ResilienceParticipatoryImpact
Assessmentoutline –May2024
1.1OUTLINE
The workshop has two main aspects:
-Assessing human and social increase in resilience and agency through implementation
and processes
-Assessing resilience of climate resilient agriculture implementation and
PIA workshop outline
1.2PART1:HUMANANDSOCIALABSORPTIVEANDTRANSFORMATIVECAPACITY
1.2.1 Social organisation mind mapping exercise
Prepared cards for organisations – large, medium and small circles. Hand out a selection of
cards to each participant.
➢Ask them to write on cards which organisations they belong to and are present in
their village (both internal and external) choosing cards according to the
importance of the organisation in the village.
➢Then collect all cards and create clusters of organisations according to types – as
a mind map.
➢Then ask participants to estimate no of people in each organisation (broken down
by men, women, youth, poor people…and write those in next to the organisations.
Include a small discussion on what participants notice here in relation to gender
and equity
1.2.2 Small group exercise (functions, activities, learning)
Prepare ip charts with the following questions in a table for each group
Group
name
function
Activities
(what the
group does
and helps
with)
Increased
knowledge-
What have
you learnt?
What can
you do now
that you
couldn’t
before
How are
things
better
How has
this
changed
your own
beliefs and
attitudes
Rank -
most
important
for you
and say
why
➢Divide participants into‘homogenous’ small groups – men, women and youth
➢Each group picks a cluster of organisations to analyse (facilitator adds some
organisations for groups with too few)
➢They ll in the questions in the table provided to them
➢Report back to plenary _pick one or two organisations from each small group to be
presented back to main group
➢Follow with a short discussion: What farmers have learnt and how that will change
how they do things in the future (ito farming, livelihoods, water, resources,
economy, self advancement, infrastructure, adapting to climate change, health,
community organisations…)
➢Then ask them how this has helped them adapt to CC – and whether it has had an
impact on conict in the community (is it more/less or dierent than before.
1.2.3 Venn diagram- relationships between organisations (internal and external)
Facilitate in plenary. Prepare sets of dot-stickers – Colour 1: Most positive impact , Colour two:
Little to medium impact and Colour 3: Negative impact
➢Start with a central circle called ‘the community
➢Explain again that the size of the cards means the importance of the organisation
➢Explain that distance between organisations means how well they
relate/interact/share/ work together
➢Get one or two participants to assist to place theseorganisations on the diagram
according to distance.
➢Then analyse the organisations and or the distance(relationship between them)
according to their impact on adaptive capacity (ability to cope and thrive under
diicult conditions)
➢Follow with short discussion: List of connections and average no. of active cross-
scale connections' meetings/events with people outside the community - other
villages, stakeholders.
1.3PART2:IMPROVEDRESILIENCETHROUGHADAPTATION
1.3.1 Recap climate change impacts
➢Explore what people have noticed about impacts and make lists under headings:
natural, physical, economic, human and social
Group level brainstorming of ideas; written on cards under the headings given, with arrows for
increase or decrease
1.3.2. Recap adaptive strategies/ practices
➢What have people been doing to adapt to this, x the problems, make things better?
Group level brainstorming; Elucidate adaptations for each category: natural, physical, economic
human, social.
Write on dierent cards (those done and those thought of) and place next to the impact, indicate
with a * which of these have been facilitated or introduced (and by whom) – this can be other
farmers, projects, extension oicers….
1.3.3. Practices: Recap 5 ngers and list all practices under each category
➢Re-introduce the 5 ngers concept – and include a further category of the whole hand –
which is the social and personal/ human
➢Which practices have been implemented (introduced and other)?
Go around in the circle and each person mentions what s/he has done (productive, economic,
social, personal actions) and what she would still like to try
➢Add these practices to the ve ngers diagram
Make an A1 diagram of the ve nger and then add practices on cards
1.3.4. What have been the changes or benets from each practice
➢What changes have there been?
Brainstorming changes – an interrogate to get to the more
➢How important are these changes to your lives? How do you decide? Which criteria
would you use to decide?
Do a matrix ranking: changes (in columns), criteria (in rows) – Use proportional piling, working
down each column by asking “how important is this practice for the criteria” and comparing the
practices with each other (to an extent) as you go down the list
OR use a scale of 0-3: -1 worse/harder, 0=no change, 1=some positive change, 2= a lot better.
Example below
EFFECTIVENESS OF PRACTICES
Soil
Water
Productivity
P&D
control
labour
Cost and
maintenance
Livelihoods
Adaptation
Name of practice
1
Micro-tunnels
0
2
3
2
2
-1
1
2
2
VSLAs
0
0
2
0
1
2
3
2
3
Water access
3
2
3
2
2
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12