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The money trail: measuring your impact on the local economy using LM3
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This is a workbook designed for people concerned about the local economy and who want to measure how different parts of the economy are working. This workbook describes LM3 measuring tool that has been tried and tested in various sectors across the UK. This workbook is a manual of how to use the tool, and is structured around four key sections: the money trail; a how-to-guide for using LM3; troubleshooting and finally taking action. The workbook concludes with some appendixes about flowcharts, surveys and data management.
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New Economics Foundation
The Source from which rivers flow: organising for local governance, poverty reduction and development
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This book is about how to strengthen communitiesÆ organising skills, confidence, creativity and relationships. It is designed for citizens and local leaders who are active in local development, but could also be useful to urban residents, councillors and agencies working with communities. It was produced through the community publishing process in Zimbabwe, and was enriched with ideas and examples from citizens and local leaders involved in a pilot programme in Gokwe North, Umzingwane and Maboto called Strengthening Citizen Participation in Local Governance. The book is based on participatory methods and provides question for the reader to reflect on. Although it can be read individually the bok is designed to be read by small groups in study circles, using methods described in the guide. The authors recommend it be used with two other books by ACPD (Africa Community Publishing and Development Trust) called Local Governance and Participation and Peace-building which have important chapters on communication and conflict resolution. The book is divided into ten sections focusing on teamwork; shared leadership; meeting for a purpose; research and writing; choosing priorities and analysing problems; decision making; planning; community participation in financial management; supervising, monitoring and evaluation; and co-ordination, negotiation and advocacy. The book also has a guide for facilitators giving tips on how to involve all participants in the group discussions. A very brief bibliography of associated literature is also included.
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ACPD
Managing for impact in rural development: a guide for project M and E
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This guide is about using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to improve the impact of IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)-supported projects working with rural poverty alleviation and rural development. The focus is on a learning approach to M&E that uses achievements and problems for better decision-making and accountability. It requires creating an M&E system that helps primary stakeholders, implementing partners and project staff learn together in order to improve their development interventions on a continual basis. Because the ultimate objective is to ensure the maximum possible benefit for the rural poor, they are the ones best placed to assess project impact. The Guide suggests ideas for implementing this and other forms of participatory M&E. It includes the following set of booklets with sections going through the steps of M&E: introducing the M&E guide; using M&E to manage for impact; linking project design, annual planning and M&E; setting up the M&E system; deciding what to monitor and evaluate; gathering, managing and communicating information; putting in place the necessary capacities and conditions; and reflecting critically to improve action. The guide kit also includes five annexes with a glossary of M&E concepts and terms; an annotated example of a project logframe matrix and logframe explanation; an annotated example of an M&E matrix; methods for monitoring and evaluation; and sample job descriptions and terms of reference for key M&E tasks.
Publisher
IFAD
Participatory workshops: a sourcebook of 21 sets of ideas and activities
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Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Plugging the leaks: making the most of every pound that enters your local economy
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This handbook is a guide for ordinary people to understand what is going on in their local economy so that they can be involved in decision-making. The handbook is responding to a need of residents involved in local decision-making to feel comfortable about decisions relating to the local economy. Based on work with communities in the UK, the handbook addresses local involvement in community economic decisions and looks at how local businesses can link to outside investment or strong skill bases that can benefit the wider community. The handbook is divided into four main sections: introduction; theory: understanding the local economy; preparing: a step-by-step guide to plugging the leaks; and action: co-ordinating the program, information gathering, raising awareness and ready to go. The handbook concludes with detailed appendixes about the case studies as well as some worksheets, surveys and ideas.
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New Economics Foundation
A new weave of power, people and politics: the action guide for advocacy and citizen participation
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This guide aims to enable activists, trainers and other involved in development and democracy to promote citizen participation and to democratize decision-making. Drawing on experiences of NGOs from numerous countries, the document contains concepts, tools and step-by-step processes aimed at promoting citizen advocacy. It aims to help activists, practitioners and planners to work with civil society in a way that promotes political change, develops solutions to development problems and policies, creates strong and lasting links and transforms power relations, including gender dynamics.
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World Neighbors
Creating better cities with children and youth: a manual for participation
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UNESCO Publishing and Earthscan Publications
Participatory Training: a book of readings
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This is a resource book created for front-line workers of development organisations. It focuses on various themes of participatory training methodology and is intended to serve as a useful resource for practitioners running workshops and also for training trainers in these methodologies. It is adapted from PRIA's manual for participatory training methodology, with an aim to simplify the content and tailor if for front-line workers.
Participatory workshops: a sourcebook of 21 sets of ideas and activities
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This book provides 21 sets of participatory ideas and activities for facilitators, trainers, teachers and anyone who organises and manages workshops, courses, classes or other events for sharing and learning, and in particular for people wishing to approach this in a lively and interactive fashion. The book is divided into six parts, part 1 begins with a brief overview of the basics, part 2 provides ideas for the beginning, middle and end of a participatory workshop, including ideas for getting started, energizers and ideas for evaluation, part 3 is entitled Messing Up and prepares even the most experienced facilitator for unforeseen eventualities, part 4 provides practical tips for group work, seating arrangements and coping with large numbers, part 5 covers analysis and learning and part 6, behaviour and awareness. There is also a section at the end providing source ideas for trainers and facilitators. This book is designed to make sharing, learning and teaching more participatory, enjoyable and effective, and can be used in a wide range of organisations, for an equally diverse range of reasons.
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Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Particpation: Spice it up!
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This book is aimed at anyone who wishes to consult or involve children and young people in any setting. The first part sets the scene of what this book is about and the definitions and background to participation. The second part outlines the values underpinning the work, of co-operation, participation, inclusion and involvement. It raises issues to consider, such as, why involve children and young people, what the children and young people will get out of it, questions around resource limitations, and who should be involved. It also gives some hints about planning and running a session, and provides a trouble shooting guide to potential problems. The third section gives a toolkit of starting activities, information gathering and promoting discussion exercises, and other examples. The fourth section gives ideas for your own programmes and methods.
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SCF
The art of building facilitation capacities: a training manual
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This manual is designed for trainers and facilitators who have an interest in improving the facilitation skills of field workers in the context of community forestry development. The manual is designed as part of a facilitation training package supported by a training video that helps the trainer bring real life scenes from the field into the classroom. The training sessions described have been effectively used within a wide range of audiences all over Asia, including field workers, extension workers, college teachers and managers. Practical suggestions are given for how to adapt and use the manual for different target groups and contexts. The focus of the manual is on the facilitation of groups and group processes in meetings. The manual is divided into 9 main sections, including preparing for the job; setting the context of the training; participatory decision-making; facilitation fundamentals; core roles of a facilitator; practicing facilitation skills; integrating skillsÆ optional sessions and annexes.|The video lasts for 2 hours and is designed to accompany the training manual. It consists of a series of short film clips that are self-contained and can be watched separately. Each clip shows a sequence of scenes of a facilitator in action or interviewed reflecting on their experiences. The video is divided into 4 main sections: basics, roles, challenges and skills. Within each section, specific issues are addressed such as what is facilitation; role of the facilitator; attitudes and group dynamics; integrating tools into the meeting process; dealing with controversial issues; dealing with dominance and facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings; facilitating reflection and using energisers.
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RECOFTC
Tips for trainers: knives and forks
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This is a step by step explanation of an exercise used to introduce participants to some of the principles of participation. It is especially effective with participants who are in positions of seniority as it highlights the links between empowerment and transparency and sharing.
Publisher
International Institute for Environment and Development
New perspectives, new curricula: a case study of participatory curriculum in forestry education in Vietnam
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This paper aims to share experiences from a programme which focuses on improvement of approaches for teaching and learning at university level, through a novel approach to the development of forestry education in Vietnam.|It first makes some general and theoretical observations on the nature of learning and change in education and training institutions in order to raise some key issues, which may influence the change process in any setting.|It then moves to a specific context, describing the historical background and the setting of the Social Forestry Support Programme. It explains the process of change which has taken place and finally explores some outcomes which will be of interest to others engaged in promoting learning through forestry education and training.