ACTIONS

Site selection and participatory research. A detailed profile will be created of each pilot community that will include demographic, socio-economic, geo-administrative, and environmental/ecological information on the current status and the future prospects of the area.

Willing, influential and fitting candidates from the target community will be selected to create one half of the workforce. This unit will be the inward-facing force of the intervention representing the values, uniqueness and sensitivities of the community. The other half of the workforce will be created by selecting educated young Nepalese from outside of the community, linking the inward and outward facing aspects of the intervention and allows the team to discuss non-conventional possibilities with the outside world.

Training and development. This mixed team of Nepalese workforce will then be rigorously trained and exposed to the ideas and themes of the sustainable development goals and the intervention modality. This will be the phase of schooling of the workforce on principles, values, contents, skills, delivery and communication regarding the intervention and the greater vision.

Sketching the theory of change. Development practitioners have developed logic models and logical frameworks as strategies and tools to plan and evaluate social change programs. While these models well articulate the goals and resources of an initiative or organization, they give less focus to the complex social, economic, political and institutional processes that underlie social and societal change. Thus, while logic models and logframes have developed an Implementation Theory behind their work, they can lack an underlying Theory of Change. Funnell & P. Rogers (2011). This phase focuses on a participatory workout on the creation of a theory of change considering all the local specificities.