OUR PHILOSOPHY
We empower individuals, enabling them to engage in behaviors through which they take control of their lives and fully realize their potential.
Our methodology
HOW WE DO IT
Grounded in our experience, we developed the Framework for Facilitating Intrinsic Empowerment (FrEE), which operationalizes Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize-winning Human Capabilities Approach. FrEE forms the conceptual and strategic basis for the design, implementation and evaluation of all the I want to, I can programs.
To read more about the FrEE approach, we recommend the book Breaking the Poverty Cycle by Susan Pick and Jenna Sirkin.
Contextual Grounding
We start with the real needs of the populations with which we work, identified through our diagnostic studies. We take into account the sociocultural norms and the educational, health, governmental and economic services that are present in the region.
Tools to address situational demands
We train replicators in educational, community or institutional environments through workshops which they then replicate with the target population, accompanied by our team. These workshops are experiential and formative, providing participants with life skills and knowledge about the program topics and reducing psychosocial barriers.
Knowledge
Life skills
Psychosocial barriers
- Education
- Health
- Citizenship
- Productivity
- Self-awareness
- Expression & management of emotions
- Assertive communication
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Empathy
- Shame
- Guilt
- Fear
- Resentments
- Prejudices
Changes in Key Behaviors
Key behaviors are put into practice in everyday life, facilitating a process of change that moves through different phases: contemplation; preparation for action, action and maintenance of these behaviors, all with the support of our team.
People as Agents of Change
Now participants are empowered and convinced that they have made behavior changes to improve their lives. They feel they are able to make decisions and take responsibility for the consequences. They become agents of change in their families and communities.
Community Development
The changes influence sociocultural norms in a way that takes into account the common good. Educators, community leaders and health personnel work together to achieve sustainable change through community participation and the intrinsic empowerment of each person.
