World Views
Scenario
You work for Agua Sin Fronteras (ASF, or “Water Without Borders”), an international nonprofit. ASF works to
provide access to clean drinking water, improve sanitation, and deliver health education programs. Globally,
children living in urban poverty have little control over their water sources. The United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) awarded funding to ASF to work on solving this problem. ASF plans to use this money to expand its
efforts into new countries.
Your supervisor, Sue Edge, asked you to be on a committee that recommends countries for ASF’s programs.
These programs include the following:
Building wells
Installing water purification systems
Creating educational materials about water health
Directions
Committee Brief
As a committee member, you will investigate the social, political, and cultural situations of another country and
report what you learn to the group.
Choose a country to research.
Choose a country that you are not familiar with and would like to learn more about.
Note: For this project, you should assume that ASF’s worldview is the same as your own. For this reason, you
must investigate a country that’s different from your own.
Research your chosen country.
Use the Country Analysis Questions document to help you research your chosen country’s social, political, and
cultural situations.
If you would like to, you can do some of your own research beyond the country profiles information provided in
the Supporting Materials section. Remember to use authoritative sources and cite them in your work.
Explore how ASF could conduct operations in your selected country.
The committee wants you to present your findings in a committee brief. Remember to assume that ASF’s
worldview is the same as your own and base your responses on that. In your committee brief, include the
following information:
The name of your selected country
A summary of the country’s geography, government, health, education, culture, economy, and history
A discussion of how you think various groups in your selected country would perceive ASF’s work:
What potential sources of conflict do you expect? Brainstorm and describe at least three.
How do people in your own country interact in groups and at work? How does this compare to your selected
country?
Propose at least three actionable solutions to address potential conflict and foster collaboration. Consider the
following question:
If ASF started working in the country that you chose, what recommendations would you make to support
collaboration and avoid conflict between differing worldviews?
Sample Solution
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