ABCD-Training-of-Trainers-Tools-July-2013

Conclude by asking and discussing why mapping physical and natural assets is important.
Instructions in the Training
If you are following the ABCD methodology from start to finish as laid out in this manual, this could be
the same group of three that undertook appreciative interviews, individual skills and association
mapping above, and you could use the community where the story took place as the demonstration site
for this exercise, asking probing questions about the physical and natural resources that exist in this
community according to the knowledge of the person who lives or lived in this community. If you are
not following the ABCD methodology from start to finish, these groups can be formed randomly and you
can simply map the community of one person in the group.
Hand out flip chart paper, markers, old magazines and anything else that participants may want to u
use
to draw a community map and follow the instructions as laid out above. They can be as creative as they
like. When they have finished drawing the map, ask them to put it up alongside the other charts they
have prepared in previous activities. Then, with the whole group, discuss how community mapping
could be done in a community setting. Tell the participants that sometimes community maps can be
drawn on the ground with twigs, leaves, and flowers to mark different assets.
Conclude by asking participants why mapping
physical and natural resources might be useful?
Examples of Community Maps
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