Category: Facilitation
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Community Engagement
Description: There have been growing calls for service providers to seek greater community engagement in the design and delivery of services. However there is no consensus as to what this involves, and there appears to be a gap between the rhetoric and the reality of community engagement. This paper seeks to clarify what community engagement […]
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Video Training Program: Mobilizing Community Assets
Description: A downloadable training program based on Building Communities from the Inside Out (1995). The program consists of six separate modules, each lasting 30 to 45 minutes. They are below in fourteen 15-minute segments. John McKnight and John Kretzmann present clear, practical ways to mobilize the capacities of local residents, the power of citizens’ associations, and […]
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A Toolkit for Community Development Practitioners in South Africa
Description: The toolkit is a step-by-step manual for Community Development Practitioners to enable communities to engage effectively in managing their own development. It will assist Community Development Practitioners to facilitate discussions at the community level on livelihood issues, assist communities plan and implement appropriate activities to enhance and maintain their livelihoods; identify projects and/or interventions […]
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About IAF in Africa
Description: Facilitation in Africa is as broad and diverse as the continent itself. Made up of 54 countries, with as many as 2,000 different spoken languages and at least as many ethnic groups, the continent is rich in its many approaches to facilitation. Facilitation practice is also very deep-rooted in many African traditional and spiritual […]
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Learning Solutions: Online Facilitation Cards
Description: These facilitation cards are a set of printable and digital images that can be used to visually facilitate meetings, workshops, and learning events taking place online. There are three versions that can be used separately or combined, depending on the context:■ Smartphone version (people show their phone screens to their webcams).■ Print-out version (Printing […]
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Integral Facilitator® Programs
Description: The Integral Facilitator® training is a series of programs that combines the principles of masterful facilitation with leading insights from the fields of developmental psychology and Zen awareness together in an Integral approach. Quick Tip: A unique but paid training program that could give new insights into facilitation, especially those who are more experienced. […]
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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Facilitation Guide
Description: It is important to note that this is a living document. What you are reading now is a rough draft, and it is only one version of how this could be done. The current tour team is making many changes as they work with different groups and integrate lessons and feedback, and surely you […]
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Strengthening the Role of Women with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: A Facilitator’s Guide
Description: Working in partnership with regional networks of women with disabilities, the WRC has developed a Facilitator’s Guide for training, entitled Strengthening the Role of Women with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action. Designed for women leaders of organizations of persons with disabilities (DPOs), this Facilitator’s Guide helps provide training to members, colleagues and/or partners. It is […]
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Remote Humanitarian Facilitation
Description: This note is intended to guide international and nationaloperational actors on how to adapt and think about remotefacilitation in the context of, and after, COVID-19. It provides asnapshot of key takeaways from existing research, and drawstogether emerging learning and guidance. HumanitarianAdvisory Group (HAG) and Caritas Australia collaborated onthis note, drawing on our experience in […]
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Facilitator Guide for Community-Based Health and First Aid in Action (CBHFA)
Description: The goal of community-based health and first aid (CBHFA) is the creation of a healthy community. CBHFA in action can be tailored to meet the needs of any community or target group. This targeted training and preparedness education is provided by selecting topics identified by the community. Development with the community goes beyond training. […]