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Practical Steps Towards Participatory PMEL
Once you’ve designed your PMEL framework and strategy, and decided to centre participatory philosophies and approaches, what’s next? How can you bring that work to life in meaningful ways? How can you translate a concept that sounds simple, into a deep-rooted practice that starts at the individual level, and works up to affect how your…
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How to: Strategy Objective-Setting
Use this flowchart to help you, in partnership with a wide group of people, set objectives together and validate them.
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Challenges of Seeding Space
Shifting power requires creating space for marginalized voices to lead, addressing entrenched dynamics, facilitating open communication, and embracing humility. It’s essential for fostering equitable practices within teams.
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Co-Designing and Equitable Partnerships
Creating spaces where all voices are valued requires intentionality and structured approaches. In codesigning, you’re not only making decisions together but doing so in ways that integrate diverse perspectives and knowledge systems. Human-Centred Design (HCD) and Design Thinking (DT) offer practical tools for co-design, encouraging empathy, inclusivity, and shared decision-making. Here’s how you can apply…
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How to: Powercube Analysis
Stephen Lukes’ Powercube helps identify power levels, institutions, and policies affecting work at global, national, and local levels.
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How to do Causal Mapping
This guide offers a causal mapping exercise to identify connections between root, immediate, and secondary problems and their causes. It uses a tree structure to address problems and their causes, aiding in strategy design.
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Guide: The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
Use this guide to the four stages of psychological safety, based on Tim R. Clark’s book, to help identify where you fit. It’s useful in group meetings – including training – to identify the types of inclusion and safety that your organisation and team facilitates. Last week, I shared some more information about what each…
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The Role of Psychological Safety in the Workplace
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety framework emphasises the importance of creating safe and inclusive work environments where individuals feel accepted, empowered to learn, contribute, and challenge. It advocates for fostering a culture of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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Choosing the Right Indicators
When measuring project impact, clear indicators are crucial. Design multipurpose indicators, link them to objectives, and use SMART/SPICED types effectively.
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Resource: Inclusive Design Toolkit
Sally Madsen designed this great toolkit that can help anyone designing projects, workshops, events, etc and want to make them more inclusive. It starts with an overview of some different types of identities, what the role of positionality and power plays in design, and finally shares the toolkit itself. If you are interested in this…
