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PRINCIPLES FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE


Making Connections TA has the following characteristics:
  • Advances the site strategy and focuses on results
  • Co-created and demand-driven, with a strong "menu" of options for people to consider
  • Offers a diversity of experiences, skills, backgrounds and perspectives
  • Builds on local capacity
  • Draws on field-based experience
Providing TA also can strategically reinforce key values of the initiative by:

  • Keeping the concept of strengthening families at the center of the discussion
  • Enhancing resident leadership and resident voices in decision making
  • Helping people use data to make decisions
  • Addressing issues of race, class, culture, and power
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