Proposal #60: Sabbatical.
I propose that for two years we host no International Programmes or AIM. This time would be used for chapters to re-organise their local resources and learn how to be self-sustainable and do local education.
Rationale:
CISV Chapters often have no clue of what they are doing. The success of a village is measured more by the budget impact than by the educational impact. A good chapter is a rich chapter, not a chapter that does more activities. Still, most chapters are poor and don’t do activities.
A reason for that is they are constantly focused on “looking for kids” and “looking for leaders” - leaving no time at all to actually be organised (meaning: an organisation). If we took two years off from camps, and used all our resources to focus on organisational development on the local level - we would be able to much more solid chapters - that can function and understand the organisation based on what it wants to achieve, rather than by what “the IO tells us to do”.
Respectfully submitted, Marcos (BRA)
4 Comments:
(Without intention to diminish the seriousness of this proposal:) A sabbatical would at least greatly reduce CISV's carbon footprint for a while!
I couldn't agree more with this proposal.
There is actually a kind of case study for this - both the year that Canada lost their insurance and the year that one chapter in France (Lyon?) chose to forego a year of programs and focus on local development.
canadians? lyon-people?
any insights?
But, in general, I think it's more than focusing only in local chapter development - ideally, there would be some sort of facilitations towards chapters learning what the fuck we are doing (educationally and strategically-for-peace wise).
In the meanwhile, also International People could go back to chapters and, again, learn what the fuck we're doing.
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