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Facilitators like monitoring the pulse of the events they have been organising and at the same time offering participants a medium where they can share their thoughts, creating opportunities for participatory reflections. This adjusts the flow of action and provides a space to take stock of lessons learnt. In addition, sound practice calls for equal opportunities for all participants to express themselves. A democracy wall is a structured open space where people can post their ideas and opinions. Democracy walls provide a medium for individual participants to express themselves in a free, focused and concise manner. They generate a written, shared pool of reflections which can be used for further participatory analysis; and help obtain on-the-spot feedback during an event and be in the position to rapidly adjust facilitation to emerging realities and changing circumstances. Typically a democracy wall consists of five large sheets of craft paper each one featuring one of the following introductions to open-ended
statements:
• I discovered that...
• I noticed that...
• I felt that...
• I learnt that...
• I would like to suggest...

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