My Personal Experience as a Rapporteur at the Oxfam Learning and Sharing Event
My Personal Experience as a Rapporteur at the Oxfam Learning and Sharing Event
Rapparteur: Dumisani Malwane
Organisation: Maputaland Development and Information Centre (MDIC)
First time rapparteuring for a conference of this magnitude whereby one interacts with people from different disciplines, backgrounds, organisations and countries is always scarring, intimidative and shocking. In this exercise one has interacted with people who speak the language with accent and excellent diction, people who generate great ideas and articulate them eloquently. In the final analysis it was an honour and privilege to be me who was chosen to take up the rapparteuring job. I am humble by this opportunity offered to me.
On the first day I could not figure out what to take down and what to leave out because all information was so vital. Another challenging part was to listen, synthesize and write and when the debate heated up I simply got lost in action. However, I found it is ease to work with Joseph Francis because we had the opportunity to discuss the structure of his thematic sessions before engaging participants and for the fact that I have worked with him before in the community development agenda.
The second day was bit hectic as I had to attend three sessions facilitated by different facilitators. I found issues emerging from these sessions to be interrelated. It gradually became ease to pick up emerging lessons and trends. For instance listening from what participants are pointing out I realized that there is a shift in the discourse of domination; it has been Poverty then HIV/AIDS now is HIV and Food Security and the Climate Change is now emerging to be a Buzz concept to dominate the centre stage in the development agenda.
Organisation: Maputaland Development and Information Centre (MDIC)
First time rapparteuring for a conference of this magnitude whereby one interacts with people from different disciplines, backgrounds, organisations and countries is always scarring, intimidative and shocking. In this exercise one has interacted with people who speak the language with accent and excellent diction, people who generate great ideas and articulate them eloquently. In the final analysis it was an honour and privilege to be me who was chosen to take up the rapparteuring job. I am humble by this opportunity offered to me.
On the first day I could not figure out what to take down and what to leave out because all information was so vital. Another challenging part was to listen, synthesize and write and when the debate heated up I simply got lost in action. However, I found it is ease to work with Joseph Francis because we had the opportunity to discuss the structure of his thematic sessions before engaging participants and for the fact that I have worked with him before in the community development agenda.
The second day was bit hectic as I had to attend three sessions facilitated by different facilitators. I found issues emerging from these sessions to be interrelated. It gradually became ease to pick up emerging lessons and trends. For instance listening from what participants are pointing out I realized that there is a shift in the discourse of domination; it has been Poverty then HIV/AIDS now is HIV and Food Security and the Climate Change is now emerging to be a Buzz concept to dominate the centre stage in the development agenda.
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