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INTERSECTIONS A LEARNING & SHARING EVENT. ASCOT CONFERENCE CENTRE BY D.E. MALWANE 28 OCTOBER 2009. BALANCING ACTS. Participation: the main ingredient for good development (Joseph Francis) Integrating HIV and food security (Joseph Francis)
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INTERSECTIONSA LEARNING & SHARING EVENT ASCOT CONFERENCE CENTRE BY D.E. MALWANE 28 OCTOBER 2009
BALANCING ACTS • Participation: the main ingredient for good development (Joseph Francis) • Integrating HIV and food security (Joseph Francis) • When is it welfare and when is it development (Julian May) • Short term support for long term gain: meeting the gender agenda (Glynis Rhodes) • Sustainable agriculture, food security and income generation (Maxwell Mudhara)
Participation: the main ingredient for good development • A call needed for dev. practitioners to sit down, listen and learn and empower those who are weak and vulnerable • IF THIS IS THE SITUATION, SO WHAT? • Enhance beneficiaries involvement in local development efforts • Build bridges and linkages for collective action • Promote self-discovery within communities • Amplify community voices and decision making
Integrating HIV and food security • Do we have clear strategies, expertise, comprehensive policy framework, systems, programs and a direction to integrate HIV and food security? • Limited resources – funding is either for HIV or food security • Training in silos – e.g. agricultural interventions • Stigma related to HIV still an obstacle • Lack of consideration of other issues such as drought, water supply which end up impacting the integration.
When is it welfare and when is it development? • There is a strong concern that food security programs cannot exist alone without linking to other programs • HIV programs with food security need a holistic approach • Social security is development • Redistribution • Growth
Short term support for long term gain: meeting the gender agenda • Culture and tradition, patriarchal social system, religion and the church determine women priorities • The difference between men and women are expresses in the form of gender inequality • Men tend to see themselves superior and women inferior • Total women emancipation and transformation is possible (social relations can change)
Sustainable agriculture, food security and income generation • Limited of access to land • Water scarcity • Climate change • Markets are not properly developed for the small community sectors • Limited resources (funding) • Crime (stealing of equipment and farm produce) • Low literacy levels
Emerging issues • Are we applying correct skills to document our experiences? • How do we deal with donor dictatorship? • How do we takle with conspiracy of silence? • Lack of belief by practitioners in community’s ability to champion local development efforts