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Increasing Project Impact through Participatory Approaches

This presentation discusses the critical role of participation in the context of IFAD project concepts. It highlights why engaging stakeholders is essential, addressing aspects such as legitimacy, accountability, and sustainability. The session explores the minimum requirements for effective participation, who should be included, and their roles throughout the project cycle. We delve into the resource and institutional implications while emphasizing that participation is not merely an expense but an investment for lasting project impact. Finally, we provide strategies for fostering participatory practices that amplify project outcomes.

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Increasing Project Impact through Participatory Approaches

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  1. Increasing Project Impact through Participatory Approaches Working Group 1

  2. Plan of Presentation • What do we understand by participation in the context of IFAD project concepts • Participation: Why Bother? Reasons why we cannot be non-participatory • Minimum Requirements • Participation by whom, for whom and when • Participation and the IFAD project cycle • Resource Implications • Institutional Implications

  3. What do we understand by participation, in the context of IFAD project/country programme? • is a political act • it gets voices heard • it changes -power relationships • starts with consultation, leads to negotiating problems, solutions, approaches and moves to decision-making and action • needs to involve all (even those opposing!) stakeholders

  4. Participation: Why bother? • To ensure design reflects the real priorities of beneficiaries • To ensure feasibility from people’s viewpoint • To ensure the relevance of interventions • To ensure sustainability beyond the project period • To ensure the project is reaching and listening to the voices of the people it targets • Increase ownership and therefore motivation • Makes project accountable to beneficiaries • Generates learning/power to facilitate advocacy at the top (partnerships) and at the bottom (by demanding political entitlement) • Provides early warning on problems

  5. Reasons why we cannot ignore participation of stakeholders? • Complexity of issues: problems/statistics/ approaches/impact: all need to be negotiated agreements • Even minor stakeholders can seriously affect projects/impacts • Human right of participating in actions that affect people and their livelihoods

  6. Minimum Requirements/Issues • Participation without legitimate organisation difficult • Existing organisations can be involved provided that the organisations represent stakeholders • Affording participation in terms of time and lost earnings of beneficiaries • Enabling participation of weaker groups through access/facilitation/project support

  7. Participation and IFAD Project Cycle SUSTAINABILITY Participatory Instrument for Change COMPLETION MID-TERM R/E IMPLEMENTATION ***** Build capacity for participatory adjustment of design and implementation APWBs START-UP Involve stakeholders/PRA etc. APPROVAL Flexible Design*** APPRAISAL Iterative Process ___________________________ FORMULATION INCEPTION Should not Pre-commit Design COSOP

  8. Resource Implications • Yes, it costs more in terms of money and time • Participation needs to be considered as an INVESMENT rather than a cost • Costs can be dramatically reduced by building capacity of project staff and other stakeholders (instead of only relying on international) -- cascade training

  9. Institutional Implications • Participation is a mind-set/attitude -- can we really train people to be participatory? • Agencies promoting participation need to be participatory themselves -- Walk the talk!! Need for commitment on the part of donors • Be prepared for the consequences of participation: uncertainty, politicization, loss of “control”, etc. • IFAD needs to orient and promote participation amongst governments/partners through advocacy, consultation and leverage • IFAD depends on consultants. Need to evolve long-term relationships, and help consultants to evolve towards participation through orientation/training and periodic consultation

  10. Participatory Implementation supported by: Participatory Impact Monitoring Participatory Impact Assessment Reality Check Workshops Participatory Evaluation IFAD Project Cycle: An Iterative Process Sustainability Completion Instruments for Change Mid-Term R/E Supervision Monitoring and Evaluation AWP&Bs Flexible Design based on: PRAs Poverty assessments Livelihood analyses Stakeholder workshops Start-up Build capacity Approval Negotiations Appraisal Formulation Inception Stakeholder workshop Poverty assessments COSOP

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