Tips for Trainers : Communications maps - a participatory tool to understand communications patterns and relationships

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Published: December 2009
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Participatory Learning and Action 60: Community-based adaptation to climate

Communication mapping is a participatory tool which is a simple and effective way to plot and understand how children communicate with the people in their lives. The tool was developed in Nepal while evaluating a school health programme, where children were taught simple health messages using the active learning methods of the Child-to-Child approach. Children spontaneously communicated these messages to their friends, family, and community and practiced healthy behaviour in their daily life. The communication map has also been used in other programmes involving children and young people, in Africa and Asia, the most recent being a national Life Skills programme for children affected by HIV in India. It is a visual tool, easy to administer and children in different contexts and countries have used it. The tool can be used at the beginning and at the end of a programme, with an intervention and a non-intervention group providing concrete and quantifiable evidence regarding communication patterns.

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org

Article in: PLA 60. Guest-edited by: Hannah Reid, Mozaharul Alam, Rachel Berger, Terry Cannon and Angela Milligan.

Keywords: CBA, climate change, adaptation, participation, DRR, disaster risk reduction, training.

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Zaveri, S. (2009). Tips for Trainers : Communications maps - a participatory tool to understand communications patterns and relationships. .
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