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What a Ward Coordinator Should Be Measured On, Every Week
Most Kenyan campaigns appoint ward coordinators and then measure them on nothing. Here are five numbers that make the role real, and why weekly is the only frequency that works.
Fred Matiang'i's Ward-Based Campaign, and How to Check If It's Real
Matiang'i says his campaign will be ward-based and house to house. That is the right claim to make. It is also a claim with a specific, checkable meaning.
Keeping a Campaign Team Together Through the Quiet Months
Campaigns do not lose their teams in the noisy weeks. They lose them in the long stretch when nothing is happening, nobody is asked to do anything, and drifting away costs nothing.
How to Appoint a Ward Coordinator, and What to Agree First
Most ward coordinators in Kenya are appointed in a five-minute conversation and given no terms at all. The appointment is where the role is either made real or reduced to a title.
The First Forty-Eight Hours After Somebody Offers to Help
A volunteer contacted on day two and the same volunteer contacted in week three are two different people. Here is the sequence for the two days that decide which one you get.