Stairs Diagram

Self Assessment and the Self Assessment Framework helps a Community to assess where it sits on the Practises which help a community to move towards AIDS Competence.

The River Diagram

The diagram on the left is explained in full on the River Diagram page. It shows the results of the Mae Chan Self Assessment (the green line) and the range of scores contained in the Self Assessment of neighbouring communities (the blue river)

Mae Chan has decided that it is going to concentrate on improving its performance in 3 practise. For the first practise (Acknowledgement), Mae Chan assessed itself at Level 2 and has decided it want to go to Level 3 ). For the seventh practise (Adapting), it is at Level and wants to move Level 4. And for the ninth practise (Mobilising Resources), it is currently at Level 0 and wants to move to Level 4.

The River Diagram shows that there are neighbouring communities which can help Mae Chan to reach its ambitions. For Practise 1(Acknowledgement) there are neighbours who are already at Level 4. For Practise 7, at least one community has already reached their target Level 4. And for Practise 9 (Mobilising Resources) while no community has reached their target Level 4, there are communities that can help them to move from their current Level 0.

But who are the communities who can help them? The Stairs Diagram tells them where to go for help.

The Stairs Diagram

The horizontal axis shows the gap between where a community is now and where it wants to be.

The vertical axis shows the current level of the community.

So for the Practice of Inclusion, Moroto is currently at Level 1 and the gap between where it is and where it wants to be is 3 Levels. So it wants to be at Level 4.

The community of Mbarara currently assesses itself as being at Level 5 for Inclusion.

So it seems reasonable that Moroto has something to learn from Mbarara. And that Mbarara has something to share with Moroto.

The Stairs Diagram is a matchmaker for productive conversations.