Programmes Workshop Day 3

Steve from TLM England & Wales shares their perspective

Mr Timekeeper Terver of TLM Nigeria keeps us in order

Phil loved Yohanna of TLM Niger's ideas on integral mission :)

Another long day of meetings today, though worthy of note was the usually late Terver Anyor of TLM Nigeria who kept us all right up to time in his role as chair, which is more than another other chair has done this week.  He says he'll be back to his usual ways tomorrow though!  We spent the morning looking at issues around specific problems faced by members with different roles, particularly about stories and fundraising opportunities, and whether saying no to a call for applications might be the wisest course in some situations.  Our overarching focus this week is the new Global Strategy, and we need to ensure that any project which we are designing and for which we seek funding must be based on sound needs analysis and must be aimed at helping us fulfill the missions laid out in the overall strategy and in the individual country strategies of all members involved in the project, whether in designing, resourcing or implementing that project.  In the afternoon we looked at integral mission, cultural misunderstandings and global indicators, a fairly diverse programme, it must be said!  By far the most fun bit was the session on culture and how the differences can impact how we work and relate to each other.  Sadly I don't have photos of the skits performed by staf grouped roughly by continent as I was filming them, but I can assure you that they were wonderful. 

Europe trying to find a single issue we can pick on, as, much like the rest of our colleagues at these meetings, we have all been exposed to a variety of cultures.  In the end we developed a skit about the apparent (and in this case actual) lack of hospitality seen in a British home.

Africa planning their 3 skits, one in Portuguese about how important it is to make guests feel welcome, one in French about the differences between city and village life, and one in English about the different approaches of Europeans and Africans to the same task.

South Asia plan their skit about the culture clashes when a staff member from Myanmar invites colleagues from India and Bangladesh for dinner, and the party is then crashed by a Nepali colleague.

East Asia Pacific group rehearsing their play about courtship in Papua New Guinea