PALS Toolkit December 2017 produced for ‘Gender and Youth Empowerment in Horticulture Markets (GYEM)’ project 2016-2018, implemented by SNV and funded by Comic Relief.

More details can be found on the following SNV links from 2016, but it is not known how many of those certified are still practising after the end of the project.

• For more details and links to reports see post : Ethiopia: SNV
• For profiles of champions and details of how facilitation was actually done in practice see: https://palsethiopia.wordpress.com/pals-reports/

Overview Guides

‘Gender and Youth Empowerment in Horticulture Markets’ (GYEM) is  a three-year project (2016-2019) implemented by SNV Ethiopia and funded by Comic Relief. The project is undertaken from a value chain development approach, with special focus on the synergy between all the stakeholders in the chain and improving access to sustainable markets for smallholder farmers.

The overall goal of the project is to enhance social and economic empowerment of women and youth through improved control over assets and benefits from horticulture activities on household level in order that:

• women attain higher income from their horticultural activities
• women attain higher production through increased and improved access to assets, inputs, business development services, credits and markets
• youth enhance their participation and income in horticulture value chains through improved services for cooperative’s members
• the unions and cooperatives are more gender balanced in their policies, organisation and capacity building services for their members
• the enabling environment is strengthened to promote women and youth participation in horticulture value chains.

For further information about GYEM see: Project Overview

As part of this project Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) was adapted with women and men champions and staff in a series of catalyst and livelihood strengthening workshops between November 2016 and December 2017 for:

• Timret Cooperative Union, SNNPR (Meskan Woreda)
• Meki Batu Cooperative Union, Oromia (Dugda Woreda).

Project Reports can be found on SNV PALS blog:

• 180322_Report Timret_FINAL
• PALS Team Meeting Minutes and Discussion Notes_11122017
• 180322_Report Meki Batu_FINAL
• Livelihoods and FALS Workshop_Butajira-Final Report_05032017
• Leadership and FALS Workshop_Ziway MB_Final_May 2017
• PALS Catalyst Process Workshop_ Ziway Feb (20-24) 2017_Final Report
• 1611_Catalyst and Livelihood workshop_Butajira
• 1705_Champion Field Visit Report_Final-compressed

But many of those listen as certified SNV staff champions are known to have left the project by 2018 and may no longer be practising PALS. Last information was that some people in the community were continuing, but this may have been affected by the political conflict in 2021-2022,

PALS in GYEM Overview

PALS Facilitation Overview

SNVPALS Tool 1 Soulmate Visioning

SNVPALS Tool 2 Vision Journey

SNVPALS Tool 3 Change Leadership Map

SNVPALS Tool 4 Happy Family Tree

SNVPALS Tool 5 Challenge Action Tree

SNVPALS Tool 6 Livelihood Management Calendar