Vision, Commitment and Action.
The first step of change is to believe that it can be otherwise: fromI Can’ttoI CantoWe Can. This mindset change is central to our self-developed Vision, Commitment and Action (VCA) method.
Mentality change.
The heart of all the work The Hunger Project does is to train groups of people for mentality change. The first step is to dream that life could look different. If people believe they can do otherwise, they can take action to improve their lives.
VCA workshops.
In VCA workshops, participants from Vision to Commitment go to Action. We challenge people to shape their vision of a better future. They make concrete and feasible plans to realize those dreams. And carry out these plans yourself, with local resources and support from The Hunger Project.
The VCA method has once started in Bangladesh, and has now been applied and improved in tens of thousands of villages in many countries. In total, more than 2 million people followed a VCA workshop, from Mexico to Mozambique.
Hardware and software.
“We often say that a project’s “software” is just as important as the “hardware.” I work daily with people who have lost faith that something can change. The VCA workshop is about the software, about changing this mindset. It helps people to develop a vision and to look at how they can deliver it, together as a community and as an individual. And so stand up local leaders, who believe that they themselves can make a difference and that they are on the move. Sometimes, combined with access to knowledge and access to resources, this is enough to defeat poverty.”
Grace Chikowe, Country Director The Hunger Project Malawi
Map the VCA method.
In a close collaboration between Hunger Project trainers from all our programme countriesWe have developed our training methodology into a VCA manual. So that other organizations working onchange from bottom to inside, use this training method.
The VCA Manual was developed in cooperation with theHer Choice alliance, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
