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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
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[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. Checks should be made payable
to GroundWork,
at
GroundWork
1825 Eye St., NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC,
20006.
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