1 Develop Systems to Involve Stakeholders in the Planning of Change
Module 5: Planning for Change: Project planning
Module aims
This module will help you facilitate stakeholders to work from an understanding of resource management issues to a project design. Specifically, it covers how to facilitate a:
Solutions tree activity.
Participatory impact assessment activity.
Discussion of project options.
Topics
5.1 Developing a solutions tree
5.2 Assessing social, economic and ecological impacts
5.3 Selecting options
5.4 Checklist of project planning issues
Introduction
The previous modules have taken project staff and stakeholders through a process of understanding resource management issues, and their social and economic context. The next stage in a participatory resource management program is planning. During this stage, facilitators working with the project can use the activities in this module involve stakeholders to develop potential solutions and selection appropriate options for development into a project plan.
Topic 5.1 Developing a solutions tree
Once the causes of resource management issues have been analysed, stakeholders are in a better position to develop targeted strategies to address some of the ‘root causes’. The solutions tree activity that follows works with the outputs of the Participatory Problem Analysis (Topic 3.3) to develop potential solutions to the identified causes of the resource management problems.
It is important to clarify that not all of the solutions identified in a solutions tree would be picked up in a project plan. In any event, time, skill and money constraints are likely to limit the ability of projects to tackle a problem from every possible angle. Therefore, the solution tree activity discussed overleaf aims to provide a logical basis for considering alternative solutions and planning for the implementation of the solutions selected. After the potential solutions have been identified, stakeholders can discuss criteria for choosing between alternative
Module aims
This module will help you facilitate stakeholders to work from an understanding of resource management issues to a project design. Specifically, it covers how to facilitate a:
Solutions tree activity.
Participatory impact assessment activity.
Discussion of project options.
Topics
5.1 Developing a solutions tree
5.2 Assessing social, economic and ecological impacts
5.3 Selecting options
5.4 Checklist of project planning issues
Introduction
The previous modules have taken project staff and stakeholders through a process of understanding resource management issues, and their social and economic context. The next stage in a participatory resource management program is planning. During this stage, facilitators working with the project can use the activities in this module involve stakeholders to develop potential solutions and selection appropriate options for development into a project plan.
Topic 5.1 Developing a solutions tree
Once the causes of resource management issues have been analysed, stakeholders are in a better position to develop targeted strategies to address some of the ‘root causes’. The solutions tree activity that follows works with the outputs of the Participatory Problem Analysis (Topic 3.3) to develop potential solutions to the identified causes of the resource management problems.
It is important to clarify that not all of the solutions identified in a solutions tree would be picked up in a project plan. In any event, time, skill and money constraints are likely to limit the ability of projects to tackle a problem from every possible angle. Therefore, the solution tree activity discussed overleaf aims to provide a logical basis for considering alternative solutions and planning for the implementation of the solutions selected. After the potential solutions have been identified, stakeholders can discuss criteria for choosing between alternative
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