Development Cooperation Handbook/Stories

Development Stories
⇒ Playlist on Youtube

How we produced the videos linked to this handbook

We are narrating here development cooperation stories.
Some of these stories have been used for the ⇒ the Vrinda project Documentary
The numbers (in brackets) refer to the relevant MDG.

Africa

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⇒ Community Tourism - Number2 River - (7) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Emergency Surgical Hospital - Goderich - (4) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Mothers Preparing Mothers - Susan and Cline Bays (1) (5) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Unsustainable Growth - Kono Town (7) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Women as Entrepreneurs - Petifu Chain (3) ⇒ playlist

India

⇒ A contagious joy transmitting health to children - (4) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Millennium Village Project - Jharkhand (1) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Learning to Share Learning - The KFI Story (2), (6) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Corporate Social Responsibility - Bengaluru, (2) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Employment as a Right - Varanasi (1) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Green Hands - Coimbatore (7) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Living with Dignity - Kolkata (6) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Responsible Development - Varanasi (8) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Right to Learn - Sarnath (2) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Weaving Empowerment - Almora (3) - ⇒ playlist

Lebanon

⇒ Diffusing Conflicts - South Lebanon (8) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Heritage and Community - Baalbek (8) ⇒ playlist

⇒ Peer to Peer Education Network on HIV/AIDS Prevention (6)

Syria

⇒ Valuing Water - Damascus (7) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Counselling Centres for Women - Damascus (5) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Village Business Incubator - Latakkia (3) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Improving Schools and Learning Environment - Damascus (2) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Youth & Heritage - Sweida (8) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Preservation and Development - MAM - Damascus (8) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Moving Hopes - Damascus (4) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Syrian Television - ⇒ playlist

⇒ BESP - Business Environment Simplification Program (8) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ SKILLS - Training Young Syrian Journalists (8) - ⇒ playlist

Colombia

⇒ Los derechos de la hospitalidad para las personas sin hogar - Bogotà (1) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Participación y empoderamiento - Barrio Villas Del Sol - Territorio de Derechos (2) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Community at Work - Ciudad Bolivar - Jan Pablo II (1) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Muisca Indigenous Heritage - (8) - ⇒ playlist

⇒ Desplazados - Santander (8) - ⇒ playlist

Cuba

⇒ Lo sviluppo sostenibile: il caso Cuba ⇒ playlist

The documentary approach

Tools

⇒ List of things to do in order to illustrate a project

What is development? So many hospitals built … so many teachers trained … so many villages electrified … and so on, so forth. Achieving objectives is, of course, important. But there is something else we need to say. It is the human story, the passion that drives cooperation workers, the joy - or frustration – they feel when they succeed - or fail - to bring more justice to the excluded. We need to reveal the challenges. How are local communities utilizing infrastructures created for them? Do they agree with the information they receive? Was, what donors gave away, really what receivers wanted? While collecting stories of the work in progress for the Millennium Goals, we learned that no-one can bring freedom to others. Empowerment cannot be "given". Like we cannot “deliver” education. Nor can we “buy” participation. Each one has to lead one's potential out of oneself. But, in order to recognize and express our potential, we need a society that does not marginalize and exclude. We need a healthy communication climate, where differences are respected and valued. We need freedom from mistrust and indifference. Only then, can we act in a reciprocally empowering process: because we acknowledge that, in order to fully realize ourselves, we need the self realization of the others.

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The stories edited in the Documentary:

⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 1-4
⇒ playlist on YouTube - Episodes 5-8
⇒ The Vimeo On Demand platform where the documentary is distributed

⇒ The Sustainable Development Goals