Building Bridges between Citizens and Local Governments Through Participatory Planning: Part 2 Toolkit

This manual (Part 2) is presented in two parts. Component 1 includes a few training design ideas and exercises in case you want to organize and conduct a more traditional learning event. For example, you might want to conduct a short workshop to introduce the concepts and ideas of participatory planning to local government and community leaders. Or brief trainers and facilitators on how to use the materials to design and facilitate a participatory planning process working with a planning team assembled by local leaders. These facilitated work sessions could focus on either the development of a long-range strategic plan for the community or an action plan to address a more immediate problem within the community. Many of the tools in component 2 will also be useful to use in these types of training programs.

Table of Contents:

Perspective

Component One. Training Design Tools
Tools 1: Warm up/ Ice breaker
Tools 2: Making a presentation
Tools 3: Preparing for participatory planning

Component Two. Participatory Planning Tools

Phase I. Initiating the Participatory Planning Process
Tool 1: Trigerring event
Tool 2: The planning team
Tool 3: Planning with principle

Phase II: Building Productive Partnerships
Tool 4: Facilitator-planning team contract
Tool 5: Stakeholder analysis: An on-going task within the PP process
Tool 6: Assessing team effectiveness
Tool 7: Opening Johari's window

Phase III: Reaching Out - or Focusing in
Tool 8A: Visioning
Tool 8B: Writing vision statements
Tool 9: Focusing in and the art of problem finding
Tool 10: The joy of pursuing opportunities

Phase IV: Fact-Finding and Analysis
Tool 11: Now that you found the problem, do you really want to solve it
Tool 12: Information and data collection
Tool 13: Writing objective statements
Tool 14: Force field analysis
Tool 15: SWOT Analysis

Phase V: Planning A Course Ofaction
Tool 16: Reviewing opportunities for shared leadership
Tool 17: Planning a course of action

Phase VI: Implementing Actions, Measuring Impact and Moving On
Tool 18: A discussion tool for assessing impact
Tool 19: A suggested impact assessment questionnaire
Tool 20: Assessing your personal effectiveness as a team member