“Write up your reflections on the online Negotiation and Brokering Activity in which you participated, by responding to the following questions. 1. What was your role in your stakeholder group for this activity? 2. What were the main negotiation challenges for you personally in this activity? 3. What were the main negotiation challenges within your stakeholder group in the SGF? 4. What were the main negotiation challenges for your stakeholder group in relation to the other stakeholder groups in the TGF? 5. What do you think your stakeholder group managed to achieve? 6. What do you think made this achievement possible? 7. What would you do differently another time ?”

1 – My role the first week was to provide a Summary from Kerala Video 3 (micro finance) to help the other stakeholders in the self help group understand the background to and the key challenges that they might face with respect to contributing to the reduction of obesity and heart disease.

In the second week my role was to contribute towards the discussion of what sort of model would be appropriate for solving health problem in Wayanab. On that same week we agreed on the plan and model proposed by one of our member and my role was to review the plan and model to see whether there are other ways of doing it. I made a comment on the provision of buses by advising by saying that, i do agree with the free bus but we have to put a system in place so that it will not be used for other thing, bear in mind the tribal population have other problem.

My main role in the final week was initial…(short extract)