Mário Baudouin, Ajuda em ação, on O Ar é de Todos podcast #121

Ajuda em Ação is an NGO based in Spain and active in 22 American, African and European countries. It works to empower local communities by eradicating poverty and promoting social integration. This social and community intervention requires time and space to be present and listen. Sometimes, it's also necessary to "invest in cafés, minis and sharing rind sandwiches and crackling" with the communities. This delicacy is precisely a reflection of the willingness to get to know others and understand their pain so that you can then design projects to alleviate it.

In the second episode of the third season of O Ar é de Todos, Mário Baudouin shares decades of experience from a career dedicated to intervention and discusses the phases of co-constructing social projects.

The first phase, the exploratory, listening and scrutinizing phase (12'36") requires a willingness to get to know the other person and recognize their context. Only then can you move on to designing the project (19'04"). "A good project always needs a good diagnosis". Only then do you move on to implementing projects. And at all stages, you need time (22'27") to intervene and "for change to happen". The "arc" of projects is only completed with the impact and its evaluation (28'50") and, for Mário, the impact is only effective if the transformation brought about continues beyond the implementation of the intervention. In the second episode of the third season of O Ar é de Todos, Mário Baudouin shares decades of experience from a career dedicated to intervention and discusses the stages of co-constructing social projects.

You can listen to this podcast here (in Portuguese).