Why We Need to Work Together

They can address their own problem in the community through working together. They can build solidarity and unity among their members. Improve the better making a decision together in order to peacefully resolve any conflict and avert those conflicts. Exert pressure over governor or decision maker related to the services delivery. Make a difference of guideline or law affected to community.

To achieve those expectations, the community or core group needs to work together closely and always maintain monitoring process so that they establish relationship with the potential and existed alliances then increase support from them.

Challenge for rural people in collecting resources to address issues:
-People may be at high risk of livelihood, economy and physique while they claim their rights.
-It might be hard to lobby enough people to participate with us.
-It may take longer to strengthen people and resources to challenge against problem.
-People have different ideas and level of determination enable toward disharmony.
-Increasingly longer to overcome the government’s bureaucracy system.

To raise our demand, problem and community’s challenges you have to create the core group/focal points. The members have dedication and facilitation to share, analyze and action together. When you start to create the core group at first time, your people may not interest in the requirement of resettlement of problem. Sometime they do not feel that those are the problem in locality. Lobbying the people to participate with us is kind of tough affair but many problems were identified by as many of you. So you need many people to join and resolve those problems.

First, you need to create a small core group of people to work. This group is responsible to collect data and identify the problem and design a long term strategy. It is important to look for an effective leader and member in order to resolve problem. Leader may originates from other sources and have official position in community. Leader is fascinated from the people with his/her deep sympathy and motivation. He or she is aware of problem clearly and create dynamics to educate and gather local people.

A good leader is one who has good speaking skill, motivate others with a respect, dare to take risk, transfer crucial works to follower, assist to solve problem, push to have problem solving with initiatives, information sharing, accountability for his/her performance, communicate with and inspire members, he/she has own principle and conscience, he who believe that power shall be used very well if shared.

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Our Rights in Our Locality

The local people have the right to advocate in order getting better access to fishing lot, wood interest, healthcare, education, and other services. All these rights are stipulated and guaranteed in the national constitution as the bill of rights.

The word ‘Basically human right strategy’ was frequently used to depict the campaign in addressing issues related to human rights,civil rights movement based in community [ Refer to a group of people who live in the same places for example village of, commune, district and province/town then they communicate in the society and they are also interested in the same thing together]. What does this term really mean?

It means that empowerment of people to realize them of their rights and enjoy those rights so that they can exercise them as well. Meanwhile, they believe that the government must play the key roles in term of promoting basic rights for people. Generally, we divide two main categories of people are rights owner and rights governor.

Right Owner: this means that a person or a group of people who was granted the special privilege for example the Cambodian children have the rights to gain education by free of charge. All Cambodians have to right to avoid from police’s punishment. Sometimes, the people’s rights were not fully executed; therefore the people have to advocate claiming rights.

Basically human rights strategy pushes to materialize the human right respect and exercising of the rights. That is why it is required to have active and concerted participation from people to maintain their rights and monitor the Government’s practice.

Governor: Any individual who is in charge of and promote the basic rights and protect them as well. He is also responsible for protection of any people’s right abuse. Normally, those are who were selected from voting or taking in office at the government level including police, judge, parliamentarian, officers, and prime minister too.

The government’s role is to protect its people. Its responsibilities are delivering of education service, health care, and protect and promote human rights. And the people definitely acquire those services basically because this is the right which they must receive it but not the gift.

Conclusion
The community should find out and mobilize the resources effectively. It is important when the problem was identified then members in the locality have to participate to get involved in discussing, learning, analysis, information sharing, combined activity in order to address those problems. It enables a community with independence, ownership, self-reliance and improve livelihood.

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Advantages of Partnership

The successful partnership may bring the mutual important benefits to both partners and supporters. Those advantages are:

Resources Increase
While the partners partake to perform as team player together therefore they could integrate their resources or input. As the outcome, there will have more of human resources to get involved in the project within a variety of skill, budget and materials combination for project implementation goes smoothly and effectively.

Good Facilitation
Sometimes, the commune council, civil society organizations or other community groups perform duty in the same time. And at any time, all of them decide to work together very well that they also accomplished enormous benefits by investing less cost.

Much Participation
Whenever the commune council concerted in effort with the civil society organizations like non-governmental organizations or other community groups enable more people to partake in the project operation process well.

Better Services

Working together is better that working alone.

Rapid Project Termination

As the partners working together to achieve the overall goal, of course they could come to end project rapidly very well in term of working as team is better than working by you lonely.

Partners refer to commune council, Government institution, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, monks, elder people, private sector, youth association, women group, worker associations working together is better than alone.

There are many activities that the commune council shall work to development in localities with partners as following:

Development Activity
Projects are likely infrastructure like road construction, set up irrigation system, install electrical net, and conduct refresher training on agriculture, environment protection…

Policy Making
The commune council has to draft the regulations for ensuring the effective and efficiency in order to implement any project and disseminate those to partners.

Facilitation
The partners may help to mediate some conflicts happen in the local areas like land issues, domestic violence, and inheritance and paying off debt. They could suggest initiatives to the commune council of some good pieces of advices, approach and other appropriate mechanism to address the problem and monitoring of any progress.

Advocacy
It is a combination of activity to persuade or lobby and push the economic, politic powerful persons includes the government to change the decision or accept to carry out based on public policy. This move would benefit to the poor and less powerful politician. Partners can assist the commune council in advocacy through providing crucial skill like how to collect data contribute to educate local people and prove to the senior leader for intervention.

Public Services
Private partners can assist commune council services through electricity, clean water, and solid waste management.

Most of the people are living in the developing countries are at the rural areas. They may at risk or limit access to facility or assistance in their livelihood. Then, there are many non-governmental organizations or humanitarian organizations are playing their key roles as generosity to stand benefits to the vulnerable people or beneficiaries through other development projects working as development partners


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Leadership in Community Plan

For sure, the realistic leaders always have their potential straits and leadership style. They really have high motivation to serve or work for the team and community based on theory of leadership. Even there is a difference between the leaders and community outreach; we still move forwards to make progress through our dedication and persistent effort.

Nevertheless, they should recognize that a leader is not the factor only who has influence to develop the group or community to engage with his/her participation leadership. However, a leader is a crucial part of the whole team. The characteristics of team and/ or community would help to identify activity so that a leader is able to comply with. So his leadership in the role for team player must be more important, and he is a person who has high motivation too.

So what does leadership mean in term of team player?
-A person who positively influence to others
-Positive influence to identify the goal and reach the accomplishment

And they can use potentials to others through:
-Using of power
-Using of both internal external influences
-Communication building

Here are some good ideas about leadership
A good leader is one who takes care of the common interest rather than personal interest. He has comprehensive wisdom; he is able judge before making a decision. He is flexible to the situation. He has accurate principles and stick to guideline implementation. Finally he could gather all members to work as team well.

Now we should understand about three kinds of leaders
1-Dictatorship or authoritarian: it is a type of collecting of power in hands of a people group.
2-Lassez-fairs: a process which all works were handed over to whole members making a decision.
3-Democratic leadership: it seems likely most effective method in leadership. All people includes leaders come together to make a decision over aspects in the community level.

We can ask a question that why is democratic leadership more effective than the other types. Well, this is because the work flow is simple and easy, the more amount of people work together the better they achieve goal, innovations came from exchange, and every single member feels that they get involved in the process of making a decision.

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