Lucho responds to Jayantha: Some suggestions (HELP! ANY IDEAS?)

Dear Jayantha:
Your question is very important.
I do not really know The Answer to it but I can reflect with you using the elements I have learned from Davies and Dart (a link to the doc is in the blog) and some common sense.

According to these authors (page 11), The kernel of the MSC process is a question along the lines of ‘Looking back over the last month, what do you think was the most significant change in [particular domain of change]?’

My first reflection is that even short times of interaction with the community can have impacts that we could document using SoCs. I would say that if you want to stick to the coir subsector it seems feasible to attempt an exploration of impacts related, for example, to the PMCA. If your team has already held PMCA workshops with coir producers and other market actors you could try to identify changes produced by these workshops. It does not matter if at the end you find no changes... but what if you do? It would be fascinating to understand how the initial PMCA workshops produce changes in the domains of change defined by your team (a discussion on domains of change can be found in the blog http://socmsc.blogspot.com/).

My second reflection is that if you feel that the coir process is still very raw, you can focus on a project that is a bit more advanced. No problem with that. I know that for the AMAP each team selected a subsector to work with but at this point I am more interested in allowing ourselves to learn how to use SoC/MSC than on the subsectoral focus.

Finally, I notice that you use the term 'story' in singular. This could be a language issue but I want to make sure that the concept is fully understood. The plurality of stories is fundamental to this technique. The MSCs are identified through a process of deliberative selection of many SoC at different levels of the organisation.

That is all for now.
Please come back to us with your reflections and thanks a lot for this important contribution.
Hugs,
Lucho

PS:
Barnaby... can you discuss this issues with Jaya when you meet with him please?
Could you please report your reflections to all of us (via email) or directly to the blog (even better)?