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Institutional Venn Diagram

An institutional Venn diagram, often called a chapati or relationship diagram, is a participatory rural appraisal tool in which community members represent the organizations and institutions in their lives as circles and arrange them to show importance and relationships. The size of each circle reflects how important or influential the institution is, and its position — how far from the community and how much it overlaps with other circles — shows how close and how connected it is. The finished diagram is a community-drawn map of its institutional landscape and the social distance between people and the bodies that affect them.

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Participatory Institutional Venn (Chapati) Diagram (PRA)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / anthropology
  • Chambers, R. (1994). The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal. World Development, 22(7), 953–969. · DOI 10.1016/0305-750X(94)90141-4
  • Chambers, R. (1997). Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. London: ITDG Publishing. · ISBN 9781853393860
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