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Village knowledge centre toolkit
This stage is crucial, as a VKC will only be progressed by the supporting agency if there is clear support and welcome from the local community. The agency must first establish good personal relations with the villagers, who must also show a willingness to work with them. Then the agency can start to collect information about the village: its various communities and their structures, traditional information flows, existing resources and needs of different groups within the community. This is a long process of consultation and discussion between the agency and the village. It commonly takes two to three months and has taken nearly a year for one village.
Image © MSSRF 2006 Image © Julian Swindell 2006