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Course: Participatory Project Formulation

Project Cycle
Management

Methods

Approaches to
Participation

Rapid Rural
Appraisal

Participatory Rural
Appraisal

Participatory Action Research

Principles, Attitudes

Participatory
Project Cycle
Management

Type of Participatory
Projects

Application of participatory tools in the different project stages

Sector Specific Use
of Participatory Tools

List of Documents

Exercises

Strong or weak
participation

Stakeholder analysis

Application of Participatory Tools in the Stages of a Project

The project cycle consists usually of five main stages: identification, preparation, appraisal and agreement by the supporting agency and Government, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. For participatory projects this cycle is (to be) conceived as a flexible and fluid process; for example in some instances one or more phases could be merged or even suppressed.

The Participation Resource Section offers you the option to search for methods and approaches in the field tools section, as well as for documents in the library section and define the search results choosing the envisaged project cycle phase (The diagnosis phase encompasses the step of identification, the plannig phase encompasses the steps of preparation, appraisal and agreement by the supporting agency and Government).

Matching the Participatory Tools for Each Step in the Project Cycle

Project Cycle Stages	Tools
1. Project Diagnosis	Participatory Data-Gathering Tools help to understand the local situation Consultation and analysis of national framework needs to make sure that the planned programme is in line with national development objectives. Stakeholders Analysis, is an important step to understand the direct and indirect beneficiaries and to plan who is going to participate how Stakeholder Conflict Grid
2. Project planning	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is used to analyse problem or opportunity to be addressed by project Problem-Alternative-Objective tree is used to understand causes and effects of problems and to find alternatives and objectives for planning Logical Framework is a wholistic tool to set up the workplan for the project Community Actions Plans or Community Workshop help to initialize the planning at the community level
3. Project implementation	Alternative technologies or methods like Micro-Finance, Co-operative and Group Formation, Indigenous Forest Management
4. Monitoring and Evaluation	Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Participatory Impact Monitoring Monitoring Exercise


	Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches & Methods	...to support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security