Name | Description | References |
Participatory Approaches: A facilitator’s guide | This book provides a set of guidelines for people who will be involved in participatory processes to answers questions such as: what level of participation is appropriate, what problems exist, tips for facilitation participatory approaches. It provides a framework (divided in to: Principles, Methods and Tools) for common understanding, advice on good facilitation, and a set of tools and activities that may help to facilitate dialogue, identify blocks and reveal appropriate development initiatives | http://community.eldis.org/.59c6ec19/VSO_Facilitator_Guide_to_Participatory_Approaches_Principles.pdf |
Reflect Action tool box | Guidance on how to use a set of participatory tools (calendars, matrices, rivers, trees, theatre, roleplay, song, dance, video, television). | http://www.reflect-action.org/how |
Embracing participation in development | Worldwide experience from CARE’s Reproductive Health Programs with a step-by-step field guide to participatory tools and techniques. A thorough introduction to the philosophy behind participatory approaches and the caution with which they should be used. Also includes a useful overview of tools and techniques and examples from various countries. | http://www.care.org/careswork/whatwedo/health/downloads/embracing_participitation/embracing_participitation_en.pdf |
Participatory Tools to aid adaptation | A summary table on the weADAPT site by Kathleen Dietrich of Penn State University of some of the many different tools used by practitioners in their work on adaptation. Many of these tools started life in the Development or Disaster Risk reduction fields, but have been being applied to support adaptation also. | http://weadapt.org/knowledgebase/adaptation-decision-making/participatory-tools-to-aid-adaptation |
Participatory Action Research | "Essentially Participatory Action Research (PAR) is research which involves all relevant parties in actively examining together current action (which they experience as problematic) in order to change and improve it. They do this by critically reflecting on the historical, political, cultural, economic, geographic and other contexts which make sense of it. ... Participatory action research is not just research which is hoped that will be followed by action. It is action which is researched, changed and re-researched, within the research process by participants. Nor is it simply an exotic variant of consultation. Instead, it aims to be active co-research, by and for those to be helped. Nor can it be used by one group of people to get another group of people to do what is thought best for them - whether that is to implement a central policy or an organisational or service change. Instead it tries to be a genuinely democratic or non-coercive process whereby those to be helped, determine the purposes and outcomes of their own inquiry." - Wadsworth, Yolanda. 1998. What is Participatory Action Research? Action Research International, Paper 2. | Lessons learned from a PAR approach for community Forestry in the Philippines. http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-103666-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html |
Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Annex for Methodological Toolkit for Local Assessments | This toolkit describes a practical methodology for developing and facilitating indigenous local assessments under the framework of the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA), providing tools, methods and practical examples to support their local implementation. Since the context in which local assessments are undertaken across different regions of the world, vary considerably, this guide aims to provide a general methodological framework that is applicable to all local assessments without generalising differences, enabling reults to be synthesised and appropriate strategic responses made within each given context. | http://ipcca.info/blog/2011/12/23/firstedition-of-the-ipcca-methodologicaltoolkit/ |
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