The South Africa Reflect Network is popularly known as SARN aims to strengthen the lives of the poor and excluded people and encourage them to become vibrant and vocal members of civil society by building a critical mass of civil society organisations effectively practising Reflect and sharing learning and strengthening quality implementation of Reflect programmes in action. By creating a structured and well resourced representative network of Reflect practitioners, participants and advocates, SARN has a key role to play in contributing to the realisation of the rights of the poor and vulnerable people, and of women in particular. What is Reflect? One of the most exciting innovations in adult literacy over the last 15 years has been the development and spread of the Reflect approach. Reflect is an innovative, structured approach to adult learning and social change that fuses the theories of Paulo Freire with participatory methodologies developed for Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Freire was a Brazilian educator who radicalised a generation of literacy workers in the 1960s and 1970s by linking literacy to social change. He promoted 'conscientisation' - the process of learning to perceive social, political and economic contradictions and take action by deconstructing contradictions and negotiating more equally conditions. PRA is used in the development field to engage with communities in a participatory way and learn from them in terms of their realities.