Participatory Intergrated Development Process

PICD MODULES

2.0 Participatory Intergrated Development Process

2.1 Unit 02: Community entry and re-entry

Community Entry Process

Step 1: Pay courtesy call with the local leaders

Introduce yourself
Introduce the intent of the visit
Discuss and plan the need for leadership consultative meeting

Step 2: Hold a local Leaders consultative meeting

Repeat the introduction
- Yourself (facilitator/s)
- Proposed development initiative to the area
Seek their permission and opinion
Identify the local institutions that need to be involved in the development initiative
Establish the relationship between the local institutions and target community
Request for a consultation with representatives of these institutions
Request for a meeting with the entire community agreeing on the appropriate date, time, venue, leaders roles, feeding (where applicable).

Step 3: Hold a meeting with the entire community

Repeat the introduction
- Yourself (facilitator/s)
- Proposed development initiative to the area
Seek communities opinion about the proposed development initiative
Explain the modalities of the project
- Objectives
- Target group (if different from whole community)
- Planning and implement Process
- Preconditions (training/s, elections, group registration, committee, bank account, contribution, etc)

2.2 Unit 03: Awareness Creation & Attitude Change phase

Purpose: The phase aims at changing the community members’ attitude towards their own development by assisting them to identify enabling and disabling development approaches.

The communities are facilitated to conduct a role play as part of the learning, investigate the learning points from the role play through structured questions and diverse answers and draw lessons learned on enabling and disabling approaches to development.

2.2.1 The River Code Role Play

Two men and one woman are on their way to a wedding. Then suddenly they meet a flooded river and fear crossing as it can drown them. They find a man working next to the flooded river.

Feeling trapped and unable to cross over to the other side, they ask the man to assist them to cross.

The man agrees to help them and offers to carry them on his back across the river on a free service. They agree to be carried over but the woman refuses and request to be guided on how to cross.

The man holds her hand and leads her, step by step across the flooded river stepping on the stones