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3.50 EMBRACING PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPMENT: Wisdom from the Field
Also, it is possible that once a problem or issue has been identified by the
community as the cause of a problem under discussion, it is then possible to
place that ‘cause’ in the center of a new causal-impact analysis to probe its
importance further. This is how the facilitators were able to discuss the issue of
Female Genital Mutilation with groups in Somalia and Sudan where the people
did not identify it as a primary RH problem but brought it up as a cause of the
primary problem (Sarah Degnan Kambou, personal communication).
Following are two examples of causal-impact analysis. The first one has been
prepared by a group of boys analyzing the causes and impact of early sexual
activity among boys. The second one has been prepared by a group of girls
analyzing the same issue for girls. In both the examples the causes are shown on
the top and the impact on the bottom (as also indicated by the direction of the
arrows).
CAUSAL-IMPACT ANALYSIS OF EARLY SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG BOYS
Analyzed by a group of boys from South Chilenje Compound, Lusaka
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