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About Us
About Us
Welcome to our website! We are the Participatory Approach Services (PAS) team at LEAD Global, a unit of SIL. We put together this website to serve as a hub for information and resources related to participatory approaches and community engagement.
We work together with members of the Participatory Approach Community of Practice (PA CoP) to engage communities in conversations that help them think, plan, and decide together on things that matter to them.
The Participatory Approach Community of Practice (PA CoP) is a global community of facilitators that ask questions, share experiences, and learn together about using a participatory approach. Many of us are involved with language-related work towards long term, holistic, and transformative change as God desires among the communities we serve.
We oragnize training events, such as the PMEC workshop, as well as PA CoP gatherings for learning and sharing together. For more information, please email us at pas@sil.org.
What Is a Participatory Approach?
What Is a Participatory Approach?
A participatory approach involves a combination of mindset, techniques and tools which help groups of people to think and talk together in order to describe and analyze their situation, decide what to do, plan how to do it, and evaluate what has been done.
Using a participatory approach affirms that the local community members are key assessors, planners, deciders, and implementers of development.
A participatory mindset values the skills, talents, knowledge, and experiences of each participant in the discussion.
Participatory techniques encourage dialogue by organizing and visualizing spoken content, directing the pace and flow of discussion, and affirming all participants’ contributions.
Participatory tools provide structure to conversations in a way that encourages diverse thinking but keeps the group moving toward developing consensus and planning for future action.
The Participatory Methods for Engaging Communities (PMEC) Workshop
Outcome Harvesting / Outcome Mapping
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