Dr. Jayakaran's work helps organizations understand how communities see their own needs, strengths, and priorities, with participatory tools refined across 25+ countries and nearly five decades of practice.
A field guide for participatory information gathering. Revised and updated 2026 edition.
A practical tool for discovering, understanding and growing lasting well-being, built on the PERMA model — the thinking behind the Happiness Index.
The fruit of the Spirit in a changing life: a self-facilitated guide to the Values Change Index.
Experiences of transformation drawn from development work.
Why lasting change in a community asks as much of us as anything we have ever engineered.
The little things that make up married life, with the author's own cartoons. A QPI Global publication.
Participatory assessment, program design, and measurement frameworks that help communities shape development priorities from the ground up.
Field-tested methods taught to practitioners: clear ways to understand change, ranking and prioritization, and community-based measurement.
Handbooks and tools for participatory assessment, integral mission, and the spiritual, social, physical, and economic dimensions of community life.
The Ten Seed Technique creates a simple, visual way for community members to rank, prioritize, and participate in decisions that affect their lives.
No forms, no jargon, no literacy barriers. A conversation made visible, feeding directly into assessment, planning, and measurement.
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Real transformation begins when we listen, understand, and act together.
Simple participatory indexes, built on the Ten Seed Technique, for tracking empowerment, happiness, values, and community change.
The Survival Strategy Empowerment Index tracks how a community's own capacities grow against its vulnerabilities, year by year.
Read more →A simple self-assessment of the four areas of control that contribute to personal empowerment.
Read more →Understanding a community's worldview, and why it makes a world of difference to development practice.
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