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OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2012 // ISSUE 6 [email protected] Prog A NEWS UPDATE FROM THE PROGRAMME RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT IHQ International Schools Services 1 International Howard Dalziel School Services Added value INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS COORDINATOR AND HOSPITAL PROJECT LEADER 2 Communications Books – the latest must-have gadgets 7 Programme Resources Added value Capacity Building – An Urgent Priority he Salvation Army’s mission their lives as an example to students. is often summarised as ‘saving However, teachers cannot do it alone, and 4 Photo pages souls, growing saints and close relationships with corps officers, Projects from around serving suffering humanity’. local officers, Salvationists and community the world In order to best live out this members is invaluable. Tcalling, Salvation Army schools are often I saw a number of these schools on a 6 International Projects and placed in neglected and isolated areas, recent visit to Indonesia, where children Development Services serving minorities (who are working hard from disadvantaged backgrounds – both and International to fight discrimination and economic Muslim and Christian – receive an Emergency Services disadvantage) and educating young people education that ‘adds value’ through the An Army without borders who would otherwise be ignored by the dedication of staff and the local corps state. working together. Both worked to ensure 8 International In the United Kingdom teachers are that children learn in an environment Health Services assessed by their ability to demonstrate where relationships are fundamental to 130 Years of The ‘added value’. The aim is to show that spiritual, social and physical development. Salvation Army in India because of the quality of teaching received CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 44 a child has achieved beyond their academic potential. In well-resourced schools, with Children studying in a Salvation Army school in Indonesia experienced staff and supportive parents, 44 this is relatively easy but this is rarely the environment in which The Salvation Army operates. When working in an increasingly competitive ‘marketplace’ for education, Salvation Army schools must keep pace academically with the well-resourced schools in more affluent areas. We therefore have to draw on other strengths and resources to add value through our schools. We do this by continually emphasising the importance of relationships. As a Christian church first and foremost, we do not see added value as something purely academic. We endeavour to add value to our students spiritually, physically, socially and academically, providing a framework for each of these areas to be nurtured. Such a framework can be strengthened by Christian teachers who see teaching as a vocation and live 1 33CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 We need to ensure children leave school ‘We need to ensure children best resources is a continuous challenge equipped to fulfil their potential and make and one we will examine further in the next a meaningful contribution to their family leave school equipped to fulfil issue of Progress. and community so that these results will their potential’ last a lifetime. Many faithful soldiers and officers have been educated in Salvation staff, computers and games equipment Army schools in Indonesia. What better are provided by parents, community, NOTE: evidence is there of added value, than a government, corps or external donors. If you have experience in ‘adding lifetime of commitment and service? Each contribution, depending on its source, value’ to schools – especially Salvation A framework founded on Christian shapes the operation and character of Army schools – please write to principles is essential, but every framework the school, bringing both challenges and [email protected] We are keen to learn about the best needs reinforcement to stay strong. opportunities. Maintaining the ethos of practice around the world. Practical needs including desks, books, The Salvation Army whilst accessing the Communications daily devotion book, Words of Life since bringing the editorial process back to IHQ Books – the latest after some 45 years of its production by Hodder and Stoughton. This international must-have gadgets… title – the author, Beverly Ivany, writes in Canada, the production is UK-based and then distribution goes worldwide – is Paul Mortlock a truly fascinating book and well worth BOOK PRODUCTION SPECIALIST subscribing to! For any budding Salvation Army authors, the process begins with submitting oman philosopher Cicero publishing on The War Cry back in the manuscripts to their local territorial said: ‘A room without books late 1970s, but not the desire to produce editorial/literary department. When a is like a body without a soul.’ meaningful, quality publications that manuscript arrives at IHQ and is approved If this is true, my soul must contain a clear and unequivocal message. for publication by the International Literary be more than well fed due Aiming to publish around eight Council, it finds its way onto my desk Rto the numerous volumes that surround titles a year, Salvation Books – the IHQ where I progress it through the publishing me – both on my desk at International publishing imprint – has in the past process, including editing, typesetting, Headquarters (IHQ) and in my home. 12 months produced books by former proofreading, design and printing. Since the inception of The Christian Generals (English editions of Wahlström IHQ Salvation Books titles are on Mission in 1865 right through to the and Wickberg’s biographies), books that sale through Army trade and supplies present-day Salvation Army, all manner of challenge –Robert Street’s Love, Right at departments as well as some Christian publications – but especially books – have the Heart and Janet Munn and Stephen bookshops or online at Amazon. The been the major means of communicating Court’s Army on its Knees – as well as a International Literature Programme at with Salvationists and non-Christians alike. compilation of sermons by women officers, IHQ makes books accessible to grant-aided In early 2011 I was appointed as Book two titles on leadership and selected territories which can apply to translate into Production Specialist at IHQ. Many things writings representing the preaching and local languages or receive copies through had changed at 101 Queen Victoria Street teaching of Helen Clifton. special funding arrangements. since I was schooled in journalism and New works currently in preparation Our perception of traditional book include a meticulously researched publishing (ink on paper) is increasingly biography of William Booth by Salvationist being challenged by the myriad historian Gordon Taylor, the story of the opportunities offered by technology. A Army in Germany during the Third number of IHQ titles are already available Reich years, and an as Kindle editions and we are investigating all-encompassing ways to utilise e-books and other teaching resource for technologies as a means of reaching a wider Salvationists which audience. – in keeping with the Matthew Lynn, founder of e-publisher International Vision Endeavour Press, was quoted in London Plan – is appropriately morning newspaper Metro on 24 entitled One Army! September as saying, ‘What makes books is A particularly exciting the words.’ I believe that books – whatever development has been their format – will remain one of the most the publication of the important means of resourcing the Army’s first edition of the Army’s mission and delivering the gospel message. 2 Programme Resources Commissioner Gerrit Marseille INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY FOR PROGRAMME RESOURCES Capacity Building – An Urgent Priority or a number of years there has 3. Organisational development been a focus in the development 4. Policy and institutional development Capacity development world on the work of Non- 5. Multi-actor processes and systems has been defined as … Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Some think they In many territories we are already doing ● The ability [of an organisation] to Fare ‘the best’ at solving problems in the ‘capacity building’ in a number of ways. For function as a resilient, strategic and developing world. Others see them as an example, through workshops and seminars autonomous entity (Kaplan, 1999) indispensable supplement to governmental which bring people together to reflect on ● The ability of people, organizations services. their area of work, including the training and society as a whole to manage Whatever the case, in recent years of young children in faith matters, effective their affairs successfully NGOs have been required to do more and methods of community development work, (OECD, 2006) become more proficient in their work. This finance training, faith-based facilitation will require NGOs to have the capacity to and integrated mission approaches. ● The ability of a human system to lift the weight of their task and, therefore, Because organisations are made up of perform, sustain itself and self-renew they need to work towards developing people, our efforts in capacity building (Ubels et al, Earthscan/SNV, 2010) organisational ‘muscle’. The challenge for first have to deal with the abilities of an NGO is to plan strategically and assess those working with us. However, the individual needs for training and capacity organisation itself, in its ways of working focused on growth in territories, regions building. As part of the wider civil society and communicating, has a capacity that and commands around the world. We hope The

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