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A Participatory Systematization Workbook: Documenting, Evaluating and Learning from our Development Projects
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This workbook describes 'systematization' as a method of instituting a continuous process of participatory reflection on a project's processes and results, undertaken by both project staff and participants. The systematic analysis generates lessons which are fed back to improve the project. The final section includes a variety of tools (such as written exercises, worksheets and tables) that may be used for conducting the process.
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Assessing Sustainability: An Overview of Approach, Methods, Tools and Experience
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Overview document in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This project has developed and tested methods for all three types of assessment: system assessment, self assessment and project assessment. Tools and methods are examined in detail in the individual booklets.
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IUCN
Participatory and Reflective Analytical Mapping for Sustainability (PRAM)
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One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. PRAM is a method to help planners, field workers and researchers reflect on a system from an early stage and thereby assist in identifying priority areas for action and research. PRAM can be used to assess any region, from a village to a continent.
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IUCN
Questions of Survival: A Questioning Approach to Understanding Sustainable and Equitable Development
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One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This booklet describes a set of questions about people's relations with each other and the ecosystem. Its main purpose is to support self assessment, but it is also useful as an introduction to identifying changes in ecosystem and human wellbeing in system assessment.
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IUCN
Reflective Institutions: Eight Characteristics of Institutions that Encourage and Respond to Learning by Doing
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One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This volume is designed to help an organisation develop a capacity for reflection by clarifying its mission, analysing what makes an institution reflective, and then restructuring accordingly.
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IUCN
Assessing Rural Sustainability: A Companion Booklet to Planning Action for Rural Sustainability
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One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This booklet is to be used together with "Planning Action for Rural Sustainability". These two documents describe a method of system assessment for use by field teams and rural communities working together. It uses and adapts well known participatory tools for community participation.
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IUCN
Planning Action for Rural Sustainability: A Companion Booklet to Assessing Rural Sustainability
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One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This volume is to be used together with "Assessing Rural Sustainability". These two documents describe a method of system assessment for use by field teams and rural communities working together. It uses and adapts well known participatory tools for community participation.