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[evaltalk] Stakeholder Participation in Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop in Mexico - February 6-11, 2012
Dear Colleagues,
Mosaic and Sarar Transformacion have teamed up to offer a one week workshop
in Mexico on Participatory Planning, Needs Assessment and Monitoring and
Evaluation. This is a great way to snap out of the upcoming winter blues and
build you capacity in participatory methods! The workshop is just around the
corner and Mosaic.net is accepting registrations
<http://www.mosaic-net-intl.
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February 6-11, 2012: Stakeholder Participation Workshop in Planning, Needs
Assessment, and Monitoring and Evaluation held in Tepoztlan, Mexico
**This workshop is being offered in collaboration with
<http://www.sarar-t.org/
Mexico!
Stakeholder Participation Workshop
This year's Stakeholder Participation Workshop will be held in Tepoztolan,
Mexico in collaboration with Sarar Transformacion.
This six-day workshop will show you how to:
. MASTER participatory tools in the workplace;
. APPLY participatory approaches to the project cycle;
. DESIGN solutions for your own situation;
. ANALYZE community needs and priorities from the community
perspective;
. INTEGRATE participatory methods into project design, monitoring
and evaluations.
Here's what past participants have said about the workshop:
"The workshop was packed with information and experiences and very well
thought out. I found it quite easy to learn and internalize new tools".
"The PRA workshop achieves its goals by being fully participatory,
experiential, highly informative and fun. I will be using the tools in my
courses to raise student awareness of community education issues and in my
international development work".
"I can now connect the theory with the practice."
"There were many participants from many different organizations which meant
that there were many different perspectives represented. This led to a
richness of discussion..."
"The workshop was more than tools. It was an experience."
Why You Should Attend:
Experience has shown that participation improves the quality, effectiveness
and sustainability of our actions (i.e. engagement, organizational change,
leadership, building a common vision). By placing people at the centre, our
actions have a much greater potential to empower and to lead to the
ownership of initiatives. Giving the poor, local communities, and local
government a central voice in development efforts that affect them is at the
heart of participation.
What Results to Expect:
The workshop is based on a hands-on approach to participatory development
that can be applied in the South, in both urban and rural community
settings. You will be introduced to the concepts and tools behind
participatory development, also referred to as "Participatory, Learning and
Action" (PLA) and "Participatory Rural/Rapid Appraisal" (PRA). Practice
assignments in the community will enable you to master and improve the tools
and approaches to participation, to help you and/or your organization
interact more effectively with groups and/or the community.
You can expect to enhance your awareness, knowledge or skills in any of the
following areas:
. Using participation in project design, management, monitoring and
evaluation;
. Increasing participation of different interest groups or
stakeholders;
. Learning and applying participation tools and community-based
research methods such as semi-structured interviewing, community mapping,
gender division of labour,
. institutional mapping, force-field analysis, seasonal calendars,
historical timelines, and more;
. Organizational development and capacity-building for your
organization;
. Community development methods.
Who Will be There?
This workshop is designed for:
. Professionals & managers who work with different stakeholder
groups at government, intermediary or community levels;
. NGOs who are interested in learning the latest techniques in
participatory development;
. Participatory-action researchers and educators who use and teach
qualitative methods;
. Policy, program and project officers who make critical decisions on
organizational policy, resource allocations, project design, monitoring and
evaluation;
. First Nations facilitators and leaders who work directly with
aboriginal groups; and,
. Community activists who want to learn dynamic community methods
and tools.
. Consultants who want to broaden their repertoire of tools &
methods.
All participants should have a basic knowledge of English and Spanish and be
able to express themselves in both languages.
Workshop Structure
This workshop is an intensive six day workshop set in the community to
maximize learning, group interaction and networking. Sessions begin at 8:30
in the morning and run all day including some evenings, particularly Monday
night. Please note that community work in communities is extensive and
requires the full commitment of all workshop participants.
Day 1: Introduction to Stakeholder Participation
. Setting the Context: The Origins of Participatory Methods and
Approaches
. Key Concepts Related to Stakeholder Participation
. Attitudes and Behaviors Conducive to Participation
Day 2: Practicing the Tools
. Participatory Project Design and Planning
. Undertaking Participatory Evaluations
. Practicing PRA/PLA tools
Day 3: Learning the Tools
. Community Mapping
. Semi-Structured Interviewing
. Institutional Mapping
. Facilitating Groups
. Dealing with Saboteurs
. Seasonal Calendars
. Timelines
. Venn Diagrams
. Applying a gender approach to the application of PRA tools
. Appreciative Inquiry, and more......
Days 4 & 5: Practice Assignments in the Community
Mosaic will organize three-day community assignments based on the needs and
priorities of community-based organizations in the Tepoztlan, Mexico area.
Project teams will work together intensively, practising tools learned in
the workshop and adapting them to real life situations. Past participants of
workshops have worked on the following topics:
. Survey of community health needs and services
. Exploring community needs and how to increase volunteerism
. Assessing youth priorities
. Resident needs and concerns for a new recreational facility
. Community input to a Wellness Program
Day 6: Group Reports, Building Your Action Plan and Evaluation
. Presentation of Team Reports
. Preparing an Action Plan
. Certificates, Evaluation and Wrap-Up for 1:30 pm.
How Will This be Achieved?
This is a practical, iterative and hands-on workshop. The format will vary
between small group work and discussion, plenary, and practical community
assignments to encourage the sharing of knowledge and application of
participatory concepts and tools to real life situations. Participants will
go out into the community on a daily basis to apply tools and to learn by
doing.
The community practice assignments will be in one of five different
communities in and around Tepoztlan, Mexico. Teams of participants will
carry out a simulated participatory development exercise, using the tools
learned in the workshop. Where appropriate, links will be made to existing
community groups and their issues. Evening meetings and on-going
team-building exercises will be part of this process.
The Workshop Site and Accommodations:
The course will take place in a retreat house in Tepoztlan, Morelos State,
Mexico. The facilities are elegantly and solemnly built out of volcanic
stone and wood, and it has 2 gardens.
Quinta Tonantzin also has a great kitchen, large dining room and a common
living area with TV, phone and internet access. All of the 2-single shared
bedrooms (each with a traditional toilet and shower) are located around a
central courtyard.
How to arrive:
Mexico City Benito Juarez International Airport is located at the northeast
of the city. After leaving the international arrivals gate, you can find
Currency Exchange Houses and stores where you can buy 30 peso Ladatel public
telephone cards. Please use your card to call the Sarar Transformacion host
to inform them of your arrival. For further airport information, go to:
<http://www.aicm.com.mx/home_
Once in the airport, go to the Information Booth to ask about the "Pullman
de Morelos" bus company. Once you find the bus departure, buy the next
single ticket to Cuernavaca (About $12 in the daytime or $ 25 at night time
or 200-300 pesos); the trip lasts around 2 hours. Upon your arrival to
Casino de la Selva Bus Terminal in Cuernavaca, take a taxi ($ 12 USD or 140
pesos) there to Tepoztlan. Make sure you have a printed version of how to
get to Quinta Tonantzin to hand out to the taxi driver. The trip should last
no more than 50 minutes.
Quinta Tonantzin is located in Tenochtitlan Street, 56, Barrio de Santo
Domingo. Once in the lower part of central Tepoztlan, go to Barrio de Santo
Domingo, which can be reached turning left through Albino Ortega Street, and
right on Tenochtitlan. As a reference is Casa Toledo, and Quinta Tonantzin
is the following construction on the corner; the entrance is on the right,
with a large black door.
If you choose to stay in a hotel in Mexico City prior to your arrival to the
retreat, we have the following suggestions:
Hotel Casa Gonzalez, located in a central tourist section of the city with
accessible prices ( $ 35-$ 70 USD), not so far away from the airport. For
further information and reservations, go to:
<http://www.hotelcasagonzalez.
<http://www.travelpod.com/
http://www.travelpod.com/
Useful telephone numbers upon your arrival & map:
Sarar Office: 01 (739) 395 7505 / 04 and Laura Perez Cell Phone 045 (777)
201 2877
Registration Fees:
. UN, international institutions and Government: $ 1700 USD
. International NGOs, academics, private sector: $1380 USD
. Local NGOs and private sector, full time students from the North:
$ 1100 USD (must provide proof of full-time student status)
. Full time Students from the South: USD $ 795.00. (must provide
proof of full time student status)
**The workshop fee includes: Accommodations for 6 days and meals from Sunday
night-Saturday lunch except lunch during Thursday and Friday during the
community assignment; Workshop fees, a binder of tools and resource
materials, snacks and coffee.
Please note that all participants should have a basic knowledge of Spanish
and be able to express themselves in the Spanish language.
Full details are available at <http://www.mosaic-net-intl.
www.mosaic-net-intl.ca. We look forward to your participation.
Francoise Coupal, Director of Mosaic.net International, Inc.
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