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SECTION II
LOOKING OUTWARDS
A.
PROCESSES AND CHANGES WITH EXTERNAL ACTORS
KEY TOOLS
Activity monitoring table
Basic forms of measurement
illustration
Most Significant Change stories
Trend line analysis
Assessing community capacities
Framework for research and action
and
Identifying key actors
Understanding relationships between key
actors
Forum theatre
Multi-stakeholder role play
Participatory video
Photo stories
Audio interviews
Engagement with external actors is an essential part of putting your community protocol into practice.
Monitoring and assessing this engagement over time can help you understand the efficacy of your efforts
and how you might be able to adapt your strategy to make better use of these relationships. This could be
done within the community as well as in collaboration with the external actors themselves. Seeking
feedback about their experiences and perceptions of engaging with the community may provide
interesting insights and lessons as well. Consider the key questions in Box 52 to explore interactions with
external actors.
What external agencies or actors have you engaged with? What roles have they played?
Overall, has it been a positive or negative experience? What factors have influenced this?
What have they been particularly useful for or helpful with? How could you build upon these
positive experiences to engage with them further?
What has been challenging about working with them? How did or could you work to overcome
these challenges?
From their perspective, what has been the most rewarding part of engaging with the community?
What has been the most difficult?
What are the most significant changes that have resulted from these interactions? How do these
changes relate to the issues and priorities in the community protocol?
What is your vision or strategy for working with them in the future? How realistic is this given the
previous experiences?
Box 52: Guiding questions for discussion