1. Clients to Constituency Can Organizing End the Dependency Cycle? 18 December 2013 Natalie Finstad, Tatua Kenya Leading Change Network

2. Team for Session Technology Dan Grandone Time Keeping Nisreen Haj Ahmed Chat Monitor Joseph Worthy Scribe Sarah Welch 3. Technology Reminders 4. Agenda for Day 11: 00 Welcome and Housekeeping 11: 10 Introduction to Tatua 11:15 Group Discussion on Case Studies 12:05 What Next? 12:20 Evaluation 5. Goals for Day Learn about the role of organizing in ending the dependency cycle through a discussion of our respective experiences. Identify key actions we can take, in our individual work, to address the dependency cycle through organizing Discuss our collective responsibility as organizers to address the dependency cycle. Set Next Step for this discussion 6. Chat Room Norms Chat can be used to comment on what is currently being shared by the speaker. If youd like to speak, indicate in the chat room and type 1-2 sentences about your contribution. Joe will be alerting people that they will be speaking through a private message keep an eye on your chat. Make sure you are messaging all when youre on the chat room 7. Collaborative Strategy Who has been the lead on strategy creation in your campaigns? A staff or the community themselves? If you were Tatua how would you structure the work so that the community has a key role in creating strategy? How do we continue to practice leadership while inviting the community in to create the strategy/structure for the campaign? 8. Short-Term Actions, Long-Term Implications Compare the actions of the missionaries in Kajiado vs. the history of Maseno, what mistakes were made? Why? What would you do if you found a population without water, food, access to education? How could you develop leadership while addressing these challenges? 9. Adaptive Change Why do we sometimes use organizing as a technical solution? How do we create the conditions for the community to adapt? How would you work with some one like Rose to develop her leadership? What made the application of the organizing skills with Rose adaptive vs. technical? 10. Building Relationships What relationship structure was created by the Methodist Hospital developing a completely free service model? In organizing, relationships are built on through the exchange of resources on the basis of a shared interest, what is the shared interest in this study? What resources could be contributed? If you entered into this dynamic, now, what actions would you suggest to redefine the relationship? 11. What Now? How does this affect your work? What is our collective responsibility as organizers to address the dependency cycle? What next steps can we take together?