Archive for year: 2025
Seasonal Calendar
A Seasonal Calendar of a rural community in West Bengal (India) is included in this blog. This was carried out a few years ago during a Participatory Project Management (PPM) workshop in that location. The Seasonal Calendar was developed using a variant of the Ten Seed Technique (TST) ranking tool, but this time involving a couple of dozen village women using in effect a ‘Twenty Seed Technique (TwST)’ to brainstorm and score monthly variations of the following throughout the year.
- Rainfall
- Water Sources & Availability
- Agricultural Labour
- Sickness
- Food Availability
- Money In
- Money Out
- Labour at Home
- Other Labour
Press the link below to see the results of this exercise.
DownloadThe Seasonal Calendar is taught as part of Topic TC06 (The Ten Seed Technique) in the online, accredited Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program – see link below
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Writers-Group-TST
In April 2025 a Ten Seed Technique (TST) exercise was carried out with the Writers Group, of which Chris is a member. This was a brainstorming, scoring and ranking exercise, where the topic covered was ‘What makes a good story?’ See the link below to the results of this.
DownloadThe TST itself is a fabulous Participatory Learning & Action (PLA) tool which can be effectively used in a community development or humanitarian setting. It works particularly well in the needs analysis component of the project planning process to identify strengths and challenges facing a community. The link to this development TST process can be found here.
DownloadThe TST process is covered in Topic TC06 (of the same name) in the TorqAid accredited Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program – see link below for latest online course (end July to mid November 2025)
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