Table 2.
Schedule of workshops and PAR tools and techniques
| Community-based group (priority health topic) | Focus topic (tools and techniques) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | |
| A (AOD) | Workshop 1: Topic selection (ranking and voting) | Workshop 4: Causes/ Impacts (problem tree) | Workshop 7: Impacts/Actors (Venn diagram) | Workshop 10: Action (action pathways) | Workshop 13: Causes/ Impacts (problem tree) | Workshop 14: Impacts/Actors (Venn diagram) | Workshop 15: Action (action pathways) | Workshop 16: Reflection and next steps (facilitated discussion) |
| B (AOD) | Workshop 2: Topic selection (ranking and voting) | Workshop 5: Causes/ Impacts (problem tree) | Workshop 8: Impacts/Actors (Venn diagram) | Workshop 11: Action (action pathways) | ||||
| C (Water)* | Workshop 3: Topic selection (ranking and voting) | Workshop 6: Causes/ Impacts (problem tree) | Workshop 9: Impacts/Actors (Venn diagram) | Workshop 12: Action (action pathways) | ||||
| Ranking and voting | To identify priority health topics of relevance to the community. A list of health priorities was developed during the discussion, after which participants voted for the topics of highest relevance using adhesive stickers. The voting progressed through two rounds with discussion and agreement at the end. | |||||||
| Problem tree | To understand and ‘unpack’ nominated topics from different perspectives. Through facilitated discussions using a tree diagram visible to all, participants identified cause-and-effect relationships at various levels from root (tree roots) to intermediary causes (trunk and branches) and consequences and other effects (tree pods), building subjective perspectives into shared accounts through consensus. | |||||||
| Venn diagrams | To understand impacts and actors involved. Collective account developed with Venn diagram made from cardboard circles of different sizes and colours to indicate relationships and interactions between various actors and institutions, identifying internal and external organisations active in the topic and how they related to one another in terms of contact and collaboration. | |||||||
| Action pathways | To articulate overall goal(s) to address the issues identified and visualise and depict stepwise actions and actors to achieve these. The action pathway was collectively developed to represent moving towards a desired goal via a series of interconnected steps and events. | |||||||
| Photovoice | To visually convey lived experience. Participants given basic training in photography, research ethics and digital cameras to take photographs illustrating the topic or condition as it existed in the physical environments. Photographs presented and discussed in meetings, and captions developed to describe what images conveyed. | |||||||
| Facilitated discussion | On reflections and next steps: to reflect on experiences, outputs and how the process should be carried forward to engage government and non-government organisations. Participants discussed differences and similarities between the workshop outputs, cross-verified each other’s outputs and reflected on the process and future development | |||||||
* Results presented elsewhere. Source [69].