These guidelines include short checklists to help summarize issues or outline steps to tee taken. Simple diagrams and charts, developed or adapted from actual field experiences, illustrate the specific tasks to be performed in each stage. The constraints most commonly encountered are also listed. Some of the steps presented in a sequence may have to be carried out simultaneously. Others may not be relevant in a specific local situation or may have already been taken.
Participatory projects take time.
These guidelines are designed, therefore, for use by development workers who will be working with a community for at least two years.