Global Community Action Guides
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Dated: December 2018
Authors: Elias Jika , International Accountability Project , Mela Chiponda , Sukhgerel Dugersuren
This pack contains three booklets on community-led research created by the International Accountability Project (IAP).These resources are focused on development projects, and contain resources and advice that would be very relevant and valuable for anyone working with or alongside an FRN or similar community project. The booklets contain practical advice, including guidance about safety and risks involved in community action, suggested activities and questions, and a checklist breaking down the steps of the research process. From the website description:"Community members, organizers, and civil society representatives can use these materials to mobilize communities, document harms and rights violations, and advance community-led campaigns. [...]There are three booklets in this Community Action Guide:The Community Action Guide on Community-led Research provides clear and detailed guidance on each step of the research process, and suggests activities and tools to build capacity and advance community-led methods. This booklet also includes information on safety and security, and the stories of three community organizers who used community-led research to support community advocacy.We’re Experts Too! A Checklist to Support Community-led Research presents a concise overview of community-led research. Breaking down the process into clear steps from preparation to implementation to advocacy, the Checklist can be used on its own, or as a supplement to the Community Action Guide on Community-Led Research. This booklet also includes links to resources and tools to further illustrate each step.The Survey Template for Community-led Research contains instructions and sample survey questions that have been developed and used by communities and civil society partners in 14 countries around the world. These questions were designed to help communities explore their direct experiences and expertise about the process and impact of destructive development projects, and to identify their ideas and priorities for their visions of development. This template can be adapted and translated to fit different contexts, with an editable version available for download here."
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https://accountabilityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IAP-Comm-Act-Survey-web.pdf
https://accountabilityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IAP-Comm-Act-Survey-web.pdf
Checklist
Checklist for Identification of Farmers to Participate in the FRN
An outline for conducting a meeting with farmers with the objective of selecting farmers to participate in a F...
Poster
Poster: A Farmer Monitoring Network as the basis for the establishment of Farmer Research Networks
A poster/leaflet giving information about an FRN project implemented with quinoa farmers in Bolivia. Summarise...
Reference
Principles of FRN
Working principles for Farmer Research Networks from CCRP. This is a version that is still in circulation in 2...
Example
Community-led Research is What Today’s Development Needs: Global Community Action Guides to Support Community Organizers
An article on medium.com containing information about community action and community-led research. The art...
Video
Experiments with Farmers I - "Why?"
This video introduces the idea of Experiments with Farmers and explores five reasons to involve farmers in you...
Guide
Methodes Participatives Pour L’amelioration Varietale Du Sorgho Et Du Mil: Mise en place d’un essai en milieu paysan
Partie d'une série de fiches d'information et de guides pratiques sur l'évaluation participative des variété...
Guide
Methodes Participatives Pour L’amelioration Varietale Du Sorgho Et Du Mil: Choix des paysans testeurs
Partie d'une série de fiches d'information et de guides pratiques sur l'évaluation participative des variétés...
Guide
Methodes Participatives Pour L’amelioration Varietale Du Sorgho Et Du Mil: Engagement du village et de l'organisation paysanne locale
Partie d'une série de fiches d'information et de guides pratiques sur l'évaluation participative des variétés...
Tool
Tools for Development: A handbook for those engaged in development activity
The Tools for Development Handbook produced by CIDT and DFID.Includes a chapter on Stakeholder Analysis (chapt...
Guide
Handbook for Participatory Action Research, Planning and Evaluation
This handbook is available in English, French and Spanish. It is an integrated collection of...
Guide
Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success
An article from The Foundation Review Volume 5, Issue 1.Extract:This article identifies a set of four counteri...
Guide
80 Tools for Participatory Development
A collection of methodologies and tools to be used to facilitate collective action...
Guide
Participatory Research Methods for Technology Evaluation: A Manual for Scientists Working with Farmers
Abstract: This manual presents methods that enable a...
Guide
Farmer Led Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Case Studies from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
This book contains case studies of projects promoting Farmer Led Documentation (FLD)...
Guide
The Talking Toolkit. How smallholding farmers and local governments can together adapt to climate change
A collection of suggestions for activities that can be used to facilitate discussions with farmers as part of...
Video
Experiments with Farmers II - What happens to designs?
This video explores the details of the way in which experiments with farmers could be designed, using a variet...
Video
Experiments with Farmers III - "From noise to information"
This video gives some examples of how to look at data from on-farm trials in a slightly different way, enablin...
Video
Experiments with Farmers IV - "Farmers are not replicates!"
Replication is often a point of confusion for researchers. Often, researchers conducting on-farm trials will s...
Video
Experiments with Farmers V - "Communicating the design"
Communication is vital when conducting experiments with farmers. This video discusses some of the issues of ho...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 1: "The Objectives"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 2: "Design Details"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 3: "Measurements"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 4: "Implementation"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Video
Options by Context - The Concept
In this short video, Ric Coe introduces the concepts of options by context interactions by describing the more...
Video
Options by Context - The Design
This video discusses some of the issues surrounding the design of experiments when considering options by cont...
Video
Large N Trials - Concepts
These short videos introduce the concept of "large-N" trials. Ric Coe describes them in terms of more common c...
Video
Large N Trials - Practicalities
This video explores the practicalities of running a large-N trial, including how to overcome the bottlenecks o...
Case Study
Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice
Summary: An academic review of different assessment tools, used on the same farms in Denmark. Tools assessed i...
Presentation
Typologies: Wealth Ranking in Project Areas
Presentation given relating to the 'Upscaling Best Fit Maize-Legume Technologies Through Multi Environment Tri...
Guide
Typology construction, a way of dealing with farm diversity: General guidelines for Humidtropics
A document containing guidelines for constructing t...
Journal Article
Territorial Development And Local Knowledge Systems: Engaging local farming knowledge through a right-based approach to agricultural development
A paper arguing that the agricultural development efforts should support the practic...
Reference
Principles of experimentation that farmers need to understand
If farmers take more roles in experimentation then they need to understand the basic principles of how an expe...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Identification of varietal selection criteria of the farmers during evaluation of trials
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with farme...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Ranking or Scoring
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Open-Ended Evaluation – Qualitative Data
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Journal Article
Beyond average: new approaches to understand heterogeneity and risk of technology success or failure in smallholder farming
A journal article focused on the need for different approaches for the measurement and evaluation of options i...
Guide
Designing Participatory On-Farm Experiments: Resources for Training
A collection of training materials to support the design of participatory on-farm experiment...
Guide
SAS2: A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement
A book providing tools and approaches for development projects, with a focus on participatory research. Would...
Video
Presenting Research Results: Adapting to the Audience Part 2 - Adapting to Farmers
A video expanding expanding on a previous resource on adapting the way you present your results to suit the in...
Template
FRN Observation Protocol
This protocol is for an instrument that can be implemented by facilitators of Farme...
Curricula / Training Course
Introduction to models and tools for social networks
Many quantitative analyses in the social sciences are applied to data regarding characteristics of people, but...
Script
FRN RM Session 2: Understanding networks in agroecology and FRNs (recorded presentations and related resources)
This FRN research methods session focused on how to generate research questions about our networks (for exampl...
Video
Collaboration in Research - Research Methods Seminar
In this webinar, given by the Research Methods Support project for CRFS, Lucie Hazelgrove-Planel talks about...
Video
FRN RM Session 3: Making the most of participatory methods in our research
This FRN Research Methods session aimed to follow on from the presentation given by Jutta Blauert at the last...
Video
FRN RM Session 4 - Rapid Experiments
This presentation was recorded for the December 2023 FRN Research Methods Session. It goes into detail about r...