Tips for trainers
Contributed by PERRY WALKER, GHEE BOWMAN, GWEN VAUGHAN, and ROWENA HARRIS
For this issue, we look at how Drawing Shields has been used during workshops and courses in different ways by different practitioners. Each example describes how the Shields can be used in different ways: as an icebreaker, to encourage workshop participants to open up; to consider issues, to find common ground, and to discuss change and ways forward; TIPS FOR TRAINERS TIPS FOR as a means of self-expression, and to consider their own strengths and skills; and to create an atmosphere of trust and reflection amongst the group.
Drawing Shields An example from Perry Walker What I did was to introduce the idea of a coat of arms as a means of self- expression. I then asked participants to: • draw an outline of a shield, with a horizontal line across it (they were welcome to make the shield any shape they liked if that would help to demilitarise it); • draw an animal that had resonance for them above it; • do a drawing on the top half of the shield about their current life; • do a drawing in the bottom half of the shield about their desired future life; • underneath the shield to draw on An example from Rowena Harris depending on the group size. the left factors inhibiting the I’ve used Drawing Shields, and I Aim: To introduce participants to achievement of that desired future make it up according to what I want each other and foster an and on the right factors promoting participants to consider, discuss, or atmosphere of listening and it; and, become aware of. This could be openness. • at the bottom of the page to write strengths, dreams, visions, or what is Materials required: A4 paper and a motto – the only place where most loved or valued; interests, marker pen for each participant, and words are allowed. hobbies, or pastimes; or qualities your own example of a completed Everyone then talked about his or and skills that participants can shield. her shield. It worked very well. contribute and bring to a team. Context: This exercise works best at ● Source: Perry Walker, Director, Democracy ● Source: Rowena Harris, Independent the very start of a training workshop Programme, New Economics Foundation, Facilitator, BJ Associates, Top Office, 49 or course, when the majority of Cinnamon House, 6–8 Cole Street, London Thingwall Park, Bristol BS16 2AJ, UK. Email: participants don’t know each other SE1 4YH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7089 2848; [email protected] yet. ICA:UK regularly use this activity Fax: +44 (0)20 7407 6473; Email: at the start of our Volunteer [email protected] An example from Ghee Bowman Orientation Weekends. Time taken: 20 minutes or more, Steps: Before the session, prepare
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your own Shield (at least in your them plenty of time for this; it’s often the course (details on request). TIPS FOR TRAINERS head if not on paper). Draw a Shield a good chance for people to share ● Source: Ghee Bowman, Volunteer on a piece of paper with a marker other ideas and anxieties about the Service Programme Coordinator, ICA:UK, pen and divide it into four. In each course. Tell them that they’ll be 15 Mile Lane, Exeter EX4 9AA, UK. quarter draw something that’s introducing their partner to the whole Tel: +44 (0)1392 422216; significant in your life – a person, a group later. Email: [email protected]; thing, a place, a hobby, or an When they’re ready, bring them Website: www.ica-uk.org.uk interest… four things about yourself back into a circle and ask them to that you’re prepared to tell the show their partner’s Shield, indicating An example from Gwen Vaughan group. It helps if you don’t draw it to the different drawings, and to I have loved using the shield: it is too neatly or professionally, as you introduce their partner to the group. simple, powerful, and very flexible! can make a joke about not needing For example, ‘This is Hannah, she likes In the context of change, to be a great artist for this exercise. reading, she was born in Italy, she has whether personal or organisational, Write your name on the Shield. two sisters and a twin brother, and it can be the protective shield with Show your Shield to the group she’s a nurse’. which we go into battle. The four and briefly explain the four sections. When everybody has introduced sections contain representations of So in my Shield I might draw a quick their partner, thank them and where we are, where we wish to go, picture of my wife Rebecca and appreciate the wealth of skill, interest, and the factors that help or hinder daughters Alex and Hannah, the ICA and experience in the room. Put all the change. The representations symbol to show my work, a map the Shields in a prominent place on may be literal or metaphorical – the showing Egypt (where I worked as a the wall for the duration of the key is the visualisation of change volunteer for two years) and me course, and remember that some and the discussion around the running – one of my hobbies. Other people may want to take their Shield issues. people might draw something more away with them at the end. On a lighter note, the shield abstract like a concept, something Variations and limitations: VSO makes a great introductory exercise related to their studies, something have used a similar exercise on their (and quite fun for an international about where they live… whatever is Preparing for Change course, where audience, some of whom have no important in their life that they’d a group of four participants each concept of heraldry, to learn like to share with the group. draw one concern in a section of a something that comes from my Give each person (including course large Shield, then write a motto cultural traditions). For participants leaders) a sheet of paper and a marker underneath to express a positive to be able to draw the things that pen, and give them five minutes or so approach towards their shared mean home, an animal that to do the same (don’t rush them, it concerns. represents self, a vehicle to represent may be difficult for some). Some people find the word your work, and the thing that makes When most of them have ‘Shield’ carries some negative feelings you happiest, can introduce a finished, ask them to pair up with of being defensive, so instead call the closeness and depth of somebody they don’t know and product a ‘Coat of Arms’. communication early in an event. introduce themselves using their We usually follow this exercise ● Source: Gwen Vaughan, Shield (make sure the course leaders with another exercise to discover Freelance consultant. are included in the pairings). Give what the participants expect from Email: [email protected]
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In this section, we aim to update readers on activities of European Region: Jane Stevens, Participation Group, NETWORK RCPLA the Resource Centres for Participatory Learning and Action Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Network (RCPLA) Network (www.rcpla.org) and its Brighton BN1 9RE, UK. Tel: + 44 (0)1273 678690; members. For more information please contact the RCPLA Fax: + 44 (0)1273 21202; Email: [email protected]; Network Steering Group: Participation group website: www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip RCPLA Coordination: Tom Thomas (Network Coordinator), Latin American Region: Fernando Dick, Dirección de Director, Institute for Participatory Practices (Praxis), S-385, Programas de Investigación y Desarrollo (DPID), Universdad Greater Kailash II, New Delhi – 110 049, India. Tel: +91 11 Nur, Casilla 3273, Ave Cristo Redendor No. 100, Santa Cruz, 641 8885/ 6/ 7, 623 3525; Fax: +91 11 641 8885/ 6/ 7, Bolivia. Tel: +591 3 363 939; Fax: +591 3 331 850; Email: 623 3525 Extn: 21; Email: [email protected] [email protected]; Website: http://dpid.nur.edu Lilian Chatterjee, Director of Communications, Institute for North Africa & Middle East Region: Ali Mokhtar, Center for Environment & Development (IIED), 3 Endsleigh Street, Development Services (CDS), 4 Ahmed Pasha Street, London WC1H 0DD, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7388 2117; Email: Citibank Building, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt. [email protected]; Website: www.iied.org Tel: +20 2 795 7558; Fax: +20 2 794 7278; Asian Region: Jayatissa Samaranayake, Institute for Email: [email protected]; Participatory Interaction in Development (IPID), 591 Website: www.neareast.org/explore/cds/index.htm Havelock Road, Colombo 06, Sri Lanka. Tel: +94 1 555521; Southern and Eastern Africa Region: Eliud Wakwabubi, Tel/Fax: +94 1 587361; Email: [email protected] Participatory Methodologies Forum of Kenya (PAMFORK), West Africa Region: Awa Faly Ba, IIED Programme Sahel, Jabavu Road, PCEA Jitegemea Flats, Flat No. D3, P.O. Box Point E, Rue 6 X A, B.P. 5579, Dakar, Sénégal. Tel: +221 2645, KNH Post Office, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel/Fax: +254 27 824 4417; Fax: +221 824 4413; Email: [email protected] 16609; Email: [email protected]
News from Praxis combination of tools to assess the our research. The final design Praxis has been working with EMF financial performance, social employed a combination of Films, The Netherlands on a impact/relevance, technical quality, qualitative and quantitative research documentary project focusing on the and systemic strengths of an methods. realities of poverty and the poor in intervention from the perspective of The development audit is an India. EMF films were particularly primary and other internal/external important step towards assessing and interested in the participatory research stakeholders. It is an instrument that understanding the impact of poverty and films that Praxis has produced in can be used by organisations to alleviation programmes on the lives of recent years. Both Praxis and EMF increase accountability, effectiveness, the poor. It also provides a Films recognise the huge and transparency (and thus, transparent analysis of the complimentarity between research acceptability) of programmes/projects mechanisms that are required to and the media in bringing the through stakeholder engagement. implement such a scheme from the perspectives of the poor and A holistic, participatory approach, perspectives of the implementing marginalised to a wider audience. involving all stakeholders at all stages agencies. The results of the In November 2002, Praxis was of the audit, was adopted. development audit will be converted commissioned by the World Bank to Participatory workshops were into actionable procedures that will conduct a Development Audit of the conducted with stakeholders at involve key stakeholders of DPIP. As World Bank-funded District Poverty various levels from state to village as the development audit is a Initiative Program (DPIP) in Rajasthan. well as with external stakeholders. groundbreaking initiative Praxis will This mid-term development audit This enabled stakeholders to offer publish the results for a wider exercise was undertaken to assess the their perspectives about the audience, and for use as a guide for efficacy, orientation, and systemic implementation and impact of the similar projects to be conducted in the strengths of the project. It was a programme initiatives and to provide future. forward-looking exercise, aimed at suggestions for improvements. The Continuing our commitment to informing the design of the remaining design of the development audit was providing opportunities to young phase of the project. constantly evolving to ensure that all people interested in pursuing a career Development Audit (DA) is a facets of the DPIP were captured in in the development sector, Praxis was
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joined in January by a volunteer, gives GNTP the opportunity of sharing events in Uganda and Nigeria over Shane Boris, an Economics, Religious Bolivian experiences in citizen the last nine months. These included Studies, and Political Science participation and local governance national workshops, local radio, local undergraduate from the University of with other countries. language newspapers, poster Ohio, USA. He came to India to get GNTP recently celebrated its first campaigns, and theatre events. For exposure to participatory approaches year of support by DFID, which means more information see IDS Research in India and to learn about the that the second phase is just Report 54 (details below). contribution of participatory beginning! We hope that it will bring A New Weave of Power, People approaches to policy making. Shane further achievements and the and Politics: the action guide for RCPLA NETWORK embraced the opportunity to be consolidation of the network as a advocacy and citizen participation involved in all areas of Praxis work, learning community. (Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller) including a field study in Haryana. ● For more information about GNTP, visit was published by World Neighbors at www.GNTParticipa.org. the end of last year. It is a manual for News from DIPD people and organisations grappling DIPD has been coordinating the News from IDS with issues of power, politics, and National Working Group for Over the last few months we have exclusion. Extracts from the manual Participation (GNTP) over the past been involved in two important featured in issue 43 of PLA Notes. year. GNTP is a network of institutions workshops. The first, ‘Sharing Copies are available from World and independent members Experiences on Values, Attitudes, and Neighbors (www.wn.org). committed to participatory processes Behaviour: Exploring Opportunities March sees the publication of IDS in Bolivia. Formed in 1994, it has for PLA and Advocacy in Trade Research Report 54 Poverty applied participatory methods and Unions’ Work’, was convened by the Knowledge and Poverty Processes in tools in different development areas Nigeria Labour Congress in Uganda: case studies from Bushenyi, all over the country. It has also collaboration with the UK Lira, and Tororo districts (Brock, provided training expertise for specific Department for International McGee, Okech, and Ssuuna). Limited projects, municipalities, government Development. It provided a forum for numbers of many of our publications institutions, and international trade unions to share experiences and are available for Southern cooperation. reflect on how they have engaged organisations and resource centres for GNTP fits into the current national with their constituencies and other free. Please contact us for details. reality by concentrating efforts on the actors in their work. implementation of Poverty Relief The second, ‘Tools and News from IIED Programmes within the PRSP, Methodologies for Participatory General news Dialogue Law, Popular Participation Urban Governance’, held in China in IIED welcomed a new Chair, Jan Law and HIPC II resources. It is February, was sponsored by Ford Pronk, former Environment Minister involved in a series of projects aimed Foundation China. and brought and Development Minister in at strengthening local actors in together twenty-five participants from successive Dutch governments. Mr Northern Potosí (Caripuyo, Llallagua), local governments, NGOs, community Pronk, who was UN Special Envoy for Vallegrande and other municipalities organisations, and academic the World Summit on Sustainable in order to reinforce the participation institutions, Participants were able to Development, is able to contribute his spaces established by law and work through concepts, tools, and considerable knowledge and promote social and institutional methodologies used in pursuing the experience in government and the capacities and citizens’ practice of participatory governance United Nations. empowerment. in other countries and to explore how Take the chance to have your say GNTP is also contributing to the these might be employed in their own in IIED’s information survey entitled ‘Is LogoLink Programme, the contexts. IIED meeting your information international comparative learning Our three-year research project on needs?’ Complete our survey and you experience coordinated by the Poverty Knowledge and Policy could win US$100 worth of our Participation Group at the Institute of Processes has seen project partners publications. The IIED Information Development Studies in Brighton. This engaged in a series of dissemination Survey can be filled out online
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