Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Olivier Serrat
2011
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Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry
Studies the positive attributes of organizations to create new conversations among people as they work together for organizational renewal.
Involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system's capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive renewal.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is based on two assumptions:
Organizations always move in the direction of the questions their members ask and the things they talk about. Energy for positive change is created when organizations engage continually in remembering and analyzing circumstances when they were at their best rather than focusing on problems and how they can be solved.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry uses the 4-D Cycle:
Discovery: People talk to one another to discover the times when their organization is at its best.
Dream: During a large conference with facilitators, people envision the organization as though the peak moments identified in the Discovery phase were the norm rather than the exception.
Design: A team is empowered to go away and design ways to create the organization dreamed in the large group conference. Delivery: This phase delivers the dream and the new design. Teams are formed to follow up on the design elements and to continue the appreciative process.
Sustainable Livelihoods
The Sustainable Livelihoods approach
Is a way of thinking about the objectives, scope, and priorities for development activities.
Dynamic
Sustainable
Sustainable Livelihoods
The Sustainable Livelihoods approach
Makes the connection between people and the overall enabling environment that influences the outcomes of livelihood strategies.
Brings attention to the inherent potential of people's skills, social networks, access to physical and financial resources, and ability to influence core institutions.
Livelihood Outcomes
Sustainable use of natural resources Income Well-being Vulnerability Food security
Physical
Financial
Vulnerability Context
Shocks Trends Seasonalities
Livelihood Strategies
The livelihoods approach explicitly advocates a creative tension between different levels of analysis and emphasizes the importance of macro and micro linkages.
The livelihoods approach assumes that capital assets can be expanded in generalised and incremental fashion.
The livelihoods approach underplays the fact that enhancing the livelihoods of one group can undermine those of another.
Hydrology
Biology
The flooded forest contains about 200 plant species. The Tonle Sap contains at least 200 species of fish, 42 species of reptiles, 225 species of birds, and 46 species of mammals. Of the 500 fish species once found in Cambodia's wetlands, as many as 300 are now thought to have disappeared.
1.2 million people live in the area bordered by Highways No. 5 and No. 6. The Tonle Sap yields about 230,000 tons of fish each year (about 50% of Cambodia's total freshwater capture fisheries production). Rice production in the Tonle Sap's floodplains makes up about 12% of Cambodia's total.
Socioeconomy
Overexploitation of Fisheries and Wildlife Resources Collection of Fuel Wood from the Flooded Forest
Agricultural Runoff
To generate transparency and equity into issues surrounding access t land and other natural resources that create conflict and dispute in villages. To improve sound management of natural resources.
To enable the private sector to drive poverty reduction, for instance, in the livestock sector but also in other land and water-based enterprise sectors, through open and transparent linkages that are protected by appropriate legislation and practices of engagement.
Olivier Serrat
Principal Knowledge Management Specialist Knowledge Management Center Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank
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