Facilitation Guidelines The list of human values on this page has been compiled from workshops conducted around the world – North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In the large group, give the participants a few minutes to compare their list of human values from their country culture, cultural heritage, native traditions, and successful water-related projects to this list and examine how or why their own list might have similar or different expressions of human values. Then ask participants to share what they have written. You can ask people to add human values to this list if they are missing – human values they personally find important in their culture or traditions. Emphasize that the number of positive, human qualities found universally is quite large, and this is a list that represents human values we have found especially applicable and essential to the workplace.
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Use the participant responses to help them see that even when there are differences among our human values expressions, they don’t create strong tensions among people. In fact, just the opposite is true: by having a foundation of human values for our work, we feel a unity that supersedes our differences and can be a platform for resolving disputes harmoniously. Given the often-divisive issues related to water and sanitation, and the need for pro-poor governance, the ability to recognize and draw out common human values is an essential capacity for anyone striving to meet the critical water-related needs of today.