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DOCUMENTATION FOR CHANGE

Latest updated case (May 8th. 2008): Rights based livelihood programme CONCERN Tanzania (in English) Click here to read about (and comment on) documentation processes from all over the world News from other sites Download Learning from experience: A manual for organising, analysing and documenting field based information En español: Aprender de la experiencia: Una metodologia para la sistematización Em portugués: Aprender com a prática: Uma metodologia para sistematizacao de experiencias Other sources Find here a list of manual, methodologies and general information on documentation (sistematización, capitalisation), most of them available online Networking Short descriptions of projects and organisations working on documentation issues

Much has been said and written in recent years about the need to document the experiences of the many different development initiatives taking place all over the world, and thus learn from the successes and failures. Unfortunately, it is rare that time and effort is put into organising, analysing and documenting experiences, for various reasons.

One of the major difficulties related to this aim has been, and remains, the lack of documentation of practical field activities taking place at community level. With this new section, ILEIA wants to encourage more documentation efforts, as processes which will help practitioners learn from experience, and which will help build LEISA knowledge.

Older LEISA issues The LEISA Magazine has covered the documentation of field experiences and the importance of working with information. Please check: Vol. 22, No. 1 Documentation for change With articles on the LEISA documentation processes in India and Latin America, ICTs, participatory videos, photographs and oral testimonies. Vol. 12, No. 3 Tracking change With two articles on indicators as tools to measure change, and one presenting the practice of creating a "village picture book" as the basis for discussing change . Vol. 10, No. 1 A new look at information Focuses on the challenges for sharing information, including articles on self-help journalism, music for commuication and a fair for sharing farmers' findings.

Please send you comments or questions to the editors at ILEIA, at
j.chavez-tafur@ileia.nl

Comments:

Posted by: manish.chandola at rediffmail.com (2008-03-24, 05:09) I am a post graduate student in G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. My major is in Agriculture Extension and Communication. I have taken up research study in the field of indigenous knowledge in pest management. And recent issue of Leisa titled Ecological Pest Management helped me a lot in formulating my research proposal. I am a great supporter of the indigenous technical knowledge as a tool for sustanaible agriculture and thanks for Leisa team for bolstering my belief. Posted by: Bernardo S. Cayabyab/ bernardo_cayabyab at yahoo.com (2008-03-13, 00:50) My instructors at Western Philippines University told us to read articles from LEISA, and I found it more relevant on my graduate studies. I am taking up my masters in this school and your articles are so helpful on rural development. Thank you for all the articles.  Add a comment