RE-DESIGNING LINKING AND LEARNING TO ENSURE INCLUSIVITY: A Community Connected for Change
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Linking and Learning’s message is that even if we have different sectoral issues, we are one in the fight for inclusion. The activity was a community-building exercise bridging our needs and other rightsholders within the whole framework of the Voice inclusion strategy.” - Voice Grantee
To illustrate the immensity of the changes in how the Linking and Learning implementation was done pre-pandemic to what is now commonly called the ‘new normal’, it helps to look at how linking and learning’s major activities were done in the previous years, moving towards the current setup. One of the much-awaited events of Voice is the annual national summit. From March 2018 up to March 2021, Voice Linking and Learning in the Philippines would physically gather grantees and rightsholders from different parts of the country so they can share and understand stories about each other’s work, and freely express and share opinions, learnings, good practices, and strategies. The summit provided the grantees and rightsholders a venue where they could amplify their voices and fulfill the linking and learning process because it provides a safe and inclusive space for dialogue and dissent. Here they could compare approaches and see how each project and advocacy may be related to one another, creating openings for possible assistance and collaboration.
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