ABCD “Tools and Methods”

1. ABCD “Tools and Methods”

2. Asset-based Community Development as a Methodology Discovering Strengths Appreciative Interviewing Mapping to Organise! Community Map Skills Inventory Associations & Institutions Community Economic Analysis The Leaky Bucket Producer-led Value Chain Analysis Linking and Mobilizing Action Planning From lower to higher hanging fruit Carrying out plan Monitoring and Evaluation Most Significant Change

3. Appreciative Interviewing

4. Appreciative interviewing Appreciation is to humans what the sun is for plants. Frank Iversen, 2006

5. Appreciative Interviewing In groups of 3: Interviewer, interviewee, observer • “Tell me a story about a time in your career when you felt like you were at your very best (could be in your current or past work) • Probe with these types of questions: • “What was it about particular people in your organization that made you feel at your best?” • “What was it about you that made the experience possible?” • “What was it about the situation itself that made it so positive?”

6. Key AI Questions • What experiences do you value most? • What made these experiences possible? • How do we get more of it? • What questions best facilitate change?

7. Asset-based Community Development as a Methodology Discovering Strengths Appreciative Interviewing Mapping to Organise! Community Map Skills Inventory Associations & Institutions Community Economic Analysis The Leaky Bucket Producer-led Value Chain Analysis Linking and Mobilizing Action Planning From lower to higher hanging fruit Carrying out plan Monitoring and Evaluation Most Significant Change

8. Its not mapping, its organizing! • I

9. Welcome to your new communities!

10. Asset-based Community Development as a Methodology Discovering Strengths Appreciative Interviewing Mapping to Organise! Community Map Skills Inventory Associations & Institutions Community Economic Analysis The Leaky Bucket Producer-led Value Chain Analysis Linking and Mobilizing Action Planning From lower to higher hanging fruit Carrying out plan Monitoring and Evaluation Most Significant Change

11. Community Map

12. Community Map

13. Natural and Physical Resources

14. Natural and Physical Resources

15. Natural and Physical Resources

16. Natural and Physical Resources

17. Natural and Physical Resources

18. Coady International Institute 2013

19. Natural and Physical Resources

20. Natural and Physical Resources

22. Exercise (Hats On!) • Draw a map of your community • Make an inventory of the various skills and capacities that exist in your community • Make an inventory of all of the formal and informal associations that exist in your community

23. Skills Inventory

24. Capacity Inventory: Individual Skills Analysis Organization Writing Management Literacy Cooking Dancing Embroidery Salt Farming Stitching Compassion Humour Teamwork Conflict resolution Willingness to collaborate

25. Talents, skills and passions of individuals Gifts, talents, dreams, and hopes • What do you like to do? • What would you like to learn? • What would you like to teach? • What would other people who know you say you were good at doing?

29. Individual Skills

30. Associations and Institutions

31. Associations and Institutions Associations Institutions

32. Associations and Institutions(Mike Green)

33. Associations and Institutions(Mike Green)

34. Types of Associations • Faith-based • Gender • Age • Residence • Sports and Recreation • Shared Interest • Professional • Cultural • Self-Help or Support

35. Associations: Venn diagrams

36. Associations

37. The relationships between Associations and Institutions (RCDC – MARD, Vietnam)

38. Associations

40. Exercise (Hats On!) • Make an inventory of the various skills and capacities that exist in your community • Make an inventory of all of the formal and informal associations that exist in your community