Participatory Scenario: planning for community resilience

Author(s)
Addison, A., Ibrahim, M.
Publication language
English
Pages
20pp
Date published
01 Sep 2013
Type
Plans, policy and strategy
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Capacity development, Community-led, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction

World Vision is supporting communities to deal with a range of uncertainties that affect their and their
children’s wellbeing. This resource explains what participatory scenario planning is and suggests the benefits
for development programming. It offers detailed guidance on how to run participatory scenario planning
and provides an example of World Vision’s experience of its development programmes in Copan ruinas
and Choluteca, Honduras. this resource also demonstrates how scenario planning can be linked into World
Vision’s current Development programme Approach (DpA) and signposts to further examples of use
of scenario planning for development. Lastly, it provides links to further data sources which can support
participatory scenario planning.