1. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
APPLICATION OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY IN BANGLADESH
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
Total Quality Management Short Course
Organized By:
Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre and JICA
25 January, 2011
Shams Uddin Ahmed, Deputy Secretary (Water Supply),
Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives
and
Santanu Lahiri, Senior Decentralization Specialist,
Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank

2. WHAT IS APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY?
In the early 1980s “AI” was officially started by David Cooperrider and his project supervisor, Suresh Srivastva.
As per David Cooperrider, “AI is the discovery for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. It is an art and practice of asking the unconditional positive questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential. Instead of negation, criticism and spiralling diagnosis, there is discovery, dream, design and destiny. It works from accounts of the ‘positive change core’. AI links the energy of the positive core directly to any change agenda and changes never thought possible are suddenly and democratically mobilized.”

3. 6 ASSUMPTIONS OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
In every human situation something works
What we focus on becomes our reality
Reality is created in the moment and there are multiple realities
The language we use shapes our reality
The act of asking questions influences the outcome in some way
People have more confidence going into the future (unknown) when they carry forward parts of the present (known)
From: The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry, by Sue Annis Hammond

4. The “4-D Cycle” APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY PROCESS Discover Deliver Dream
“What gives life?”
(The best of what is)
Appreciating
Deliver
“How to empower, learn,
and adjust/improvise?”
Sustaining
Dream
“What might be?”
(What is the world calling for)
Envisioning Results
Affirmative
Topic Choice
Design
“What should be - the ideal?”
Co-constructing

5. Kakonhat: Visioning Urbanization
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY PROCESS
Kakonhat: Visioning Urbanization
Discover
“What gives life?”
Ward level consults to
identify resources
Deliver
“How to empower, learn,
and adjust/improvise?”
Ward level action &
peer review
Dream
“What might be?”
Clean, Green, Self Reliant
& Enlightened Poura
Affirmative
Topic Choice
Design
What would be ideal?
Ward level plans linking resources to the vision

6. APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY & HORIZONTAL LEARNING
Under Horizontal Learning Program, the same AI assumptions have been applied but the process is slightly different.
Identify best practices
Replicate
through holding hands
Validate best practices
HORIZONTAL
LEARNING
PROCESS
Discuss with citizens and integrate into the ADP
Learn via
Appreciative
inquiry
Prioritize practices to replicate

7. APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY & HORIZONTAL LEARNING
The Horizontal Learning process places a different emphasis on the same AI principles for enriching human potential. Appreciate: Enriching human consciousness through looking for the best in others and framing our focus and our language on the positive. Connect: Enriching compassion by connecting with others through intuition, questioning and self positioning (Newton’s 3rd Law). Practice: Enriching creativity through action to “know” by focusing on the real. Sponsoring innovation and finding joy through practice.
Talk about the bundling of the AI principles …..

8. Poem of Sri Rabindranath Tagore
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY IN BANGLADESH
Poem of Sri Rabindranath Tagore

9. Some youtube video clips …

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