Module 2

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DEVELOPMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

Facilitating Participatory Development 

Winter, 2010

INSTRUCTOR

cliebler@rootchange.org

Claudia Liebler has been involved with international development for many years, with experience in 32 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has worked with professionals from a range of disciplines including peace building, education, health, community development, micro-enterprise, social entrepreneurs, and agricultural extension. As the Project Director and Co-founder of the GEM Initiative, she was on the staff of Case Western Reserve's Weatherhead School of Management in the doctoral department of organizational behavior. GEM was a university-based program that for seven years provided capacity building for NGOs worldwide using Appreciative Inquiry and other assets based methodologies to promote individual, organizational, and community change.

Ms. Liebler’s work in capacity building includes strategies for building coordination and collaboration between organizations, government, bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, and community groups. She facilities the mobilization of networks, assists organizations to create their futures and maximize their impact in the world, and helps communities of all kinds to discover their assets and build a common agenda among diverse stakeholders.

 Ms. Liebler has worked with some of the world’s largest relief organizations helping them to bridge relief efforts with longer term development strategies. She is involved with civil society issues at the grass-roots, national and global level. After serving as the Director of participatory training and Facilitation at Pact, an international NGO she helped to found Root Change where she is Managing Partner for Services.

MODULE OVERVIEW

The UNDP Guidebook for Participation states that the notion of people’s participation is now widely recognized as a basic operational principle of development programs. This shift requires a new body of knowledge, set of skills and attitude or philosophy different from that of “expert.”  

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS all by the target date of 2015 have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest citizens. Anyone contemplating a career in international development must be able to create the conditions in which individuals, groups, organizations, communities and nations can build their own capacities to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our world today. The strengthening of capacity is synonymous with the facilitation of change and at the heart of this transformation are skills associated with learning, training, and facilitation – the conscious use of self as a tool to design and lead participatory development efforts.

This module is focused on practice. Its key purpose is to build the facilitation skills necessary to work within a participatory development framework. It will ask participants to step into the role of a facilitator of participatory development. Working in teams participants will conduct their sessions using facilitator guides developed by international NGOs, USAID and other development actors.

OUTCOMES (COMPETENCIES)   At the end of this module participants will:

• Appreciate the role of facilitators play in achieving development goals

• Use participatory methods/tools effectively

• Understand the multiple factors impacting facilitation

• Facilitate a participatory session and/or be able to recognize high quality facilitation

• Manage group dynamics

• Assess own skills and develop next steps in professional development

• Develop a personal library of facilitation tools

BLOCK AGENDA  

January 7-13, 2010 

Facilitating Participatory Development 

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			· Overview of Module: ·         Facilitation and Participatory Development · Practice Challenge: Jumping In With Both Feet · Self Assessment	· Facilitation Tools: Community Building · Facilitation Tools: Asking Questions · Facilitation Tools: Group Decision Making –Consensus Building
			· Future Search Video · Multi –Cultural Facilitation · Facilitation Tools:: Communication	· Facilitation Tools: Experiential Activities · Overview of Facilitation Assignments · Pick teams · Team Meeting/Check –In
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
· Assets based Facilitation Situational Assessment ·   Teams  gather information	·         Round 1 Facilitation Sessions · Round 2 Facilitation Sessions	· Individual Teams meet to de-brief · Affinity Teams meet (2 teams per group) to prepare joint analysis/Big Ideas · Joint Presentations
· Team Preparation	· Round 3 Facilitation Sessions ·         Teams work on Video Analysis · Evening Assignment: Feedback on Voice Thread	· Joint Presentations · Application to other Modules · Professional Development
This agenda is subject to some modification depending on the pace of the group and its interests/needs.

MODULE REQUIREMENTS

Course requirements include attending all class sessions, participating fully, doing the required readings, working as a team to design and facilitate one session, and producing the module deliverables at the end of the week.

Deliverables:

1. An assessment protocol.

2. A short description of your facilitation session

3. An analysis of your facilitation session 

4. Voice Thread feedback to two other teams' facilitation sessions