Self Reliance Curriculum – One, Two, Three
One Program:
Learning, Planning and Action for Business, Home and Community
The Interweave Self Reliance Program enables participants to start and expand successful businesses, and as families and community groups, to gain capacity to plan, unite and solve shared problems. With the leadership of local trained instructor/coaches, neighborhoods generate economic and social capital to move beyond poverty on a self-sustaining basis.
Two Manuals:
Success! and Neighbors Working Together
Program activities - which include classes, group dialogue, individual business coaching, business start-up and growth, tracking progress of individual participants, and community organization and projects – are organized around a core curriculum. This curriculum consists of two manuals - an instruction guide (Success!) and a discussion/organization guide (Neighbors Working Together).
Success!, which is available in printed and power point formats, provides a framework for organizing class topics/activities and instructional content for individual and home development and especially for teaching practical business basics. Neighbors Working Together is a resource for organizing participants into independent community associations. It presents sample discussion guides on 40+ topics related to community issues in developing countries such as health, sanitation, AIDS, parenting, income, conflict resolution, domestic violence, clean water, human rights, literacy and much more.
Three Components:
6Ps Business Development - Individual Empowerment - Community Action
At the heart of Interweave’s manuals are key principles and practices essential to helping individuals become self-reliant. Only by interweaving the development of business, home and community can true self reliance be achieved.
Participants plan and act together to strengthen each of these life areas. Accordingly, the primary goal of the Self Reliance Program curriculum is to enable participants to create, implement and regularly renew three plans:
- A business/employment plan to grow income. Materials present the 6Ps of business – Plan, product,
- An individual or family plan to improve home life, Quality of life wheel
- A group action plan established with neighbors to solve community problems.