1.2 Types of changes to create impact for communities

Building Capacities

• Capacity Change — increases people’s knowledge, skills and access to information
• Access Change— centers people’s voice and contribution, and creates paths for communities to make or participate in their own change
• Institutional Change— develops institutions to support and sustain movements, reforms, policy change, behaviour change and communities

Influencing Individuals and Communities

• Perception Change— contribute to alterations in individual or collective attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, or the way certain groups or issues are represented in public
• Behaviour Change — supports shifts in individual or collective behaviours
• Cultural Change— shifts social practices, values and ways of expression within society

Building Movements

• Relational Change— creates or changes relationships by building or sustaining networks or communities
• Positional Change— shifts power to contribute and make decisions, and opens up access to discourse and resources to disadvantaged groups of communities
• Discourse Change — supports new interaction and dialogue by creating spaces for communication, fostering new and unheard voices, and considering minority views and perspectives.