An Animation Refresher Training and Impact Assessment Workshop (12-18 May, 2013) was held in Chitwan Nepal. 18 participants (Male: 7, Female: 11) from 10 districts of 16 different NGOs visited cooperative / youth group and a child club in Chetre-Parbat for impact assessment where a local NGO had been working in animation approach with the support of Caritas Nepal.
Through the experience sharing and field, participants found that animation approach has strengthened ethical values and self-commitment in their social services.
“Animation should be localized at the grassroots level, its usefulness should be widened”- said Mr.Tara Bhandari; a participant form Kapilvastu.
Furthermore, animation has made animators go beyond proposal activities when they are implementing project. It produces more motivation to social mobilizers.
Mr.Prabin Bogati, 24 said that he keeps talking about animation wherever he works. “I can’t stop using animation approach as a cross-cutting issue in projects even in ones funded by INGOs other than Caritas”.
However, due to the dream it invokes for the establishment of just and equitable societies, animation teachings and its approaches has lots of challenges in context of complex Nepali societies.
At the end of the workshop, last participants suggested that regular follow up exchanging new ideas, sharing knowledge and communication would be essential for successful implementation.
Ms. Laxmi Bhattrai, who had an opportunity to take part in Caritas’s animation training, has been constantly working beyond the project for the maximum benefit of beneficiaries. As a chairperson of SEDA Nepal (local NGO in Dailekh), she has been equally contributing her personal time and resources for the resettlement of Internally Displaced People in the post conflict period.
Ms. Chinu Gurung, a young development worker from Lamjung, animated for the upliftment of poor, marginalized and backward Gurung communities in northern Lamjung.She opined that animation approaches, while focusing mainly on the poorest of the poor, should also bring the rich and powerful into the circle so that they can also contribute towards the upliftment of the poor.
