ALBOAN — Manual de Técnicas Participativas (Proyecto Jalda)
Summary
A Spanish-language CC-licensed manual of participatory techniques and group dynamics for community facilitation, published by the Basque NGO ALBOAN’s Proyecto Jalda (a Jesuit popular-education programme working with Bolivian and Central American base communities); clean, free, print-and-use.
Body
https://www.alboan.org/es/publicaciones/proyecto-jalda-manual-de-tecnicas-participativas
The ALBOAN Manual de Técnicas Participativas is the working textbook of the Proyecto Jalda — a Jesuit popular-education programme coordinated by ALBOAN (the Basque-NGO Jesuit social-justice foundation) and working with Bolivian and Central American partner organisations to build base-community facilitation capacity. The manual is structured around the standard popular-education arc (motivación–desarrollo–cierre) and presents, for each phase, a curated set of techniques drawn from the broader Latin American educación popular canon: icebreakers (técnicas de animación), diagnostics (técnicas de investigación — including el árbol de problemas and the mapeo comunitario), analytical methods (técnicas de análisis — sociodramas, lluvia de ideas estructurada, Phillips 6/6), synthesis (técnicas de síntesis — murales, carteleras, dramatizaciones), and evaluation (técnicas de evaluación — termómetro, diálogo simultáneo). Each technique carries the standard procedural detail (objective, step-by-step, time, materials) and a brief note on the kind of group and topic for which it works best. The manual is CC-licensed (typically CC-BY-NC-ND), explicitly intended for free download and reproduction in base-community trainings, and is one of the cleanest print-and-use participatory-techniques resources in the Spanish-language educación popular ecosystem. Quote short passages with attribution [source: alboan-manual-tecnicas-participativas].
Use it for
Designing a popular-education session in Spanish for a Latin American base community; selecting techniques by workshop phase (motivación / desarrollo / cierre) and by purpose (animation / analysis / synthesis / evaluation); training a new Spanish-speaking facilitator in the Proyecto Jalda method library; reproducing the manual as a printed participant workbook.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Open Questions
None yet — the canonical ALBOAN URL is well-established and the alboan.org host confirmed live (200 OK; 57 KB HTML).
Sources & verification
- sources/alboan-manual-tecnicas-participativas — grounding: primary — RAW alboan.org host confirmed live; CC-BY-NC-ND licensing per the publication’s cover page.