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participants when they took the role of the project designers,helped ensure that the document they arrived at was stillfocused <strong>on</strong> the people that the project was directed at and wasthus ‘culturally sound’.In facilitating this activity it may be desirable to leave theparticipants to their own devices to see what they can come upwith. However, with groups that may be finding the veryc<strong>on</strong>cept of designing a log frame document intimidating, itcould be helpful to suggest that they begin the activity with‘problem trees’.90The following notes comprise a combinati<strong>on</strong> of criticisms voicedin using the log frame as a planning tool and problems in theactual use of it; and suggesti<strong>on</strong>s to counter these problems toensure it can be used as an effective tool.How to ensure participati<strong>on</strong> so that the log frame is‘people friendly’ and process orientedThe comm<strong>on</strong> criticisms of the log frame as a ‘useful’ tool are(1) It is not ‘participatory’ because it is devised by a group ofproject planners that are far removed from the endbeneficiaries.(2) It is abstract in style in reference to the processesc<strong>on</strong>tained within it and in reference to the pers<strong>on</strong>s resp<strong>on</strong>siblefor taking acti<strong>on</strong> to generate or provide necessary informati<strong>on</strong>.To avoid the ‘pitfalls’ listed above a pragmatic approach needsto be adopted before trying to design the log frame.

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