The ”development” project

The logic The protagonists The stages

The project: the logic

Identify a problem, address and solve it Differences between project and help

To solve the problem in a sustainable way To work together for the same objective

Elements: The problem The objective The strategy and resources necessary to reach it The activities to be carried out The criteria for assessment

The project: the protagonists

People who live the problem (directly and indirectly) People who see the problem and the opportunities: the

local operators People who provide the expertise to address the

issue: NGOs, institutions, businesses, etc. People who make available the financial resources to

tackle the problem: individuals, families, communities, groups, NGOs, businesses, institutions, etc.

The institutions that "wrap around" the lives of these people: governments, religious institutions, family and wider community, etc..

The project: the stages

Analyze needs and identify the problem to be addressed

Set the results to be achieved Develop the strategy to achieve them (activities-

>outputs->objectives) Identify the resources needed Identify verifiable criteria to assess the progress of

activities Carry out the activities Assess the progress of project

The communion

It's one of the objectives of our projects To solve the problem To increase the communion between people

involved It 's a working method for implementing the

project Living the communion between all people involved Addressing each stage of the project in communion

Development in communion

BENEDICT XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 54: The theme of development can be identified with the

inclusion-in-relation of all individuals and peoples within the one community of the human family, built in solidarity on the basis of the fundamental values of justice and peace. This perspective is illuminated in a striking way by the relationship between the Persons of the Trinity within the one divine Substance. The Trinity is absolute unity insofar as the three divine Persons are pure relationality. The reciprocal transparency among the divine Persons is total and the bond between each of them complete, since they constitute a unique and absolute unity.

Development in communion

God desires to incorporate us into this reality of communion as well: “that they may be one even as we are one” (Jn 17:22). ...This also emerges from the common human experiences of love and truth. Just as the sacramental love of spouses unites them spiritually in “one flesh” and makes out of the two a real and relational unity, so in an analogous way truth unites spirits and causes them to think in unison, attracting them as a unity to itself.