Laissons les acteurs formaliser les jeux - A propos de l'utilisation de jeux de rôle peu formalisés avec des agriculteurs marocains

Abstract

A Role Playing Game was developed to prepare farmers for the technical, financial and organisational design of these collective irrigation projects within a larger support package which included individual and collective surveys, information meetings and farmer-to-farmer visits. It was decided to focus the scope of the tool on facilitating the design process. This is why it was decided to adopt a tool with a low degree of formalisation. After a short outline of the context of tool application and its resulting functions and objectives , the article will provide the reasons for this decision that were exchanged during the discussion about the tool's design. They can be found, above all, in the support for stakeholders' knowledge formalisation. The tool itself did not have to endow with a lot of information, but was intended to generate discussion in order to highlight the need for defining management rules and to help farmers formulate these rules. The article then will present a short outline of the resulting design of the tool. Since the Role Playing Game was used for process facilitation in the context of the research project AquaStress, its application is first examined regarding its contribution to the proces