Prompting personal and team reflection and learning: An adaptation to the Personal Learning Journal process

n 2014 I had the opportunity to work with Plan International on a participatory gender self assessment. The assessment involved finding out what the organisation was thinking about its own gender policy. How was Plan’s vision for gender equality shaping its work and what did this vision mean for the organisation’s own culture and everday practice? The organisation used a number of research methods to find out. These included an extensive document review, a staff survey, focus groups, key informant interviews and participant observation. The process was led by a team made up of staff from different departments within the organisation. The makeup of the team reflected the organisation’s concern that its gender policy was a matter for all staff and not something discrete and boxed into a programme brief.

Publisher: University of East Anglia
Year of Publication: 2015