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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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Toolkit: Project Cycle Decision Gates
The project involves implementation, analysis, and reflection, guided by decision gates and MEALDPro principles, ensuring donor-friendly communication.
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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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Tool: Activist Self-Care
Before you start – no, sadly this is not a toolkit that will help activists to recharge or get their well-earned rest. It is however, the start of a conversation. This is purely for those moments of overwhelm that happen in our daily lives – conversations with colleagues, a news story, frustrating progress made in…
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Template: Rich Pictures
A template for a ‘rich pictures’ style mapping of your situation, with space for your additions.
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Checklist: Locating a Project in History and Its Context
Use this rubric to self-evaluate where a project sits in its context. These are guided self-reflection questions that can help implementers and a community identify the roles of power and participation in a project.
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Template: River of Life
Use this template for the River of Life to help you plan and map a project. It’s a great tool combined with the Most Significant Change approach to help any group tell a story about important moments in time, your context, your project, and your life.
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Tool: Monitoring Tree
A creative and fun way to track your project, from its roots and underlying causes to the immediate results and intermediate outcomes.
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Template: Learning Plan
Use this learning plan to help think through the foundations of your framework, agenda, strategy, or learning plan.
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Template: Evaluation Terms of Reference
Use this template to help build a strong ToR for an external consultant. It contains most components you would normally need, and the basics are here.
