Meeting at CPCD in BH

Didier and Stan (from PwC) and Flavia (from CPCD) are now in Belo Horizonte at the CPCD offices discussing the sustainable development platform. We're gathering facts, asking questions, and as you might imagine, enjoying the experience as well. You in the TP crowd would appreciate the "functional analysis" approach at work. The work is designed to obtain a SWOT analysis of the CPCD operations. Some of the broad issues identified are platform multiplication in other regions, succession planning, fundraising, impact measurement (via some as yet undefined index of potential for development), etc. It's early days and we're just scratching the surface.

CPCD designed a wholistic, platform approach to a complete education where both instructors and students collectively agree in a circle (i.e., a check-in) the learning goals/tools, then throughout the day, work to achieve the agreed goals. The education might occur at any time (educators travel and carry materiasl with them in a shoulder bag) anywhere, in a school, or more likely out in the field, or at home, or under a mango tree (there are many mango trees here in Minas Gerais). The younger students develop skills math, language, personal hygiene, while older students learn about dispute resolution, alternatives to work in sugar cane fields, and develop skills in the cooperatives that sell the hand crafts, art, and sculptures.