See here the draft version of the Quality System published on the wiki: http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Quality

You are welcome to contribute! Please give your feedback on the Discussion Pages on the Wiki and/or in the discussion space of Eugad Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=13900&post=69753&uid=211965065353#post69753

by Wilma Massucco

• Linkofo the Good Practice for the manual
• Read here the written report of the meeting. In italian language  www.comune.modena.it/effettomodena/news/stati-generali-riunite-le-associazioni-straniere

by Wilma Massucco

“Even in such a case, however, that’s not enough” says Cecile Kyenge, Provincial Councellor of Modena. It’s first necessary to provide the immigrates with the tools required to empower them to be an active force in the political decision-making process of the town – starting from schools where immigrates can learn the Italian language, for example. Both immigrates and local authority need to be educated: inter-cultural competencies and the ‘know how’ focused to satisfy both the needs of locals and of immigrates are a must.

→ Read the complete interview at http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Cecile_Kyenge

by Wilma Massucco

The practice of OST has been selected as one of the good practices for the Eugad manual. You can read more about it in the following link – http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Good_practice_-_Open_Space_Technology_to_promote_intercultural_dialogue_(Modena,_Italy)

Below is the video of the OST in Modena (in Italian)

(1) regole dell’OST (2) le idee dei partecipanti (3) intervista a Marianella Sclavi al termine della giornata

by Wilma Massucco

This OST has been arranged particularly for Modena, but does not restrict there. The issues which will be touched concern all of us and as consequence common peole, technicians, associations, institutions are all invited to take part of. Eugad will be present there, to listen, learn and share.

All the details of the event are at http://www.facebook.com/pages/EUGAD/211965065353?ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=104413296273018&ref=mf

by Wilma Massucco

Makiguchi saw this shift not as merely representing a change in the venue or form of competition, but a qualitative transformation, from a winner-takes-all style of competition, to one conducted within a consciously acknowledged framework of cooperation, what today might be called a “win-win” mode of competition.

This concept of Humanitarian Competition, introduced by Makiguchi about one century ago, has been deepened and developed nowadays by Daisaku Ikeda, the current President of Soka Gakkai, with its Peace Proposal to the United Nations (2009)

→ Read the Article - http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Humanitarian_Competition:_a_key_paradigm_for_the_twenty-first_century

→ Read about Development Aid – http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Defining_Development

by Wilma Massucco

In her interview she speaks about the areas of cooperation  between the EU and India by focusing on developmental aid and the Sarva Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The SSA is a Government of India project to ensure primary education to all its children, an effort to achieve the 2nd MDG, to which the EU has contributed over 200 million euros in the past years

→ View Ms. Danièle Smadja’s complete interview at http://www.eugad.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Interview_to_Danièle_Smadja

by Fausto Aarya De Santis

Wilma Massucco has identified one good practice which has been implemented by the Municipality of Modena -  the ‘Via per Via’ project – whose purpose is to stimulate the participation of citizens focusing on migrants and youth,  who don’t often stay out of the social life of the town, to become more involved in the management of the “res publica”.

→ Read more about the ‘Via per Via’ project

by Wilma Massucco

What is your perception of aid coming from an other culture an an other country?

It’s a challenge, isn’t it. You have to be very sensitive on how much you challenge and how much you assist countries to achieve MDGs. I think it is how you approach… is about dialogue, about communication, it is certainly not taking a dictatorial or accusatory attitude towards any country or colture.

Do you think that local communities have say in how the aid is used?

That is one of the biggest challenge, i would say. We get it badly wrong in occasion… because if you want to be inclusive and genuine then you need to work at very grass root level and you need to do you over a very long period of time because you want to include the voices of the most disfranchised. To get that authentic voice takes trust, takes time, takes investment… and very often agencies don’t have that length of time to achieve the scope of goals they want to. The challenge of listening and being inclusive of community voices means that you have a much stronger solution to their problem… and i genuinely believe that all communities can actually find their own solution if you create the right space around them, the enabling environment and create the resources to make change, they can often come up with the right answers.

→ Find out out more  on our talk with Serge Latouche, the main exponent of the Degrowth theory, at University of Florence (Italy)

by Wilma Massucco