Learn how to make your participatory research tools more effective in the field

1. 3 Ways to Make your Participatory
Tools More Effective

2. PARTICIPATORY METHODS
An alternative tool to traditional-style
development methods

3. PARTICIPATORY METHODS
An alternative tool to traditional-style
development methods
In the 1970s and have
been well-used for
development practice
since the 1990s

4. Work by propagating a more linear method
towards addressing development issues

5. They are positive and
inclusive because they
allow researchers to
step outside power
structures
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6. Shed privilege positions
Adopt a listening
Observing tactic rather than a question-answer
approach

7. Participants to voice their own reality and
define their own empowerment

8. Few things to be considered by development
professionals when using participatory tools

9. 1
Be conscious about existing
norms and structures

10. When there are time constraints
Participatory tools are often used as
a quick method to GET DATA AND
INFORMATION

11. KEEP IN MIND
Local customs and values
Aware about existing power structures
Gender relations in the community

12. DISCONNECT AND
DIFFERENCES IN BELIEFS
BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONALS AND
COMMUNITIES

13. RESOLVED BY DOING PRIOR
SECONDARY RESEARCH
Connecting with people
Who have lived or worked there
Popular beliefs, notions and
idiosyncrasies

14. HELP IN UNDERSTANDING
THE CONTEXT BEFORE
VISITING THE FIELD

15. 2
Do not misrepresent or
ignore data

16. DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS
SHOULD BE
Empathetic
Non-judgemental
Not make assumptions about the
participants’ way of life

17. Non-threatening way by opening spaces for
healthy conversations

18. ROBERT CHAMBERS IN 1997
These Questions Should Be Constantly
On The Researcher’s Mind
Whose knowledge counts? Whose values? Whose criteria and preferences?
Whose appraisal, analysis and planning?
Whose action?
Whose
monitoring and
evaluation?
Whose learning?
Whose
empowerment?
Whose reality
counts?

19. HELP IN ANALYSING ALL
PERSPECTIVES AND
INFORMATION WITHOUT
BIASES TAKING THE LEAD

20. 3
Do not dominate the process

21. Allowing participant to take the
centre-stage
Facilitators should pay attention to
the participation

22. Allowing participant to take the
centre-stage
Facilitators should pay attention to
the participation
Alternate spaces should be created
for non-participation

23. PARTICIPATORY TOOLS ARE
A REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
FOR BOTH THE
RESEARCHER AND THE
PARTICIPANT

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