations !

First of all, thank you to all of you who were involved in the financial audit of the second phase of CoRe I. Everything was submitted on time thanks to your efforts!

Thank you also for your participation in the first webinar on February 19th, we'll talk about it right after!

Thank you again to all of you who are working hard to make the cross-functional dynamics of this program a reality! The first subgroup meetings have taken place, and it's very exciting!

And finally, thank you to everyone who sent, shared and disseminated news about their projects and activities, which you can find in this newsletter!

Regarding the invitations...

First invitation: Feel free to send us photos, videos, articles, and links as they come in, so we can circulate them in this monthly newsletter.

Second invitation: continue to participate in large numbers in the upcoming webinars, the details of which you will find in this newsletter, starting with the one on April 20 on capitalisation and International Volunteers.

We hope you enjoy reading it!

Thank you for your participation

Over 110 people gathered for the CoRe II launch webinar on February 19th. Thank you to everyone who spoke, reacted, asked questions... You all contributed to a wonderful, positive, and constructive dynamic!

Following the questionnaire we sent out, you generally expressed your enthusiasm for this second phase of the program. You also indicated that you now have a much clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the stakeholders, objectives, and activities!

Webinar series to delve deeper

Capitalizations and International Volunteers

Capitalizing on experience is a powerful approach for reviewing projects, initiatives, group dynamics, and experiences. It is also an excellent tool for highlighting lessons learned. Furthermore, it's a way to transform know-how into shareable knowledge.

There is not ONE but several methods for capitalizing; what is important is the meaning and purpose of the approach.

Capitalization allows for the strengthening of the actors' power to act, by making them aware of their capacities on the one hand, and by giving them the confidence to be able to value it, whether in the context of learning and transmission activities, or even influence and advocacy on the other.

Within our program, capitalisation will be able to strengthen practices at the local level, but may also involve planned thematic/methodological and gender subgroups.

CoRe II aims to put capitalisation at the heart of the programme, by offering stakeholders the means to take ownership of it.

Indeed, we know that capitalizing on experience can take time, and that as practitioners on the ground, we don't always have that. It can also require trust, which can be strengthened by sharing different capitalization practices and drawing inspiration from external practices.

That is why we have devised the dual system that we wish to present to you during the next webinar.

=> This mechanism will allow interested actors to host an international solidarity volunteer from a CoRe member country within their teams, to support them in their capitalization activities and other project activities.

=> This system will foster a learning community around knowledge sharing, giving everyone the opportunity to strengthen their practices

See you on April 20th from 12:00pm to 2:00pm French time.

Monitoring and evaluation of changes

The change-oriented monitoring and evaluation system will be presented to you, along with the overall framework and opportunities to participate in the experiment, in order to deepen your capabilities, identify and measure changes.

See you on June 4th from 12:00 to 14:00 French time.

Cross-functional groups

This webinar will take place to answer all your questions about: how to participate, how to share, how to stay informed, how to make connections, etc...

We will go into detail about the thematic groups, the methodological groups, the gender group and the Learning Facilitation Committee (LFC)

See you on July 2nd from 12:00pm to 2:00pm French time.