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To achieve impact in different levels of society, ASSAR used Transformative Scenario Planning (TSP) to engage with a wide spectrum of stakeholders from communities, the private sector, civil society organisations, research institutions, governments and non-governmental organisations.

TSP is an approach designed by Reos Partners that brings concerned stakeholders from different, often conflicting, perspectives together. People discuss pressing sets of problems to build stories that illustrate a range of potential futures that could come from taking different paths. By doing this, the people involved  learn more about their present situation, and what dynamics in a specific situation are serving to help or hinder progress toward a more equitably and climate resilient future.

By guiding these stakeholders through participatory scenario planning processes, ASSAR aimed to build a common understanding of current adaptation needs and past adaptation failings. ASSAR worked in collaboration with Reos Partners to promote the co-production of adaptation responses that can yield appropriate, tangible and lasting benefits.

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Information brief ASSAR 2016 What is Transformative Scenario Planning?    
Journal article Olabisi, L. S., Liverpool-Tasie, S., Rivers III, L., Ligmann-Zielinska, A., Du, J., Denny, R., Marquart-Pyatt, S. and Sidibé, A. 2018 Using participatory modeling processes to identify sources of climate risk in West Africa. Environment Systems and Decisions, 38(1): 23-32. Summary
Journal article Totin, E., Butler, J. R., Sidibé, A., Partey, S., Thornton, P. K. and Tabo, R. 2018 Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali. Futures, 96: 44-56. Summary
Publication in progress Sidibe, A., Totin, E. and Olabisi, L. S. _ Analysing consensus building in the participatory scenario process: A case of transformative scenario process in Mali.    
Publication in progress Totin, E., Sidibe, A., Thompson-Hall, M. and Olabisi, L. _ Achieving sustainable future objectives under uncertain conditions: Application of a reflexive framework to adaptation trajectories in rural Mali.   Summary
Report Alare, R. S., Adiku, P., Ansah, P., Mensah, A., Lawson, E. T., Thompson-Hall, M. and Hoffman, T. 2017 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of agriculture and food security in the Upper West region of Ghana.    
Report ASSAR 2017 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of water for productive use in Omusati, Namibia.    
Report ASSAR 2019 Participatory processes build adaptive capacity and agency and can help transform systems.    
Report Mensah, A., Lawson E. T., Alare, R. S. and Ansah, P. 2015 ASSAR West Africa Research-into-Use training workshop: Transformative Scenario Planning, stakeholder mapping and analysis, and Vulnerability and Risks Assessment.    
Report Molefe, C. 2016 Preparing for Transformative Scenario Planning in Botswana.    
Report Perez, T., Molefe, C. and Masundire, H. 2018 Using Transformative Scenario Planning as a way to think differently about the future of land use in Bobirwa, Botswana.   seTswana report
Report Poonacha, P. and Koduganti, M. 2018 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of water security in Bangalore.    
Report D’Souza, M., Daware, H., Misquitta, K. and Mhaskar, B. 2018 Stakeholder engagement report: Watershed Organisation Trust.    
Report Perez, T. 2017 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of water for productive use in Omusati, Namibia.   Report
Report Poonacha, P. and Koduganti, M. 2017 Thinking critically about the future of water security in Bengaluru, India using Transformative Scenario Planning.    
Report Shalumbu, B. and Spear, D. 2016 Preparing for Transformative Scenario Planning in Namibia.    
Report Sidibé, A., Traore, E., Segnon, A., Thompson-Hall, M. and Hoffman, T. 2017 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of agriculture, natural resources and food security in Koutiala, Mali.    
Spotlight ASSAR 2018 Spotlight on Transformative Scenario Planning.    
Video ASSAR 2016 Atelier de planification de Scenarios Transformateurs (Transformative Scenario Planning) a Koutiala (Mali, Juin 2016).    
Video ASSAR 2016 Transformative Scenario Planning in ASSAR.    
Video ASSAR 2017 Preparing for Transformative Scenario Planning in India.    
Video ASSAR 2017 Transformative Scenario Planning in Ghana - Part 1.    
Video ASSAR 2017 Transformative Scenario Planning in Ghana - Part 2.    
Video ASSAR 2017 Using Transformative Scenario Planning to think critically about the future of water for productive use in Omusati, Namibia.    
Video ASSAR 2018 How thinking about the future improved farming practices in Ghana’s Upper West region.    
Video ASSAR 2018 Preparing for the future of agriculture and food in Ghana’s Upper West region.    
Video ASSAR 2018 Transformative Scenario Planning in practice: Jalna, India.    
Web article Thompson-Hall, M. 2017 Meaningful discussions at the Transformative Scenario Planning table. Research to Action. 16 November 2017.