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Encounter and dialogue create the basis for individual
and joint action. The following guiding ideas shape the
objective of an exposure and dialogue programme:
Stimulation: The programme
seeks to provide the impetus for a course of action that
the participants themselves follow and develop further.
Their efforts are directed towards the person they met
in the encounter as an example of a poor person. They
see this man or woman in front of them; he or she is the
focus of all their efforts.
Forming new alliances of solidarity:
The dialogue can be an important tool for building up
alliances. The individual programmes are oriented towards
this goal, hence the complementary composition of the
participants. The organisers of the individual programmes
contribute to the networking by working with their partners
in the South and East to create a framework for the individual
exposure and dialogue programme (EDP) to help participants
become more creative.
Achieving synergy effects:
The workshop of solidarity in practice, which is how the
exposure and dialogue programme sees itself, is meant
to help develop structures that are appropriate to human
dignity, in which personal alliances form the cornerstones:
the will to offer mutual support is an expression of solidarity
in practice and is characteristic of the shared learning
process.
These guiding ideas also determine the follow-up steps
after the participants have returned home. Since systematic
evaluation of the many experiences that are recorded in
life
stories and experience reports requires time and
also a certain temporal distance, after the EDP there
is a follow-up event several months later in Germany.
The focus at this event is on the implementation steps
and follow-up projects that emerge during the follow-up
process and on the exchange with the other participants.
At the follow-up meeting there is also an evaluation of
the programme, which – if possible – is done
jointly with representatives of the partner organisation.
With a view to the implementation of the results, this
concluding part of an exposure and dialogue programme
covers the many steps from preparation to encounter, to
the reflection and dialogue phases in the field during
the programme and afterwards.
The plans for future activities show that the development
of the exposure and dialogue programme is in no way complete.
The thematic focus is increasingly on development strategies
that are directed towards holistic and sustainable development.
The resultant impact on development policy, economics,
society and the universal church is far-ranging. Some
examples of actions that have been implemented by participants
as part of the EDP follow-up are listed under impact.
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