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  1. Born as a Shared dream To design a shared dream, it might be important to assess collectively a community’s needs and resources, since the project can arise from the need to answer a common problem and/or from the possibility to take advantage of an opportunity. In the case of the community school project, for example, […]
  2. To make sure that the shared dream is clear, the community can articulate a deliverable for this stage of the project, focusing on “what is the project about?” and “why is it important?”.  In this video, professor Lavagnon explains why it is important to make clear the underlying reasons for the project. In this video, […]
  3. b) From an Individual to a Collective dream It is also possible that, before the community gathering, someone might already have an individual dream for the community. In this video, Paulo César, coordinator of the Tempo de Plantar movement, explains how he shared his individual dream to launch the Planting Day Event project in 2019. […]
  4. The final stage that we can add to the Project Lifecycle is the celebration one. Gathering the community...
  5. Generally considered as the last stage of a project lifecycle, the evaluation...
  6. After the planning stage, the community starts to implement the project. The deliverable...
  7. After delivering the initiation stage, the next stage is to plan how to...
  8. The first step to initiate a project in a community mobilization is to gather the community and...
  9. Because of its temporary nature, a project has a beginning, a middle and an end, and...