Overview:
This hands-on training equips development practitioners, researchers, and project staff with the essential skills and mindset to design and implement participatory data collection methods. The course emphasizes meaningful engagement with communities and stakeholders to ensure that data reflects local realities, priorities, and voices.
Key Objectives:
Understand the principles and values behind participatory data collection
Learn how to design inclusive tools that promote community ownership and dialogue
Build skills in using participatory techniques such as mapping, ranking, seasonal calendars, focus group discussions, and storytelling
Practice ethical considerations and power-sensitive facilitation during data collection
Strengthen data quality while empowering participants as co-creators of knowledge
Who Should Attend:
Ideal for project officers, M&E practitioners, researchers, field staff, and facilitators working in development, humanitarian, and social change contexts.
Training Approach:
Rooted in adult learning principles and experiential methods, the course combines short theory inputs with hands-on practice, real-life case studies, group reflections, and peer learning. By the end of the training, participants will have co-created a participatory data collection toolkit adaptable to their own contexts.
Date and time:
28 & 29 June and 5 July 2025, 9 AM - 5 PM
Location:
Vientiane Capital, Laos
Price: 3.850.000 Lao KIP