A Guide for the design and implementation of a service-learning (SL)

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1 . Participant’s analysis: This is a process of identifying those people who will be directly or indirectly involved in the service project. It is also important to investigate their roles, interests, relative power and participation capabilities .

Logical Framework Approach or Methodology The Logical Framework Approach or Methodology is a tool that allows for a detailed analysis of a problem in order to design a work and intervention plan with indicators for its assessment. It consists of different stages: identification, design, execution and assessment. For the purposes of this guide, we will focus on the first stage, since it is the one that allows for a diagnostic analysis that may be approached from a course. Identification This phase involves laying the foundations of the problem to be addressed, making a first approach to the context in which the project will be carried out. At this stage, we hope to answer the questions: what is happening?, why?, to whom and how does it affect them? How may it be solved? This moment is not only to establish the structure of the topic to be addressed, but also to systematize and give a logic to the project, analyzing the participation, the problem, the objectives and the alternatives .

Possible level of impact on problem solving

Actors

Need

Expectation

Ex: Neighborhood Leader

Acknowledges the need to reduce the amount of garbage produced in the district

Involving neighbors in the proposals made to the community.

As a leader, he has direct contact with local authorities.

Ex: Neighbor

2. Problem analysis: what are considered to be the main problems are identified and analyzed, defining their causes and effects. A good tool for this analysis is the use of the problem tree. Problem tree (example below)) 3. Objective analysis: it allows to discover the situation once the problem has been solved and visualized in a diagram of means-goal relationships.

For this case, it may be useful to make a problem tree. Objective tree (example below).

4 . Analysis of alternatives: it facilitates the identification of alternative strategies that if executed could contribute to achieve the desired situation. Analysis of alternatives (example below)

TOOLS FOR FIELD WORK

TOOLS FOR FIELD WORK

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