India and Participation
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
Check the most recent online additions, updated daily.
Content from selected partners can be found by following the relevant links in the central panel below - or check out our editor's selection of the best sector specific information from other websites.
- Decentralisation without participation: India's health policy lacks a participatory methodology
- U. Kumar / Global Development Network, 2001
- This paper focuses on the importance of decentralisation in health care provision and how community participation could become a way forward to provide health care to all, using participatory rural appraisal. The paper outlines...
- Community groups see participatory development as undermining their contol over institions and livelihood resources
- L. Lohmann / The Corner House, UK, 1998
- Deals with the politics of participation in the Western Ghats Forestry Project (India). The author indicates that many community groups see the new vogue among development agencies for forms of participatory development as attempts to...
- The need to see technology transfer in a holistic light
- A. Hall; N. Clark; S. Taylor; V. R. Sulaiman / Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2001
- This paper demonstrates the way in which institutional learning has been adopted by a post-harvest technology research project in India to cope with the institutional constraints associated with various public agencies. It also aims t...
- Removing ropes, attaching strings : institutional arrangements to provide water
- Arun Agrawal / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1993
- The case of Dodopani (India) illustrates that governments often attempt sweeping technically oriented changes to improve standards of living without paying adequate attention to the political and institutional context that defines rur...
- Why paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries
- Raymond S. Hartman; Mainul Huq; David Wheeler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Clean production is not uncommon even in very poor countries such as Bangladesh. Even when there is no formal regulation of pollution, large, efficient, domestically owned plants operating near relatively affluent communities have dem...
- Integrating development and environmental protection: can ecodevelopment work?
- R. Badola / Unasylva, FAO, 1999
- The author critically examines recent participatory ecodevelopment approaches to the management of Protected Areas in India. This article highlights weaknesses and offers recommendations for ways forward. Weaknesses of ecodevel...
- How to mobilise local institutions for a transformative feminist politics
- S. Sen / Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
- This paper explores the negotiation and conflict between patriarchy and the women's movement, and its role in the constitution of the nation-state in India. It examines two debates that have rocked the women's movement and Indian soci...
- Irrigation cannot simply be understood in narrowly economic terms: highlighting context, history and moralitities
- D. Mosse / School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2000
- This paper attempts a long view of decentralisation in irrigation management in parts of south India. In doing so, it has attempted to place present day ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ in perspective, particularly by d...
- Political capital in the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
- P. Baumann / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Looks at the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as an analytical framework. The potential of SL was examined by applying the framework for analysis in a research project on decentralised natural resource management in India.The SL ...
- Poor people's view of the good life
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 1999
- Also known as Consultations With The Poor, the report looks at poor people's definition of what comprises a good life, and the role of poverty. Based on interviews conducted using participative methods. The Consultations study ...
- 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...
