Our team is offering this special training workshop at St. Ulrich, Black Forest, Germany as a laboratory to explore and advance the VIPP methodology towards social mobilisation and democratic governance in times of rising authoritarian policies.

We will be assessing and practising participatory methods for different audiences (from villagers to activists, scientists and leaders) to develop an understanding of the group dynamics involved.

We will also be looking into different formats: workshops, conferences, meetings and community planning.

All participants will design, prepare and facilitate, in coordination with the other trainers, sessions about specific topics responding to the interests and needs of the identified tasks and situations. We shall apply and experiment with visualisation tools following the values of authentic participation.

The VIPP process was adopted for facilitating a workshop held in Kiribati to develop contingency plans for preventing and managing outbreaks of H5N1, H1N1 and diarrhoea, as well as for occurrences of drought and other natural disasters.

The plans developed during the workshop included strategies and action for risk communication. It covered community outreach, mass media campaigns and the development and pre-positioning of information-education-communication (IEC) materials to support on-going activities of the various health-promotion teams, national disaster management office, pandemic task forces, UN agencies and other concerned stakeholders.

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The VIPP manual is available here.

Nuzhat Shahzadi, one of the authors for the VIPP manual and currently the Chief of Field Office and UN Joint Presence,UNICEF Pacific, Kiribati, facilitated an in-depth qualitative exercise with girls aged 12 to 15 years using VIPP.

Kiribati is one of the UN Champion countries for the global Adolescent Girls' Initiative (AGI). A champion country is one that will leverage the power of the UN
to support the realization of adolescent girls' rights. The workshop was organized as one of the asctivities leading up to the preparation of a concept note for the Global UN Adolescent Girls' Task Force which is co-chaired by UNICEF and UNFPA.
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Nuzhat Shahzadi, a coauthor of Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes, shot and compiled a photo report on VIPP being used to facilitate a planning workshop of Afghan Red Crescent Volunteers held in Herat, Western Afghanistan. Nuzhat and her colleagues from UNICEF were the workshop fascilitators. The workshop participants represented different age groups and gender. Click here to see the photographs contributed by Nuzhat.

Our popular manual for facilitators: Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes has now been reprinted with a fully updated annotated bibliography offering the latest published and web-based resources for facilitators of participatory events.

Visualisation in Participatory Programmes: How to Facilitate and Visualise Participatory Group Processes

This manual has been written for the trained facilitator of group events. It is designed to reinforce concepts and techniques learned in training of facilitators and trainers in participatory group processes. VIPP is not wedded to a particular framework or academic discipline in problem solving, planning or training. Rather it is a set of tools that can be applied to just about any group process as long as the intention is to make such processes more participatory
and democratic.

This is a manual for facilitators and trainers involved in:

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