We have gathered many beautiful moments during our journey
Participatory Well-being Ranking: Community members are using beans to collaboratively score and rank households (listed by name in the rows) against specific criteria. This exercise enables a transparent, community-led analysis of relative wealth and vulnerability.
Participatory Resource Map: The map includes physical features like the river, roads, and houses, alongside key natural resources (e.g., land and vegetation). Since the map reflects the community’s own perspective rather than precise scale, it is used to identify local opportunities, threats, and resource management issues, serving as a basis for community-led planning and development.
Participatory Social Mapping and Wealth Ranking: Community members created this map to visually assess and categorize households based on local criteria. The different symbols on the houses represent household wealth, categorized specifically by the number of livestock owned, ensuring a community-defined profile of well-being.
Participatory Matrix Ranking: A community-led exercise to systematically score and evaluate local institutions and services against criteria defined by participants, providing transparent data for governance reform.
Participatory Institutional Analysis: A Venn Diagram exercise conducted with local community members to map the relative importance and influence of key institutions, individuals, and external organizations (e.g., government services and development agencies). The size of each shape indicates perceived importance, and the overlap reveals the degree of cooperation and shared functions in local decision-making processes.
Seasonal Calendar: Community members mapped the annual cycle of local fruits and crops using this participatory matrix to visualize harvest times and seasonal production patterns. This exercise documents crucial local ecological knowledge for resource planning
