2. RCEs AND THEIR COMPOSITION
An RCE is a group of organizations,
agencies , institutions and associations,
both formal and informal, living and doing
their activities in the same locality/region
that are synergized to provide sustainable
development solutions through formal,
informal and non-formal forms of
education within the same community
and/or region.
3. RCEs AS INNOVATIVE SLANT
They are locally/regionally based
Activities are Locally relevant and culturally
appropriate
Constantly accommodating more partnership
and collaboration with other organizations
trying to accomplish similar goals
Integrating modern technology with local
knowledge and methodologies
Translating theory to practice
Multi stakeholder approach
Melting pot of skills and expertise
6. RCEs AS COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMERS
They provide equitable partnerships between the
combined expertise of communities and
professions, literate and illiterate, formal and
informal,
Provide platform for multi stakeholder dialogue
Provide platform that enable diverse groups to
interact, learn collaboratively, take collective
decisions and act sustainably together.
They collaborate with other RCEs for skills and
knowledge transfer
They reorient methodologies and techniques and
address issues with the environment, economy
and society holistically
8. RCEs INNOVATIVE AND
TRANSFORMATIVE RULES OF
ENGAGEMENT
Who else in the community that can be effective and
successful in the community’s Sustainability realization
mission
What roles are currently unfilled or need to be created and
who might best fill them
When is the right time for them to be brought on board
What potential barriers exist to recruiting these new partners
and what strategies can help overcome those barriers
Engages those who are most affected by the problem in
the locality
Think of who else needs to be engaged in order for the RCE
to be effective and successful.
9. BOLT AND NUT OF
TRANSFORMATION WITHIN THE
RCE AND THE COMMUNITY
Open access policy
Equal opportunity
Sound leadership and democratic operating rules
and governance
Division of labour
Plans, Short and long term
Collective decision making and implementation
Creating a space in communication for personal
difficulties or dissent .
Asking about performance or suggestion from the
community for improvement
10. EXAMPLES OF RCE
TRANFORMATIVE ACTIVITIES
Youth, Culture and poverty
reduction, Biodiversity and
Vocational training
Rural women, energy and climate
change, Traditional Knowledge, waste
reduction and recycling, SCP,, Agriculture
and Pollution control
11. RCEs COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION
ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR
Reduced the level of resistance to innovation within the communities and
their leadership
Condensed poor coordination among the different groups in the community
Revert to the amazing of all history of unproductive synergies and
partnerships in the communities
Exposed the chain reactions of unsustainable actions in the community
Helped the communities to see themselves as a whole more than ever
before.
Increased level of commitment and motivation among the current partners
and the community.
Influenced policies, attracted policy makers attention to a particular society’s
unsustainable problem and in other continent; managed to bring the policy
makers as RCE members taking active role within
Bridging the formal, informal and non-formal approach to problems
Integrating modern and local knowledge
Solved to significant levels community/society’s complex problems that are
influenced by multiple factors
Taking a community to the world and bringing the world back to a
community
12. RCEs CHALLENGES IN THEIR
INNOVATIVE AND
TRANSFORMATION DRIVE
Lack of fund to up scale sustainable project and
program in the communities
Low collaboration and partnership among the RCEs
within and outside their continent of location
Lack of feedback communication among the RCE
stakeholders and partners about their
accomplishments and concerns
Low visibility within the communities and
Trough attention by policy makers, regional and
continental bodies engagement especially in Africa
13. SUSTAINABILITY AND MORE
RCEs not only provide Sustainability solutions
to the communities they live in, but Create in
them:
Hopes
Aspirations
Dreams
Motivations
Momentum
Novelty and inventions
What's more?