PARTICIPATORY APPRAISAL TRAINING

Wigtownshire Health Improvement Team recently ran some participatory appraisal training. The training was held over three days and attended by many different agencies.

The basis of the approach of participatory appraisal is that local people are the experts in their own lives and that their views and priorities should be the starting point for any local planning and action.

The training taught us many new methods and approaches to consultation and this will help us to enable the people we work with to present, share and analyse their knowledge and allow them to plan and take action from their findings.

We have recently used some of the methods we learned at the PA training in the Realcare Baby Programme and the young people especially enjoyed the “body-mapping” exercise.