Participatory Program Design & Community Engagement

  • Listening, co-creation and community-led design

    Design and facilitation of complex, multi-stakeholder processes including listening tours, community dialogues, and human-centered, participatory design approaches

    Facilitation of workshops and stakeholder engagement processes to collaboratively define problems, priorities, and solutions — including interviews, dialogue sessions, and whole-system activities

  • Systems strategy and analysis

    Systems mapping and analysis for program design, implementation and adaptive learning

    “Whole system” group processes to generate common ground across diverse perspectives

    Stakeholder and power mapping to surface influence, incentives, and relationships

  • Participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning

    System-grounded Theory of Change/Theory of Action

    Co-creation of locally defined success measures

    Complexity-aware monitoring frameworks

    Community feedback mechanisms

    Adaptive, community-centered learning systems for programs and partnerships

  • Organizational capacity strengthening and sharing among local partners

    Design and facilitation of capacity assessment workshops based on self-defined frameworks

    Co-designed capacity strengthening roadmaps for local entities

    Facilitating peer learning and network-based organizational strengthening

  • Collective action design, backbone support and learning

    Distributed backbone support for locally led coalitions

    Mentoring on collaborative leadership and power-sharing practices

    Facilitate alignment, shared vision and collective agenda development

    Development of common learning frameworks and feedback loops across partners