As a researcher or public health professional, your drive is to achieve sustainable solutions for a better health outcome. The use of participatory tools are one of the ways to help educate and organize sustainable action plans with the public

1. Introduction to participatory tools:
The territory game
Dr T.J. Irabor

2. What comes to mind when you see this?

3. Participatory tools are specific activities designed to
encourage joint analysis, learning and action.
Special ‘packaged’ techniques can be very powerful
ways of getting people involved.
Participatory Approaches: A facilitators guide
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4. However, no one tool or technique is applicable to all situations.
Beware of falling into the ‘solution trap’ – believing that a gadget will
fix the problem.
Participatory Approaches: A facilitators guide
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5. Some questions to consider:
Q. What is your
aim or purpose?
Q. Who are your
stakeholders?
Q. What is the
setting?
Q. What
resources do you
have on hand?
Q. What level of
participation do
you think will
work?
Participatory Approaches: A facilitators guide
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6. What comes to mind when you see this?
Man
Animals
Environment (place and space)
Where diseases are found:
• What relationship does the disease
have with the environment?
• Where are animals kept?
• Where do people go to seek health
care?

7. Try to look at the world from a global point of view

8. Importance of maps
Communication tool (environmental exposures and health risks)
Our health-related behaviour varies across geographic settings
Our health outcome is a result of our attributes (socio-economic), where we
stay(geographically), what interacts with us.
Facilities, patients, agriculture (animals as well) interact with each other across
geopolitical borders.
Wang, F. (2020). Why public health needs GIS: a methodological overview.
Annals of GIS, 26(1), 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2019.1702099

9. Territory game
What do you observe?

10. Territory game
To facilitate the participation of
the different actors
To allow them understand the
dynamics of the territory
(systematically)
To encourage their involvement
in collective actions.
Lardon, S. (2013). Construire un projet territorial Le " jeu de
territoire ", un outil de coordination des acteurs locaux. Sciences
Pour l’Action et Le Développement, 38, 1–4.

11. Why use this tool?
Organization (Spatial organization of the territory + neighboring territories),
Position (what it is you’re are studying in the existing dynamics.)
Action (To specify desired development models & make use of them)

12. Research
Educate
Re-Act
Before starting: 3 methodological priniciples
Set a precise and collective
statement of the question that
underlies this intervention.
Knowledge of the territorial actors and
that of the researchers are pooled.
• Reflecting back to the actors the
information that they produce.
• Give them the tools for their own
reasoning and action
Lardon, S. (2013). Construire un projet territorial Le " jeu de territoire ",
un outil de coordination des acteurs locaux. Sciences Pour l’Action et Le
Développement, 38, 1–4.

13. How to use the territory game
A minimum amount of knowledge about the dynamics underway and the
interplay of actors is required.
How do we get this information?
The first type of data is derived from available cartographic and
statistical documents available, complemented by an exploration of
websites.

14. Identify stakeholders :
Primary stakeholders:
Who will ultimately be affected – positively or negatively
Key actors:
Who has political responsibility
Who has the financial resources
Who has the authority
Who has the skills and expertise
Also, gather more qualitative information provided by surveys/interviews
of actors’ representative of the different social, economic and cultural
activities of the whole territory.
How to use the territory game
Programme, U. N. H. S. (2001). Tools to support participatory
urban decision making. In Urban governance toolkit series.
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15. This information allows us to elaborate the background of the
model and the cards which constitute the game supports.
How to use the territory game
Lardon, S. (2013). Construire un projet territorial Le " jeu de territoire ",
un outil de coordination des acteurs locaux. Sciences Pour l’Action et Le
Développement, 38, 1–4.

16. Analyze the organizing principles
of the space expressed in the form
of graphic models
Visualize these graphic models which
serve as a guideline to confront and
integrate the knowledge produced
throughout the process.
The "territory game" takes place in a participative workshop
where we:
How to use the territory game
Lardon, S. (2013). Construire un projet territorial Le " jeu de territoire ",
un outil de coordination des acteurs locaux. Sciences Pour l’Action et Le
Développement, 38, 1–4.

17. The game is played in 3 steps
Each player receives X number of cards. They first
select one, state the information on it, argue its
importance for the territory,
After they propose a legend, and draw the
characteristics of the territory on the common model.
This acts as an object of collective reflection and
discussion.
1. Draw a portrait of the territory and identify the issues.

18. The second step is based on a combination of dynamics that show
possible horizons of the future
The scenarios are then presented to all workshop participants.
The confrontation of the different scenarios with the support of debates
help to express the evolutions wanted or feared by the actors.
The game is played in 3 steps
2. Imagine evolutionary scenarios

19. Different scenarios
are summarized.
Conditions that hinder
or facilitate the
implementation of a
given scenario are
highlighted.
Actions are set out to
be taken to achieve
the desired
directions.
Courses of action are
recorded for later
use.
3. Framing possible actions
The game is played in 3 steps

20. In conclusion
The implementation of the territory game in a variety of
concrete situations has proven
its relevance in
fostering the learning
of the expression of
points of view
the confrontation of
ideas,
a better collective
ownership of a
territorial
development project.

21. Bibliography
+ Wang, F. (2020). Why public health needs GIS: a methodological overview. Annals of GIS, 26(1), 1–
12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2019.1702099
+ Lardon, S. (2013). Construire un projet territorial Le " jeu de territoire ", un outil de coordination des
acteurs locaux. Sciences Pour l’Action et Le Développement, 38, 1–4.
+ Programme, U. N. H. S. (2001). Tools to support participatory urban decision making. In Urban
governance toolkit series.