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"Experience gained in many countries shows that the acceptance and use of participatory processes is essential to achieve sustainable development. However, without tools and materials to support participatory approaches, wishes do not translate into reality. This tool kit of visual materials was pre ... pared in response to the repeated demands from people working in the field for materials that can help decision makers, project staff, training institutes, trainers and artists initiate the process of developing their own local materials to address their specific concerns. While the need for greater access to this material is clear, we hesitated for some time in putting out a global tool kit for three main reasons. First, because development is rooted in the social, cultural, economic, and political context of societies and its institutions, visual materials should be a reflection of these realities and hence, of necessity, are location-specific. Can a global tool kit, then, serve a useful purpose? After much field experience, we have concluded that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten years, we have found that participatory training is more likely to take root and spread if local trainers and artists have some visual materials to spark their imaginations and, in some sense, to use as models. Just reading about a "pocket chart" is not sufficient; seeing and handling one makes all the difference in understanding the material, its applications, and possible uses. Second, despite the importance of visual materials, readers should not conclude that community development work requires prepared visuals. Many of the activities described can be conducted without the materials included in this kit. For example, maps can be drawn on the ground, and voting can be done by putting stones in squares scratched in the dirt. Issues surrounding gender analysis can be discussed effectively in a group without any visual aids at all. It is up to practitioners to change, simplify, and adapt the materials to their own needs. At the same time, we have found that visual materials are extremely effective in breaking class, gender, education, literacy, professional training, and status barriers. This is true at both the community and agency levels. At the community level they empower those who are not used to speaking up-such as women and the poor-to express themselves and their ideas through drawing, role plays, songs, stories, puppetry and through manipulating materials that are simple to use." (Preface) more

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Planning the Development of School Textbooks: A Series of Twelve Training Modules for Educational Planners and Administrators

John Hall, Etienne Brunswic, Jean Valérien

Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (1995), 12 modules

"Developed by the International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP) and designed for guided self-instruction, these twelve modules are intended both for planners – especially those working in central units of the Ministry of Education – and for administrators involved in the development of ... more

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La discusión de grupo (foro grupal)

Manuel Olivera

Buenos Aires; Quito: PROA Asociación Latinoamericana de Comunicación Grupal;Paulinas, 2nd ed. (1995), 56 pp.

"Esta publicación es una introducción de fácil lectura a los principios básicos del debate en grupo y ofrece a los moderadores consejos concretos para organizarlo." (commbox)

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Participatory Learning & Action: A Trainer's Guide

Jules N. Pretty, Irene Guijt, Ian Scoones, John Thompson

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (1995), 267 pp.

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Mit den Medien der Kinder gegen das "Mediensyndrom": Soziales Lernen und Medienerziehung im Hort

Irmgard Hainz et al.

München: Aktion Jugendschutz Landesarbeitsstelle Bayern;Katholische Katholische Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen;Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendschutz Thüringen (1994), 94 pp.

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Guide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication

Congregation for Catholic Education

Bangalore: Archdiocesan Communications Centre (1993), 54 pp.

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VIPP: Visualisation in Participatory Programmes. A Manual for Facilitators and Trainers Involved in Participatory Group Events

Neill McKee

Dhaka: UNICEF Bangladesh (1993), x, 158 pp.

"This manual has been written for the trained facilitator. It is designed to reinforce concepts and techniques learned in training of facilitators and trainers in participatory group processes. It is the rare individual who could simply study the manual and apply it. A great deal of practice and exp ... more

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Tools for Community Participation: A Manual for Training Trainers in Participatory Techniques

Lyra Srinivasan

Washington, DC: UNDP;PROWWESS/UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (1993), 179 pp.

"Divided into two parts, this manual focuses on the SARAR (Self Esteem, Associative Strengths, Resourcefulness, Action Planning, Responsibility) approach which the Promotion of the Role of Women in Water and Environmental Sanitation Services (PROWESS) has applied in numerous projects and workshops. ... more

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Developing Health Journalists: A Training Manual for Improving News Coverage of Reproductive Health

Julia Beamish, Jane Vella

Triangle Park, North Carol.: Family Health International Research (1993), 209 pp.

"The manual aims to provide a guide to appropriate identification of participants for training, effective analysis of local news media training needs, workshop organization and design, and preparation of fund raising proposals. A step-by-step approach is used. Chapters focus on planning, participant ... more

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Training for All: Developing Video-Based Training Packages for Parent and Community Education

Roy McConkey

Paris: UNESCO (1993), 99 pp.

"Disability affects families the world over. Parents are often unsure as to how best to help the child who is handicapped and yet experience has shown that much can be done to help these children at home. Local resources, once mobilised can assist families and communities to better meet the needs of ... more

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Editing and Publication: A Handbook for Trainers

Ian Montagnes

Manila; Ottawa: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (1991), vii, 107 pp.

"A companion volume to Editing and Publication: A Training Manual (1991, by the same author) that aims to guide trainers through the best use of the Manual, offering sample exercises and ways in which to stimulate creative thinking." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, ... more

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Profession: Éditeur. Édition et gestion

Mike Hauser

Paris: UNESCO;Book House Training Centre (1990), xi, 177 pp.

Constitué de notes pratiques et de 86 tableaux, cet ouvrage aborde les sujets suivants : fonctions et pratiques d'une maison d'édition; organisation et gestion de la fonction éditoriale; les états financiers comme moyen d'information des gestionnaires; la gestion efficace d'une entreprise d'édi ... more

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The Business of Book Publishing: A Management Training Course

Mike Hauser (ed.)

Paris; London: UNESCO;Book House Training Centre (1990), xi, 164 pp.

"This book is a compilation of tutors' notes, lesson material and handouts from a management training course conducted since 1985 by UNESCO with great success in countries around the world. While gaining accessibility through its production in a book format, it retains the spirit of the original tea ... more

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Gerer au quotidien la charite

Benu Efoevi Penoukou

Lomé: Caritas Internationalis Secretariat Afrique Francophone (CISAF) (1990), 286 pp.

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El televidente creativo: Manual educativo en recepción activa para campesinos

Valerio Fuenzalida, María Elena Hermosilla

Santiago de Chile: CENECA (1989), 123 pp.

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Guide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication

Rome: Congregation for Catholic Education (1986)

"Formation in the means of social communication is relatively new, lacking at times both suitable experience and well prepared teachers, such that the whole formative work seems in many cases difficult, poorly organized and inadequate. There are at times organizational and technical delays and deart ... more

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A General Curricular Model for Mass Media Education

Sirkka Minkkinen

Paris: UNESCO (1978), 126 pp.