Participatory Program Design & Community Engagement
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Listening, co-creation and community-led design
- Design and facilitation of complex, multi-stakeholder processes including listening tours, community dialogues, and human-centered, participatory design approaches
- Facilitation of workshops and stakeholder engagement processes to collaboratively define problems, priorities, and solutions — including interviews, dialogue sessions, and whole-system activities
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Systems strategy and analysis
- Systems mapping and analysis for program design, implementation and adaptive learning
- “Whole system” group processes to generate common ground across diverse perspectives
- Stakeholder and power mapping to surface influence, incentives, and relationships
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Participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning
- System-grounded Theory of Change/Theory of Action
- Co-creation of locally defined success measures
- Complexity-aware monitoring frameworks
- Community feedback mechanisms
- Adaptive, community-centered learning systems for programs and partnerships
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Organizational capacity strengthening and sharing among local partners
- Design and facilitation of capacity assessment workshops based on self-defined frameworks
- Co-designed capacity strengthening roadmaps for local entities
- Facilitating peer learning and network-based organizational strengthening
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Collective action design, backbone support and learning
- Distributed backbone support for locally led coalitions
- Mentoring on collaborative leadership and power-sharing practices
- Facilitate alignment, shared vision and collective agenda development
- Development of common learning frameworks and feedback loops across partners
