India and Participation
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- Transferring management to water users associations brings benefits to both farmers and officials
- K.V. Raju / Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2001
- The state government of Andhra Pradesh, India adopted major reforms in the irrigation sector in the late 1990s, including the transfer of management of irrigation systems to water users associations (WUAs). This paper reviews the stat...
- How can monitoring and change assessment be built into Joint Forest Management?
- P.C. Kotwal; D. Chandurkar / Indian Institute of Forest Management, 2003
- This paper describes a system called "adaptive management" and its role in the implementation of Joint Forest Management (JFM) programmes in India. People living in and near to forests in India are very dependent on the forests for fo...
- How can children influence policy? Case studies from South Asia
- E. Williams / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
- This report looks how children can successfully influence policy relating to childhood poverty. It compares five case studies: an HIV/AIDS conference in Nepal the 2001 Children’s Parliament in Sri Lanka (b...
- What factors influence public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology?
- Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001
- This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world ana...
- E-forum on participatory processes for policy change
- I. Scoones; J. Thompson / Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2002
- The release of the report of the Prajateerpu scenario workshop and citizen jury experiment in Andhra Pradesh, India ignited an international debate over the use of participatory approaches to inform and influence policy from below. In...
- Citizens Jury / Scenario Workshop on Food and Farming Futures for Andhra Pradesh, India
- M. Pimbert; T. Wakeford / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
- Prajateerpu, the citizens jury on food and farming futures in Andhra Pradesh, was a six-day exercise in deliberative democracy involving marginal-livelihood citizens from all three regions of the state. Prajateerpu’s aim w...
- Delivery of HIV/AIDS support services by persons with HIV/AIDS
- C. Cornu; K. Attawell / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
- Despite growing recognition of its importance, there has been little research that examines the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in the delivery of prevention, care and support services in developing countries and its...
- Citizens opposition to Andhra Pradesh Vision 2020
- M. Pimbert; T. Wakeford / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003
- This paper discusses the opposition to Andhra Pradesh’s "Vision 2020" strategy for development. Prajateerpu (people’s verdict), has been set up as a means of allowing those people most affected by the "Vision 2020" to shape ...
- Lessons to counter gender-blind drylands management
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
- With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland m...
- How does civil society create spaces for implementing the right to education for all in India?
- U. Devi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing...
- 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...
