SteppingStones&SteppingStonesPlusanditsnewdaughterprogramme,SteppingStoneswithChildren,arebothnowpublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing-h9p://7nyurl.com/PAPStStwC

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Hereisabriefintroduc7ontotheSteppingStonesmethodology

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Thisdiagramillustratessomeofthemul7pleiden77esthatwecanallhaveas

individuals

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Hereisanotherversionofthissamemodel.In7matePartnerViolence(IPV)is

recognisedbothasincreasingwomen’svulnerabilitytoacquiringHIV:andwomen

whendiagnosedwithHIVcanfaceincreasedIPV.

SteppingStonesisrecognisedtoreduceIPVincommuni7es.

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Thereisnomonopolyonthe“right”wayupamountain.Thisimageshowshowthe

fourpeergroupseachhavetheirownwayupandthatthesedifferentwaysneedto

bemutuallyrespectedbyusall.

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Some people think Stepping Stones has no structure. That is incorrect. There is a clear progressive structure, like a staircase, or like climbing a mountain. There are 5 themes: progression on purpose (from getting to know each other and working together to talking about sensitive subjects, addressing one�s own behaviour and reflecting on ways to change). Stepping Stones was breaking barriers because of its development of critical literacy & routes to address gender norms + its framework for analysis of what is going on in our lives: it is developing participants’ critical literacy skills ie the ability to step outside, reflect on and evaluate their own and others’ lives & on power relationships between themselves and others around them. [Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. Accordingly, songs, novels, conversations, pictures, movies, etc. are all considered texts.]

Herearesomekey‘founda7onstones’oftheSteppingStonesapproach.TheyarenotuniquetoSteppingStonesbutiftheyarenotpresentwithoutstrongreasons(egavailabilityofonlytwopeergroups)thentheprogrammeisnotSteppingStones.

Theapproachofself-reflec7veexperien7allearningiskey.Thisiswhysomepeople

thinkthereisnostructure.Thereisastructure,butitisnotspeltoutexplicitly.Instead,par7cipantshavetoworkoutwhattheyarelearningfarmorefor

themselves.Thisprocessofdeepreflec7onconnectstomuchdeeperprocessesof

learningandchangewithinusthanmoretradi7onalIECmaterials.

Thecoreprogrammeisdesignedtotakeplaceover18sessionswithabout50hourscontact;me.Thereare5addi;onalop;onalsessions.

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Theprocessofpeergroupsworkinginsafeseparateparallelpeergroupsandthen

comingtogethertoshareandcomparewhattheyhavelearnteveryfewsessionsis

whatwecall“fissionandfusion”.Hereisanorganogramofthewholeworkshop

process.Inthisway,bridgesareslowlyandcarefullybuiltacrossthecommunity’s

gendersandgenera7ons.

Again,pleasenote,thecoreprogrammeisdesignedtotakeplaceover18sessionswithabout50hourscontact;me.Thereare5addi;onalop;onalsessions.

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Throughthislink,youcanviewseveralfilmsaboutSteppingStonesanditsuseindifferentcontextsinUgandaandMalawi,includingwhathappenedintheoriginal

communitywhereSteppingStoneswasimplemented,12yearslater.TheTanzanian

documentaryisaboutournewSteppingStoneswithChildrenprogramme.

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Thisisadrawingdonebywomenfromtheolderwomen’speergroup16months

a_ertheoriginaltrainingworkshop.Thedrawingsarealltheirs.Thekeywaswri9en

injusta_erwards.Thegreenprintedwri7ng

Highlightsallthedifferentissuesthatthewomenhadmen7oned.Thisshowsthe

mul7pleposi7veoutcomesthatthewomeniden7fiedinthisdrawing,inresponseto

thebasicques7on:“whathaschangedforyouinthiscommunitysincetheSteppingStonesworkshop?”

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Some of the covers of the translations of the original manual… If you want to translate or adapt Stepping Stones please contact us first for guidelines and support on how to do this properly.

Theprogrammehassincegoneglobaltoover100countries.Adaptedandtranslated

intoatleast30languages,itreducedin7matepartnerviolence(orIPV)inanRCT

conductedbytheSouthAfricanMedicalResearchCouncil.TheWhatWorksfor

WomenwebsitegradesitasGrayIIevidencelevelforeffec7veness,bothin

addressingviolenceagainstwomenandtransforminggendernorms.Womenin

countriesincludingMalawi,India(whereithasalsoendedchildmarriagein

communi7eswhereit’sbeenused)andtheGambia.havethemselvesreportedIPVreduc7on,inresponsetobeingasked“whathaschangedforyou?”.

Jewkesetal2008ImpactofSteppingStonesonincidenceofHIVandHSV-2andsexualbehaviourinruralSouthAfrica:clusterrandomisedcontrolledtrialBMJ2008;337h9p://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a506h9p://www.whatworksforwomen.org/search?uh8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Stepping

+Stones%22

h9p://pag.aids2014.org/flash.aspx?pid=1806

(egCOWLHA/SalamanderTrust2013;Bradleyetal2011,Paineetal2002).

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Otherrecentadapta7onsbySalamanderTrust:a)forpastoralistsinrela7ontosexual

violenceinfragilecommuni7es.PublishedbySalamanderTrustandStrategiesfor

Hope,inpartnershipwithNetworkforSteppingStonesApproaches,Uganda.

b)SteppingStoneswithChildrenandtheirCaregiversfor5-8s,9-14sandtheircaregivers.PublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing.Createdinpartnershipwith

PASADA,DaresSalaam,Tanzania.

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Wewelcomeadapta7onsofthisprogramme,providedyoucontactusforguidelines

andsupportandprovidedthebasicfounda7onstoneshighlightedherearefully

observed.

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Formoreinforma7onaboutevalua7onsoftheprogramme,seethe

www.steppingstonesfeedback.orgwebsite

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Formoreinforma7onseethewww.steppingstonesfeedback.orgwebsite.

Formoreinforma7onaboutSteppingStoneswithChildren,alsopublishedbyPrac7calAc7onPublishing,seeourwebsiteandh9p://7nyurl.com/PAPStStwC

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