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Advanced Facilitation
Facilitating Development Programme
Managing People Developmentally Course
Observation, Insight and Intervention
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Work and Services/Courses/Leading Development Practice Course.htm
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Library and Resources

Writings from Annual Reports

 

Articles

How do we know what difference we are making
1994 - In the name of development - Exploring issues of consultancy and fieldwork - from CDRAs Annual Report 1993 to 1994
1995 - Capacity Building - Myth or Reality? - From the CDRAs Annual Report 1994 to 1995
1995 - Desarrollo de la capacidad - mito o realidad - del Informe Anual 1994 to 1995 de la Asociación de Recursos de Desarrollo Comunitario (CDRA)
1995 - Desarrollo de la capacidad - mito o realidad - del Informe Anual 1994 to 1995 de la Asociación de Recursos de Desarrollo Comunitario (CDRA)
1996 - Shadows - The development sector face to face with itself - from the CDRAs Annual Report 1995 to 1996
1997 - Paradoxes of Power - from CDRA's Annual Report 1996 to 1997
1998 - Crossroads - A Development Reading - from CDRAs Annual Report 1997 to 1998.htm
1999 - Development Practitioners - Artists of the Invisible - From CDRAs Annual Report 1998 to 1999
1999 - Development Practitioners - Artists of the Invisible - From CDRAs Annual Report 1998 to 1999
2000 - The High Road - Practice at the Centre - from CDRAs Annual Report 1999 to 2000
2001 - Measuring Development - Holding Infinity - from CDRAs Annual Report 2000 to 2001
2001 - Talking about stories - from CDRAs Annual Report 2000 to 2001
2002 - A Sabbatical Journey - A Sabbatical Journey - from CDRAs Annual Report 2001 to 2002
2002 - NGOs on the line - from CDRAs Annual Report 2001 to 2002
2003 - Seeking the eye of the needle - from CDRAs Annual Report 2002 to 2003
2003 - Seeking the eye of the needle - from CDRAs Annual Report 2002 to 2003 - Word.doc
2005 - Horizontal Learning - engaging freedoms possibilities -
2005 - Horizontal Learning - engaging freedoms possibilities - from CDRAs Annual report 2004 to 2005 article - non-graphic version
2005 - Horizontal Learning - engaging freedoms possibilities - from CDRAs Annual report 2004 to 2005 article - non-graphic version
AnnualRep/1999 - Development Practitioners - Artists of the Invisible - From CDRAs Annual Report 1998 to 1999.odt
AnnualRep/2003 - CDRAs complete Annual Report 2002 to 2003.pdf
AnnualRep/2003 - Seeking the eye of the needle... - from CDRAs Annual Report 2002 to 2003.odt
AnnualRep/2004 - Emergence From the inside out - from CDRAs Annual Report 2003 to 2004.odt
AnnualRep/2004 - In spiral mode - CDRAs Homeweeks - from CDRAs Annual Report 2003 to 2004.odt
AnnualRep/2005 - Horizontal Learning - graphic.odt
AnnualRep/2005 - Horizontal Learning.odt
AnnualRep/Horizontal learning in CDRAs Home Weeks.odt
AnnualRep/Talking about stories a conversation with a development practitioner.odt
Capacity Building - Shifting the paradigms of practice - by Allan Kaplan
CDRA and Accreditation
Conjuring the Invisible - stories from practice
Conjuring the Invisible - stories from practice
Donors - the challenge to add value - by James Taylor
Emergence From the inside out - from CDRAs Annual Report 2003 to 2004
Evaluation for development - by Allan Kaplan
Experiencing freedoms possibilities - horizontal learning in CDRAs Home Weeks.doc
Exploring Organisational Culture By Sue Soal
Exploring Organisational Culture By Sue Soal
Exploring Organisational Culture By Sue Soal
Facilitating learning & development - CDRAs Approach.htm
How do we know what difference we are making
How do we know what difference we are making?Reflections on measuring development in South Africa - by Sue Soal
In spiral mode - CDRAs Homeweeks - from CDRAs Annual Report 2003 to 2004
Leadership and Management - by Allan Kaplan
Measurement in Developmental Practice From the mundane to the transformational - by James Taylor and Sue Soal
Measurement in Developmental Practice From the mundane to the transformational - by James Taylor and Sue Soal
NGOs as Learning Organisations - by James Taylor
NGOs, Civil Society and Capacity-Building - Towards the Development of Strategy - by Allan Kaplan
So now they are going to measure empowerment
So now they are going to measure empowerment
So now they are going to measure empowerment! - by James Taylor
Talking about stories a conversation with a development practitioner
The Developing Of Capacity
The Developing Of Capacity - by Allan Kaplan
The Developing Of Capacity - by Allan Kaplan
Transformation and Development: A South African Perspective - by James Taylor
Unlearning – facing up to the real challenge of learning - by Doug Reeler
Unlearning – facing up to the real challenge of learning - by Doug Reeler

 

Nuggets

2000 CDRA Nugget - A Good Death - In Search Of Developmental Endings - by Doug Reeler
2001 CDRA Nugget - Establishing Developmental Relationships - by James Taylor
2001 CDRA Nugget - Making the learning organisation literal - CDRA’s homeweek - by Sue Soal
2001 CDRA Nugget - Making the learning organisation literal - CDRA’s homeweek - by Sue Soal
2001 CDRA Nugget - Making the learning organisation literal - CDRA’s homeweek - by Sue Soal
2001 CDRA Nugget - Mindfulness and Sacred Space in our lives - by Dirk Marais
2001 CDRA NuggetIs participation one of those concepts used for manipulative purposes? - by Nomvula Dlamini
2002 CDRA Nugget - Freedom and constraint - Introducing the concept of archetype - by Allan Kaplan
2002 CDRA Nugget - Questionable experiences in Cambodia - by Enda Moclair and Pauline Fopma
2002 CDRA Nugget - The Poverty Of Partnerships - by James Taylor
2003 CDRA Nugget - If you meet the White Rabbit on the road, steal his watch! - by Doug Reeler - Web file
2003 CDRA Nugget - If you meet the White Rabbit on the road, steal his watch! - by Doug Reeler - Word Doc
2003 CDRA Nugget - Listening at 3 Levels - Web file
2004 CDRA Nugget - Storytelling - getting to the heart of things by Doug Reeler - March 2004 Nugget - Web file
2004 CDRA Nugget - Storytelling - getting to the heart of things by Doug Reeler - Word Doc
2004 CDRA Nuggets - Jazzing up the ancient art of conversation through dialogue - by Desiree Paulse
2004 CDRA Nuggets - Jazzing up the ancient art of conversation through dialogue - by Desiree Paulse
2005 CDRA Nugget - Who asked you anyway - Some Feedback on Feedback by Sue Soal

Bookshop

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Creativity

CDRA photo essay

 

Poems

Anton Chekov - Letter to Suvorin
Ben Okri - Mental Fight
Ben Okri - Poems from an African Elegy
Ben Okri - To an english friend in Africa
Christopher Fry - from "The Sleep of Prisoners"
Elsbeth E - A little town at a time
Goethe -The holy longing
Jeremy Cronin - End Of The Century
Mary Oliver - The Journey
Oriah, Mountain Dreamer - The Invitation
Rainer Maria Rilke - Just as the winged energy of delight
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Man Watching
Rumi - Answers from the Elements
Stories, poems, art, photos
William Murray - Until one is committed

 

Stories

Arundhati Roy - The Kathakali Man
CDRA photo essay
Parachuting cats into Borneo - doc file
Parachuting Cats into Borneo - htm file
Rafting by Tony Watkins
Stories, poems, art, photos
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono - doc file
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono - htm file

About CDRA

CDRA's Mission Statement 

Origins and achievements

Developing Partnerships and Learning

Creating the Centre for Developmental Practice

Staff photos and Board Members

Links to interesting websites

 

How to Contact CDRA