1.3: Context – Why it is important and how to do a Situational Analysis?

Topic  Overview

In this topic, we will think about the context in which natural resource management (NRM) and learning activities take place. This builds on what you learnt in Topic 2 about education, knowing and sources of information: the context of an NRM initiative or programme will influence education, knowing and the kinds of information that are important. We will start off by looking into what context is and why it is important. We will then go on to look at some tools and approaches that can help us to think about and analyse or study our context. Finally, we will look more specifically at what an educational contextual profile is, and how we can build one for the assignment for this module.