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A short questionnaire

The power of Local Response

Below you will find 5 opinions. Before you start the Blended Learning programme, we would like you to reflect on these opinions and to develop your own response to each of the statements.
For each of the 5 statements, it would be very useful if you were to write at least a couple of sentences that expressed that view.
If you wish, feel free to write more.

1. During the last 200 years, the Western world has developed a vast storehouse of knowledge. It is our duty and our responsibility to use that knowledge to address and to solve the problems of the developing world.
   
   
2. “I believe that if you show people a problem, and then you show them the solution, then they will be moved to act...” Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the introduction to the Global Malaria Action Plan.
   
   
3. When people assess themselves (with regard to HIV/AIDS or malaria for example), it is very useful to have someone from the outside to validate that self assessment.
   
   
4. When an NGO works with a community, the NGO must measure the progress that the community makes during the course of the project. When it does this, it can measure the effectiveness of the intervention and can thus show the success of its work to others.
   
   
5. All of our experiences are so dependent on cultural context that all learning is local. What we learn in Kinshasa cannot be applied in Brussels.
   

At the end of the programme, return to these statements and your initial responses to them.
Have they changed?
Write a sentence or two for each of the 5 statements to show how your thinking has developed during the programme.

Can you think of an example from your personal experience that illustrates how you now think about each of these issues?