April 2003, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The document contains a manual on conducting the planning sessions, including the set-up and organisation, the program elements, a proposed schedule and the tools. Secondly, it offers assistance in documenting PCP outcomes in form of frameworks for analysis and reporting format. It is designed to support a structured follow-up, information exhange and documentation for later programme implementation and monitoring. It is also meant to help facilitators to focus on aspects that are important in the future, while they are conducting the planning exercise.
Experience has shown that facilitators carry out their community planning more effectively, when trained through a training of trainers approach. This is especially the case, when trainers lack experience in the use of participatory and planning methods. The training basically takes participants through the whole schedule carried out within the communities, including aspects of documentation and information gathering.
