Sharing Local Indicators with Communities  A set of Posters (in French and Arabic)

Rudiger, Udo; Alary, Veronique; Idoudi, Zied; Frija, Aymen

Sharing Local Indicators with Communities A set of Posters (in French and Arabic)

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2025-12-12

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2025-12-12

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SDG 12 - Responsible consumption and production

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Udo Rudiger, Veronique Alary, Zied Idoudi, Aymen Frija. (12/12/2025). Sharing Local Indicators with Communities A set of Posters (in French and Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).

Abstract

As part of the co-development of a contextualized set of indicators tailored to landscape stakeholders’ needs, it was proposed to reintroduce locally defined indicators to the communities that had been previously co-conceived and developed with them during the CGIAR Agroecology Initiative (2022–2024). This restitution process aimed to strengthen the link between locally grounded knowledge and more formalized assessment frameworks, while reinforcing community ownership of the indicators. The presentation and discussion of local indicators during community workshops aimed to achieve two main objectives. First, it sought to identify which indicators communities consider essential for monitoring and evaluating changes within their territories, and which ones they would like to continue tracking over the coming years. Attention was paid to understanding the reasons behind these choices, including their relevance to livelihoods, resource management, and long-term community visions. Second, the workshops aimed to gather feedback from facilitators on how participants understood and interpreted the tables, figures, and visual representations used to present the indicators, to assess their accessibility and usability. The community workshops and their primary outcomes have already been documented in previous technical reports. Building on this earlier work, the present report focuses specifically on the posters designed and used during the restitution process. These posters were conceived as practical communication tools to facilitate dialogue, collective reflection, and learning around the indicators. The development of the posters followed a two-step process. The first step consisted of identifying relevant indicators within the HOLPA database in Tunisia that best reflected the indicators initially expressed and co conceived by the communities. Care was taken to ensure coherence between these indicators and the communities’ long-term vision for their landscapes over the next ten years. This step enabled the translation of locally articulated priorities into a structured metric framework while preserving their original meaning. The second step involved selecting two to three additional indicators per community and presenting their results in a simple and visually accessible format. These complementary indicators were chosen to enrich the analysis, highlight key trends, and stimulate discussion on emerging challenges and opportunities. Presenting concrete results for each community helped make abstract concepts more tangible and supported collective interpretation of changes at the local level. Overall, this restitution process highlighted the importance of iterative feedback loops between communities, facilitators, and researchers. It demonstrated that indicators are not only measurement tools, but also boundary objects that can foster dialogue, shared understanding, and collective decision-making. The approach also revealed the need to balance scientific robustness with clarity and simplicity, ensuring that indicators remain meaningful, usable, and actionable for local stakeholders over time.