India and Participation
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- Community participation in water and sanitation programmes
- 2013
- Gram Vikas is a voluntary organisation working in the eastern state of Orissa in India since 1979. Through the process of MANTRA (Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas), it has been implementing a water and san...
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces
- Zed Books, 2013
- This chapter from the book, 'Spaces for Change: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas' discusses the gendered construction of participation in local institutions created by the state in India to promote develo...
- MGNREGA Consultation Report
- 2012
- This document is a report on state level MGNREGA consultation organised by Institute of Rural Research and Development at Gurgaon in June 2012. 100 people including government officials, elected panchayat representatives, villagers an...
- Beyond NGO engagement: community mobilisation and participation for sustained development
- 2012
- This paper sets out to trace the genesis of community participation and engagement in development programmes, interaction between development organisations and the community, and the subsequent sustained participation of these communi...
- Participatory urban planning: case studies from Rajnandgaon and Janjgir, Chhattisgarh, India
- 2012
- This resource describes a project by PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia) to undertake a model building initiatibe on community based urban planning in two towns of Chhattisgarh, a state in central India. PRIA's attempt w...
- Teaching participatory research: making higher education participatory and relevant
- 2013
- This paper argues that inclusion of Participatory Research (PR) in the curricula of institutions of higher education will facilitate its actual practice, thereby contributing to new forms of knowledge production and social change. It ...
- Participatory Solid Waste Management (SWM) planning: experiences from Indian cities
- 2013
- This learning paper is based on PRIAs work under its Urban Governance initiative over the years. It looks into the issues, processes and methods involved while working with government agencies and communities on strengthening local go...
- Community participation for safe motherhood
- 2013
- How does community respond to increasing risk to mother and child? Do traditional methods of life-saving, when combined with contemporary practices in maternal health, lead to new safe practices? The intervention discussed in this stu...
- The intended and unintended impact of conflict on the lives of citizens
- 2012
- This document presents preliminary findings from a participatory field research undertaken in late 2011 to understand the current governance programmes and actors to address conflicts and analyse the discourses around governance initi...
- Issues and challenges in integrated district planning
- 2013
- This is based on PRIA's experience on Integrated District Planning (IDP) as a Technical Support Institution (TSI) in 14 districts across 5 states of India. Later, PRIA's engagement with District Planning Committee in Madhubani distric...
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- Strategic Foresight Group
- Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in spaces where geopolitics intersects with business, economy, society, religion and technology.
- Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS)
- Dalit studies institution
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Development
- Developing scientific research capability in Kerala
- Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
- Indian research centre specialising in gender-based research
- Citizens and Governance Programme, Commonwealth Foundation
- Website of a research project evaluating governance programmes around the world
- Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices, India
- Indian based NGO aiming to promote participatory approaches in all spheres of development work. Supported by ActionAid India.
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
- Non-profit voluntary development organization based in Delhi, India. For 17 years, PRIA has been promoting people-centred development initiatives within the perspective of participatory research. Strengthening popular knowledge, demystifying dominant concepts and promoting experiential learning and people's participation, have been the basis of supporting empowerment of the poor and the opressed i...
