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The fifteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Gene Smith writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 15: Promote engagement in the political process, through civic education of individuals and communities.
Start with these facts: four hundred people banished because of leprosy build [...]

The fourteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Fr Robert P. Maloney, CM writes:
The fourth people-oriented strategy formulated by the members of the Commission for Promoting Systemic Change states:
Promote learning processes in which the members of [...]

The fourteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Fr Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 13: Construct structural and institutional models where communities can identify their resources and needs, make informed decisions, and exchange information and effective [...]

The thirteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Sister Ellen Flynn, D.C. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 12: Educate, train and offer spiritual formation to all participants in the project.
One of the clearest examples of spiritual formation [...]

The twelfth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Gene Smith writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 12: Be transparent by inviting participation in budget preparation, by seeking comments on financial reports and by maintaining careful controls over money management.
Several [...]

The tenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. The Rev. Fr. Norberto L. Carcellar, C. M. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 11 : Involve the poor themselves, including the young and women, at all stages: identification of needs, planning, implementation, [...]

Each of the past eight weeks has featured a strategy for systemic change. This week, we reprise the introduction to the series by Robert Maloney, C.M., both as a way of placing the preceding strategies in context and as a way to prepare for looking at the remaining strategies. Father Maloney writes:
In an address given [...]

The ninth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Patricia Nava writes:
Systemic Change Strategy Eight: Listen carefully and seek to understand the needs and aspirations of the poor, creating an atmosphere of respect and mutual confidence and fostering self-esteem [...]

The eighth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes:

Systemic Change Strategy Seven: Make the project self-sustaining by guaranteeing that it will have the human and economic resources needed for it to last.
Whether a project [...]

The seventh in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Robert Maloney, C.M. writes:

Systemic Change Strategy Six: Systematize, institutionalize and evaluate the project and its procedures, describing measurable indicators and results.
In this strategy, all three verbs are important:
First, systematize. [...]

The sixth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Sister Ellen Flynn DC, Province of Great Britain, writes:
Systemic Change Strategy Six: Implement coherent strategies, starting modestly, delegating tasks and responsibilities, and providing quality services respectful of human dignity.

Start modestly. [...]

The fifth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. The Rev. Fr. Norberto L. Carcellar, C. M. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy Five: Have a holistic vision which addresses basic human needs – individual and social, spiritual and physical, [...]

The fourth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Patricia Nava writes:
When less than one per cent of people own the land on which they farm, the community is set up for trouble. Usurers – those who lend [...]

The third in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Gene Smith writes:
Strategy Three: In maintaining a profound respect for local culture, evangelize and enculturate Christian and Vincentian values and charism.

In Kenya, 80% of the population live in rural [...]

The second in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by the members of the Systemic Change Commission of the Vincentian Family. This week, Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes:

Recently I visited a Craft Fair in New York City. One of the booths offered beautiful mats, hats, hand bags, wall decorations and [...]