Field Method Toolkit
Tips for facilitators
Facilitating conversations about tenure needs facilitation skill as well as knowledge of some principles. Facilitators will draw on all their earlier general experience of giving clear instructions, working with group dynamics, keeping people focused on the work of the meeting and so on.
Broad land use mapping
Purpose
To create a visual material to help to probe and understand the practice and concepts of land rights and their administration as they relate to the group as a whole. It is good place from which to develop a list of burning tenure issues for discussion.
Observation - reading the land
Some of the impact of how tenure is arranged is written on the land. Remember that you will need people to tell you the meaning of what you see. Stay alert to what you see as you walk or drive and ask groups later. OR Take a walk or a drive with people who have been involved in local land rights administration, and talk about what you are seeing.
moreWorking with people's words
Getting clearer on people's understanding of terms and concepts they use.
moreCritical incident analysis
Critical incidents are those things that have actually happened that highlight problems or good practice around tenure security, and show whether tenure security is increasing or decreasing.
moreProbe questions
Probe questions take people into deeper discussion, or raise hot issues or critical incidents around land rights administration.
Conversations about land rights administration in community groups
Conversations around tenure happen more easily when you ask people to create a visual material in which they express something very familiar and concrete. The facilitator's task is then to get them to talk about these concrete and familiar things in a way that takes them into the more abstract issues.
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