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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING: --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:36:20 GMT From: Katy Anis <[log in to unmask]> Please reply to [log in to unmask] Dear Colleagues: I wanted to let you know that GroundWork is preparing for our next training workshop on Participatory Research and Action. This next course will be held in Ireland next May. Do let us know if you or any of your staff would like to attend, and feel free to pass this announcement along to those whom you think would be interested. Many kind regards, Katy Anis GroundWork Please reply to [log in to unmask] Workshop in Participatory Research and Action Ireland, May 2-6, 2000 GroundWork is offering a five-day workshop for managers, sector specialists and researchers working in international development or donor organizations who want to learn more about how to do and how to commission participatory research. Sectors include education, health, microfinance and gender. The workshop will be held May 2-6, 2000 in a seaside village on the west coast of Ireland. Registration closes when 18 participants have been selected. GroundWork is an international consortium of consultants who specialize in approaches for bridging national and local perspectives to create meaningful policy and more effective local development. One of its strengths is the creation of research and design tools, both for grass-root and for high-tech applications in development. GroundWork has conducted many training workshops in participatory research and other research approaches in Africa, Asia, the United States and Europe. On previous courses, participants have included senior staff from the World Bank, UNICEF, CARE, and Catholic Relief Services, among others. What will the workshop cover? Workshop sessions and field sessions in a local setting will be used to learn · what participatory research and action is, and how to do it · when it is useful, and when other ways of producing information would be better · how to use the results to make practical organizational decisions and to affect planning and policy · how to commission a participatory research team and how to write terms of reference · where and how to use participatory research in the project cycle, and as part of research projects · how to help communities to implement some of the results through their own resources and · how to apply what you have learned to your own sector. In addition to the common course materials, each participant will receive a manual showing how to carry out a sample participatory learning and action project in his/her chosen sector, education, health, gender or microfinance. What will the workshop equip you to do? If you have not done participatory research before, at the end of the workshop you should be able to · join a participatory exercise or project as a well-informed informed member of the team · commission participatory research and prepare useful terms of reference · determine whether and where you can use participatory research in a project or in a larger piece of research · write a brief report on how participatory research can be used in your organization If you have done some participatory research before, you will improve your skills in design of participatory projects and be able to handle issues that cause practical problems for practitioners, such as data aggregation, sampling, analysis of qualitative data and other methodological issues. Who should attend this workshop? -people working in national and international bodies, including government and non-governmental organizations, who need to be able to carry out participatory research or commission other people to do so. -graduate students using participatory research in development-related theses Who should not take this course? GroundWork welcomes all serious learners, but there are people who need a different course: 1) the professional “workshoppper” who simply moves from one workshop to another as part of a career process. A serious aim of our courses is that participants will use what they learn to become more informed practitioners or commissioners of participatory research. 2) people who want to be trainers. This workshop is not a training of trainers program. Workshop details The workshop uses a combination of group sessions and field trips to help participants who want to conduct and/or commission participatory research. On the first and second day of the workshop, participants will learn basic participatory research techniques. For those who know the basic techniques, we offer separate sessions in other qualitative methods that can be integrated into a participatory research exercise. All will have an opportunity to practice what they learn during a field trip and some shorter field exercises. On the third day, we have the field trip, and a review session on the day’s results. On the morning of day four, we look at some newer issues in participatory research: aggregating materials from many communities, converting qualitative material to quantitative results; helping local people to fund and implement some of their results. On the afternoon of day four and and throughout day five, each participant designs a simple study or a basic project in education, health, gender, environment or microfinance, selecting tools from a resource kit designed for each of these areas. The course will be facilitated by senior experts in participatory research from GroundWork. The two major facilitators for the workshop will be Eileen Kane, an anthropologist who has extensive experience in participatory approaches to education and health projects throughout the world. She is the author of Doing Your Own Research (Boyars 1993), Seeing for Yourself: Handbook for Research in Girls’ Education (World Bank, 1995)and co-author of Doing Your Own Research, 2ND. Ed. (Boyars 2000) and specializes in research design, participatory research and planning, and research training for non-researchers. Mary O'Reilly-de Brún, an anthropologist who has extensive experience of applying participatory research to gender issues and to education. She is co-author of Doing Your Own Research (London: Boyars, 2000) and has produced manuals on gender and on participatory learning and action for a wide variety of national and international organizations. She is currently directing a government-sponsored nation-wide participatory research project for women in Ireland. These facilitators have also collaborated on a number of participatory tools, including the videos Groundwork, Two-Way PLA, and Invisible Voices. Venue and cost The workshop will take place in Kinvara, an attractive village on Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland in a comfortable modern hotel that is one of the largest thatched buildings in Europe. (Participants who wish to combine this course with a break will find the area rich in scenic locations such as the Cliffs of Moher; sites of interest to naturalists such as the Burren, a world-famous limestone plain; archeological and historical sites, fishing, championship golf courses, music and literary connections including the homes of William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory; and the renowned traditional music community of Doolin, County Clare. ) The cost for the five-day course is US $1800 including tuition, course materials, six nights’ accommodation (private room and bath, breakfast and dinner) and a closing dinner in an ancient Irish castle. Because of the participatory, hands-on nature of the learning activities, the course is limited to eighteen participants. Closing date for applications, including refundable deposit of $400, is March 1. (Course closes after eighteen applicants have been accepted.) To apply, please complete the form at the end of this document and return to GroundWork 1825 Eye St. NW Washington, DC 20006 for more information, contact [log in to unmask] Application Form for Participatory Learning and Action Workshop in Ireland, May 2-6 2000 Name email address address for postal correspondence daytime phone number fax evening phone number: occupation employer Please supply us with a brief statement about your experience, interests, etc., which will help us in making the workshop more relevant for you. The full cost of the course is $1800. This includes private room and bath, breakfast and dinner, workshop and all training materials. We require a deposit of $400 by March 1, 2000. (Applications close when eighteen participants are accepted.) The deposit is refundable if cancellation is made three weeks in advance of the workshop. 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