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International Skills-based Volunteering Best Practices
This document provides best practices and guidance for productive experteering partnerships. It emphasizes building mutual understanding and respect between experteering volunteers and local partners. Volunteers should focus on empowering local efforts and designing projects for long-term impact. Cultural sensitivity is important, and volunteers should avoid making assumptions based on a single story. Thorough planning and reflection are encouraged to get the most out of experteering experiences.
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- 1. Experteering Best Practices Title Slide Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org @Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org
- 2. You get thebest out of others when you give the best of yourself Harvey S. Firestone
- 3. Global Development andthe “Global Talent Gap”
- 4. We have tohave more concepts than just ‘developing countries’ and ‘developing world’ Hans Rosling
- 5. The Global TalentGap YOU!
- 6. Preparing Yourself fora Productive Partnership
- 7. Build a MutuallyBeneficial Partnership The keys to every successful Experteering partnership are trust, respect, and understanding
- 8. Empathy fuels connection. Sympathy drives disconnection. Dr. Brene Brown
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- 10. 9 Questions toAsk When Finding Opportunities 1 Does it protect local jobs? 2 Can you transfer skills? 3 Will you be able to measure impact? 4 Are goals and projects driven locally? 5 Can this project create a long-term impact? 6 Are you qualified to do this project? 7 How will locals perceive you? 8 Is it in the best benefit of your host? 9 Will priority remain on beneficiaries, not on you? LearningService.info
- 11. Tips and Resourcesfor a Productive Planning Process
- 12. What you bringto the organization should be at least as valuable as the resources you are taking. LearningService.info
- 13. A Complete PlanningProcess 1 Project Description 2 Desired Project Outcome and Deliverables 3 Work and Role Descriptions 4 Project Sustainability Plan 5 Definition of Success (personal and professional) 6 On Site Logistics 7 Mutual Agreement of #1-6
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- 15. If you wantto help someone… Shut-up and listen! Ernesto Sirolli
- 16. “Being A ValuableVolunteer” 1 Keep your mind open 2 Embrace new experiences and ideas 3 Commit to learning and sharing 4 Act with humility 5 Empower local efforts 6 Design for long-term impact LearningService.info
- 17. Cultural Sensitivity and Communication
- 18. Communication "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats
- 19. All I hadheard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them. Chimamanda Adichie
- 20. BEWARE OF YOUR SINGLE STORY OF THEM WATCH OUT FOR THEIR SINGLE STORY OF YOU
- 21. Getting the MostOut of Your Experteering Trip
- 22. Take Time toReflect “Honest self reflection opens your mind to reprogramming change, success, and freedom.” Trudy Vesotsky
- 23. Reflection Options Easiest Use Facebook Notes and add pictures to document your experience Bit More Work Sign-up for Medium or Tumblr to easily write about and share your experience online Most Customizable & Unique Build your own custom blog with personal URL on WordPress.
- 24. Questions? Brought toyou by the Citizen Diplomacy Network
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- 26. Learn from thepeople Plan with the people Begin with what they have Build on what they know Of the best leaders When the task is accomplished The people will remark We have done it ourselves. -Lao Tzu
- 27. Thank you! TitleSlide Mark Horoszowski of MovingWorlds.org @Experteering | mark@movingworlds.org
Editor's Notes
- #5 When volunteering your skills Internationally - aka Experteering - it is important to remember our assumptions are not always right. To be effective, an Experteer should fully grasp the state of global development, both locally and globally. Be careful of assumptions, and spend time researching, observing, and immersing yourself before attempting to support local efforts. If Hans was going to talk to you before your Experteering trip, he would say: If you have the financial means to travel the world, it's probably because you came from a country that first developed it's economy, and then was able to build social services. As Hans highlights, consider the USA 100 years ago vs. China today. Your impression of the location you're going to might be wrong, so don't carry this notion of a "developing" country- instead, focus on standing as equals and working together for everyone's good.
- #6 Responsible development is achieved when enterprises can access capital, markets, and TALENT to scale, provide essential services to more people, and create jobs. However, according to leading global development organizations, "Lack of access to talent is the 2nd leading barrier to progress." In other words, a lack of access to expertise is hindering progress.2 By volunteering your skills - going Experteering - you are not only working on projects to help accelerate progress, but also transferring knowledge to others to continue to accelerate impact after you leave.3
- #23 Reflection is another word for learning, but reflection is learning based off of experience. Through reflection people analyze concepts, evaluate experiences, and form opinions. Beyond accelerating learning, reflection also improves happiness.7 We encourage Experteer’s to take time to reflect before, during, and after your experience. It will support you during your trip and also allow you to take the lessons you learned and apply them to your work and life at home.
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