GL Staff Stories – Reflecting on the 16 days of activism

Gender Links (GL) as an institution appreciates that learning is both an active and reflective process. Knowledge creation and learning in GL is anchored on a nexus of experiences (action) and thought (reflection). Reflection allows for critical enquiry, problem-solving, appraisal, isolating trends and creating meaning.

On the eve of the beginning of the 2011 Annual Sixteen Days of Activism Campaign, GL CEO Colleen Lowe Morna, on a trip in Zambia proposed that GL runs “a diary series for the Sixteen Days and COP 17 – daily observations about these campaigns that have a more personal touch”. She called on the staff and consultants to contribute to the series. The great thing about the diaries is that they are just personal thoughts as might normally be written in a personal diary. In addition to being an opportunity to reflect on daily activities, the diary series make distinctive contribution plus add to GL’s knowledge and learning database.

Read the diary series below.

Download : GL Staff diaries compendium