STORIES OF CHANGE

This is a space for sharing testimonies and stories of change, illustrating how participatory methods have influences the transformative journeys of individuals or movements.
Human Right Based Approach

Climate impacts and adaptation in West Africa

With food production and livelihoods collapsing, how do communities survive? Listen to the voices from islands in Senegal, commun…

Human Right Based Approach

climate justice - a story from community level in…

Actionaid India has with this report "River ecology" documented improvement in the climate as a result of the COVID-19 induced lo…

What would happen if ...?

Centre for Applied Human Rights

Emilie is a filmmaker and multimedia artist, with a focus on video portraiture and storytelling. Emilie has over 15 years' experi…

Promoting Rights in Schools

Girls started drinking water after getting proper…

School: Bishnu Secondary SchoolAddress: Bagnaskali Rural Municipality, ward 2, Pokharathok, PalpaSituation before:School had two …

3Ps power circles

Feminist lense to accountability skillshare

Pls find a video here where we Applied the 3P as a Tool to understand power dynamics between men and women..

Access and control matrix

Super tool!

I use the Access and contrôle Matrix in our communities in our project on Dissemination of Voluntary Guidlines from FAO in Senega…

Focus group discussion

Focus groups in Shifting Power

Shifting Power is a piece of research based on focus group discussions and interviews in communities in seven developing and emer…

Chapatti diagram

Magnifying power relations to filter and pave way…

The chapatti tool was disbursed to the participants from the women and mens' forums in an effort for them to further explore powe…

Access and control matrix

Empowering the Youth Activist groups to demand Ac…

Applying this tool as one of the participatory approaches that can easily extract information from participants engaged and how t…

Who pays tax? The teacher, the vendor and the farmer.

Community Members Knowledge on Who Pays Tax in Ch…

ActionAid Malawi is implementing the Promoting Quality Education through Progressive Domestic Resource Mobilization project. The …

Card sort - problem prioritisation

Developing School Improvement Plan

In rolling out the promoting rights in schools framework, we empower community on what should an ideal school look like. A partic…

Who pays tax? The teacher, the vendor and the farmer.

The ignorance of citizens on who pays tax

In implementing the promoting quality education through domestic resource mobilization project that is funded by NORD, I interact…

Forum theatre

Women Unpaid Care work

Forum theatre

Citizen charter

Community scorecard

Peoples make accountable to Local Government

We used this tools to assess local government (Village Development Committee-VDC, Health Center, Community Public School, State f…

Forum theatre

Public hearing Promo

Forum theatre

UCW

Role play - understanding tax

PRS and Tax Justice training in Primary schools

Promoting rights in school and tax justice training organized by ActionAid - NORAD project in collaboration with partners. Th…

Mobility map

Community access to public services

I have used this mobility map to find women's access to public services and also to find the purpose of their movement. I have al…

Forum theatre

Create awareness on Local Level Participatory Pla…

In our country, we have participatory planning process which starts right from the community level to the village level (where pe…

The ‘tax-pays-for’ photo

photos

Forum theatre

Anti-child marriage

The ‘tax-pays-for’ photo

photos

The ‘tax-pays-for’ photo

Photo action

Value for money grid

Using the VFM grid in Pader and Katakwi

I have used the Value for Money Grid recently to monitor one of our governance projects in Uganda. It was a great experience to h…

Forum theatre

Maternal Health

As a theatre group (4Change Theatre Group) we did forum theatre on Family Planning, Men engagement and the need for expectant wom…

Card sort - problem prioritisation

The first step for the realization of people's dr…

It is very inspiring to see that the action plans that the people identified through Village Book which mainly used participatory…

Social map

From Boat to Bridge

Lar Yaung village is situated in Kyet Tu Yway village Tract, Pathein Township of Ayeyarwaddy Region in Myanmar. It is a junction …

Value for money grid

Assessing value for money for projects and progra…

Th value for money grid tool is very powerful. i used this tool to assess the value for money of LRP program interventions in the…

Forum theatre

MAYO Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 using theatre to address infant …

MAYO ZIMBABWEOPTIMAL INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD NUTRITION AWARENESS CAMPAIGN INFANT FEEDING ISSUES• There was resistance to exclusive…

Balloons and stones

Reflection Action training in Kalangala, Uganda

During the Reflection Action training that was held in Kalangala district in Uganda, we were divided in to four groups (single me…

Access and control matrix

Access and Control Matrix used in Katakwi and Bus…

Using this tool is one of the participatory approaches that can easily extract information from participants engaged. I have used…

Peeling the onion

Peeling the Onion

Dear friends,I have practiced the peeling the onion power tool specified on the Village Clubs, It was unique experience to practi…

Access and control matrix

Access and Control Matrix: Community - Masindi, U…

The participants were able to identify different resources in their communities.To each resource they were able to get symbols fo…

Access and control matrix

Access and Control Matrix Power Tool

Dear Fellows,I have practiced this tool in Gujjar community women to gauge the level of impact of shift power as a result of Acti…

Cobweb for rights analysis

Sharing about Cobweb tool

A Cob Web is used to analyze or know more about women like: participation of women in village affairs, discrimination on women, p…

Card sort - problem prioritisation

Sharing Card Sorting Tool Practice

Natural resources map

Lesson learned

PRA Tools can make people easier to mobilize and it can reveal the difficulties and problems of the area, and what is happening i…

Peeling the onion

PEELING THE ONION POWER (TOOL PRACTICE AT VILLAG…

Dear fellows,I have practiced the peeling the onion power tool  specified on the women  Skill center, It was unique experience to…

3Ps power circles

3Ps

Body map - power within and power to

Pilot Tool - Body Map in Village Kandwal : Pind D…

Reflection:  Three Days (JUly 24th to 26th, 2016) Training on Participatory Tools for Measuring Shifts in PowerActionAid Pakistan…

3Ps power circles

3P

Purpose of tool. This Tool helps us to understand and analyze about the power dimensions at Personal, Private and Public level …

Chapatti diagram

Field Level Application pf Chappati Diagram

 This is the story of analysis of shifting in the of  power scenario at one of the Punjab;s  most excluded and deserving communit…

Chapatti diagram

Field Level Application pf Chappati Diagram

 This is the story of analysis of shifting in the of  power scenario at one of the Punjab;s  most excluded and deserving communit…

Community power map

Community Power Map with women in Punjab, Pakista…

I have used the tool very first time and was feeling hesitate that how i will be using this tool. when I have used this tool with…

Access and control matrix

Pictures of Access and Control Matrix

3Ps power circles

3Ps

3Ps power circles

3Ps

Purpose of tool.This Tool helps us to understand and analyze about the power dimensions at Personal, Private and Public level wit…

3Ps power circles

3Ps

Access and control matrix

Access and Control Matrix Used in Kehwara village…

A group of Action Aid Pakistan and social organizer from Partner organization( Uroosa Khatti,Mohsin Dar, Aasia Keerano,Uzma Khan)…

Community power map

Community Power Mapping with rural women in Villa…

Community Power Map was practiced in Punjab province of Pakistan. Community identified for this exercise has been engaged since 2…

Peeling the onion

Peeling the Onion of (Skill Center) Deeper Anayls…

Hello Everyone,It was first time when I experienced "Peeling the Onion Tool" for Deeper Analysis of Different forms of Power. It …

Community power map

Community Power Map in Kahana, Pind Dadan Khan, P…

I found the activity very interesting. It is very good for learning. I applied this tool in training in another LRP. I shall appl…

Seasonal calendar

Seasonal Calendar - Rainfall Calendar

Seasonal calendars have been useful in discussing community's coping strategies during periods when they are susceptible to eme…

Citizens' voice

Using citizen voice in Kenya

This approach developed from a pilot project for ActionAid's Unpaid Care Work in Kenya. It was impressive how once women had beco…

Community scorecard

Community Scorecard process in Nepal

This video is about how the community scorecard process is carried out in Nepal. We are following the process of improving public…

Suggestion box

Fighting corruption in Mozambique

This film is showing how different tools are used in an evidence-building process. One of the tools is the Suggestion Box, also r…

Gatekeeper tool

Undermined community in Zambia

  The film is describing how a disempowered community through linking up with the Zambian Vicepresident hereby receive some degr…

Community scorecard

How the civil society network KOCISONET in Koboko…

This video explores how the civil society network KOCISONET in Koboko in Northern Uganda use different governance tools and techn…

Participatory expenditure tracking

How PETs and other tools were used in civil socie…

The video explores how the civil society network KOCISONET in Koboko in Northern Uganda use different governance tools and techni…