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Regional Approach

In the next two years (2009-2010) FLICT will strengthen its reagional approach. The aim is to improve the coordination of engagement at regional level among the partners and to identify common goals in order to create greater leverage. Therefore FLICT will foster a collective approach of partners and other stakeholders in the regions to identify issues for interventions. Additional dialogue with regional state structures will create recognition of the role of civil society organizations in conflict transformation and greater space for their work.

Moreover the regional approach will allow stronger support through the programme officers. Each of them will be assigned to support partners within one region and develop more indepth knowledge of the region specific needs, chances and challenges. FLICT provides various support services to strengthen the partner organizations work e.g. their understanding of mainstreaming conflict transformation concepts, the identification of priority issues and greater transparency and accountability. Amongst FLICT’s services on-the-job training and facilitation of opportunities for self reflection and learning from each other have proved to be very effective tools, which in the opinion of partners as well as programme officers should be used more intensively. On-the-job training for example can safeguard the transfer of theoretical knowledge into practical work processes and gives the opportunity to focus support on each organization’s specifics.

Regional Approach

Guiding Principles & Values

At an operational level the regional approach will include the following aspects:

  • Assurance of wide participation of key stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, public, business community, state actors) in the process to ensure greater ownership, reliability and external validity.
  • Use of context, conflict and actor mapping as techniques to ensure methodological robustness to identify the most important issue(s) for conflict transformation interventions.
  • Match of the prioritized issues with the FLCT focus areas to identify areas for engagement in the region. Identification of the relevant changes at personal, relational and structural level that should be achieved.
  • Call for proposals working on the issues and in the areas identified by the key actors.


    • The process

    The regional focus adopted by FLCT has three major steps. They will be taken gradually for each region.
    1. Preliminary preparations (e.g. initial communication with all stakeholders, district profiling),
    2. Facilitation of participatory workshops and discussions, and
    3. Follow up stage (e.g. call for proposal, initiation of work, continuous support to the partners and dialogue with stakeholders).

    This process has been recently finalized including proposal calls for Wayamba Province, Uva Province and Northern Province. Further regions will follow.
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