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Self positioning in the process of decolonisation
The Reflection Questions are for development practitioners to reflect on their personal positioning on decolonisation and locally-led action.
There is a set of reflection questions for each of the three levels of yielding and wielding power: the individual level, the organisational level, and the systemic level.
The question sets are for individuals to explore, but the greatest impact can be realised when these questions are genuinely engaged with across teams and organisations.
The hardest questions may be at the individual and organisational level; resist the temptation to only engage with the systemic level questions. Engaging in a decolonisation process, and supporting genuinely locally led organisations and processes, requires us all to be courageous and bear the discomforts associated with the process – starting with these self-positioning questions.