Mosaic Project Worksheet 2012
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MOSAIC PROJECT WORKSHEET 2012
This document exists to make project planning easier. It will help you shape your educational goals, process and evaluation according to the Mosaic
framework. It should be completed in consultation with your support person. Please be as clear and detailed as possible as you complete the worksheet.
Host Chapter / CISV Brazil / National Association / CISV BrazilProject Name / Because Dignity Is A Human Right
Provide a brief summary of the project.
“Because Dignity Is A Human Right” proposal is to take advantage of having so many CISVers - active global citizens – in Salvador for AIM and promote a discussion abouthow CISV interact with the community in all its levels.
Through a series of actions before and during AIM and having the Human Rights, our theme of the year, as background, we expect to explore and analyse ideasfor promoting this community interaction in our programmes, meetings and activities.
Peace Education Content Area (Tick one or more)
Diversity > / Sustainable Development > / Conflict & Resolution > / Human Rights > / XHow does this
project address a local
NEED and INTEREST
in your community / Salvador - like all the big Brazilian cities - concentrate vulnerable areas and neighborhoods full of problems and violations of the human rights that need attention and care. Government isn’t capable of providing adequate solutions for all thesedemands, either because of inefficiency or omission.In this scenario, the civil society organizations end up as an essential agent of human rights promotion in local vulnerable communities. There are countless challenges faced by them, including the lack of financial resources for their projects. In that context, these organizations require a lot of support to continue their activities and attend the community needs.
Also, CISV purpose and mission must guide all the organization activities including our and meetings. Therefore, we believe it is of CISV interest to get closer interaction with the local communities and have a more direct and active role on the promotion of human rights.
General Information
Target Group / AIM participantsEstimated number of participants / 50 / Actual number / 50
Estimated number new to CISV / 0 / Actual number / 0
Project Start Date (D / M / Y) / 01/08/2013 / Project End Date / 11/08/2013 / Note any date changes
Project Support Person / Mauricio Hirdes
Educational Goals and Indicators: What do you want them to learn?
For each program goal, create indicators for your project. Indicators are the Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge participants demonstrate as a result of their participation. An example would be “the ability to explain aspects of the project theme” or “the willingness to take local action”. Each indicator is either an attitude (A), a skill (S) or a knowledge (K). For each program goal, create a set of indicators that relate to your project. We recommend three indicators per goal but you can create fewer or more. It is not necessary to have one A, one S and one K for each goal. Use the short goal “explanations” below to help inspire your indicators.
Goal 1: Mosaic projects aim to actively explore a theme in a local context
This means that participants:
- Understand the theme and the project’s relevance:
- Understand opportunities and challenges affecting the community and;
- Are able to connect the theme with everyday life.
Understanding of how CISV mission and values should be reflected in all the organization activities. / Comments during debriefing discussions. / 3 / People commented the importance of CISV values being present in any activity or event we do.
Goal 2: Mosaic encourages creative and critical thinking towards problems and solutions
This means that participants:
- Understand where their own opinions on the theme fit in a range of local and global perspectives;
- Are willing to challenge their own perspectives and be challenged;
- Are able to use open dialogue to work towards solutions;
Critical thinking of the positive and negative effects of community interaction on the educational process of our programmes. / Selection of the most feasible suggestions within the programmes committees. / 1 / We didn’t manage to work with the committees during AIM.
Goal 3: Mosaic creates a personal desire for active citizenship
This means that participants:
- Are able to explain and share what they have learned.
- Are able to reflect their strengths and potential
- Are willing to act and take a stand
Willingness to take the discussion of interaction with the community to their NAs and chapters. / Final compilation of ideas. / 2 / Although the compilation didn’t happen, some people affirmed they would think of ways to increase the work with community in their chapters.
Goal 4: Mosaic empowers participants to take initiative in their communities
This means that participants:
- Are willing to show empathy through your actions;
- Are able to identify and use available resource.
- Are able to make a plan of action
Knowledge of best practices on events ofCISV and other organizations. / Participation in the discussion group. / 1 / This part never happened.
Educational Process: What are you going to do?
In this section, explain the activities and events that will make up your project. Please provide enough details so that a person who knows nothing about your project will get a good, basic understanding of it. For each activity, indicate if it fits in the Discover, Understand, Create phase. Also, indicate which goal each activity relates to.
#1 – Donation campaign
As a quickstart for our project, we are going to promote a donation campaign for Pituba Community Center. We are encouraging AIM participants to bring different items that can be useful for our partner organization.
The promotion will be made through a series of flyers, each one containing information about human rights and giving a suggestion of item to bring and how it would help the projects of Pituba Community Center.
We are also setting information banners with more detailed information about Human Rights and our partner organization. / Discover / Goal 1
#2 – Story books made of recycled CDs
Here, we want to explore another possibility of community interaction: creating something during the event.
So taking into consideration one of the needs from this community – reading promotion – and using the skill of one of our volunteers, we propose a workshop where our participants will be able to create story books made of recycled CDs.
The books made will be given to Pituba Community Center and will be added to their library. / Discover / Goal 1 and 2
#3 – Programmes brainstorming
We are asking each committee to write a paragraph about how their programme promotes interaction with the community in a macro level (characteristics of every programme). That will be posted near their committee room.
Then, we are encouraging all AIM participants to write down cases and ideas of interaction with the community for that programme in the chapter level (something that a staff could decide doing in their programme). These ideas are given to the committee to be discussed, taking into consideration feasibility and positive and negative effects on the educational process of the programme. / Understand and Create / Goals 2, 3 and 4
#4 – Discussion group
We are facilitating a group for people willing to discuss the possibilities of interaction with the community during CISV events like AIM, IJBC and RTFs.
After presenting real cases from CISV and other organizations, we are asking the group to come up with a plan of community interaction for a hypothetical event, based on given information. / Understand and Create / Goals 2, 3 and 4
#5 –Compilation of ideas
We want to compile the best ideas and use it for promoting community interaction within CISV. The working group will decide the media according to the results. / Create / Goals 3 and 4
Community Partnerships Who are you working with?
Partner / Benefit of the Partnership / E-mail / Website / CommentPituba Community Center / Acess to the chosen community
About your Partner and their ROLE in the project: / The partner organization is a community center from Salvador that assist around 300 people in several different projects including a day care center for 115 children, a temporary shelter for homeless people, a drug rehabilitation center, removal of children subject to child labor, garbage collectors cooperative, digital inclusion for adults, free psychological and legal assistance, free dental care, training for housekeepers and painting and crafts for adults.
They have a passive role, receiving the donations and directing them to the projects.
How successful was the partnership? / The partnership went according to the plan. Pituba Community Center picked up all the donations and distributed through its programmes. In the end we tried to have someone from the partner organization as a guest speaker and participate in our workshop session, but that wasn’t possible.
That said, Pituba Community Center is a successful long-term partner and Salvador chapter did other Mosaic projects with them before and after AIM, where interaction was much more intense.
Financial Resources
Do you have the necessary financial resources? / Sim / Final result / We didn’t need any financial resources.Our chapters donated all the material we used during our workshop session and the transportation of the donations from AIM participants was done by our partner organization.
Where did your funding come from? / Donation from CISVers / Any additional sources? / No
Project Coordinator Information
Given Name / MauricioSurname / Hirdes
Number & Street / Rua São Carlos do Pinhal, 270 apto 81 - Bela Vista
Town / City / São Paulo / Area / State / Province / SP
Country / Brazil / Postcode / Zip code / 01333-000
Country Code / Area Code / Local Number
Contact Tel / +55 / 11 / 992876053
E-mail /
Skype Username / mauricio.hirdes
Training Information
Did Project Staff receive training? / SIM / Type / REGIONAL MOSAIC TRAININGWho was trained? / Mauricio Hirdes / Cláudia Boim
Location / São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
Year / 2008 / 2010
If your answer is Yes, which elements from the training did you most use during the implementation of your project?
Conclusions and Feedback Please draw conclusions and reflections. Also explain what potential exists for future projects.
When CISV Canada’s president suggested bringing donations to a non-profit organization in Brazil, we saw an opportunity there. An opportunity and a challenge: to create a Mosaic project that could involve all AIM participants. We came up with a series of actions and activities to be done before and after AIM which would lead the group through a critical thinking over the theme of the year – Human Rights – and how CISV interacts with the communities around our programmes and events.We got very satisfied with the participation in the donation campaign, the first part of our project. People shared the flyers, collected donations in their chapters, brought enough items to fill a truck. And our partner organization was equally satisfied with the result. Also, we had a workshop session creating storybooks out of recycled material and the participants loved it.
Unfortunately we couldn’t keep up with the project during AIM. We were short on AIM staff and people ended up with many different responsibilities, making it impossible to focus on our Mosaic project. Also we didn’t take into consideration the intense schedule for AIM participants and most committee rooms were quite empty this year.
Therefore, we didn’t finish the project. Maybe the challenge was more than what we could handle but we believe in a different situation it could be a more successful project. We are happy about the experience and feel inspired to try other ideas.
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Project / Approved | X | Rejected | | Approved with request | | / Date (dd-mm-yyyy) / 05-06-2013Request/Comments