- Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania
- Maanda Ngoitiko 2010
- Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of Maasai pastoralist women and childre...
- 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.
- Pressing the Egyptian government for more political space for civil society
- M. Tadros / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
- The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation in the Arab world. The paper argues that in authoritarian contexts, participatory a...
- Postwar reconstruction: enhancing people-led processes
- F. Galtung; M. Tisne / Tiri, 2009
- In nations emerging from war, the immediate postwar period rarely lives up to the hopes and expectations of the country’s citizens or the international community. An upsurge in corruption and a lack of accountability, which freq...
- Tiri
- Tiri is an independent non-governmental organisation that works with governments, business and civil society in an attempt to find practical solutions to making integrity work. They assert that improvements in integrity offer perhaps the single largest opportunity for sustainable and equitable development worldwide.
- How can organisations ensure their SHRH interventions are effective?
- J. Leerlooijer; et al. / World Population Fund, 2009
- Worldwide, extensive experience, evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This tool attempts to document the most importance evidenc...
- Conceptualisation and practice of farmer-led innovation
- S. Rai; P. K. Shrestha / Promoting Local Innovation, 2006
- The Guidelines to Participatory Innovation Development (PID), as a resource manual, is an attempt made by Practical Action Nepal under PROLINNOVA Nepal Programme from which relevant practical mechanisms can be derived to render existi...
- Examining public opinion through national surveys: the case of Solomon Islands
- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, 2006
- The people’s survey (the “Survey”) was conceived as one of the components of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Soloman Islands (RAMSI). A performance framework (the “Framework”) was established that ...
- Preventing severe acute malnutrition through community-based management
- World Health Organization, 2007
- Severe acute malnutrition remains a major killer of children under five years of age. This report advocates the community-based approach, which involves timely detection of severe acute malnutrition in the community and pr...
- Guidance for NGOs on human rights work in the Middle East and North Africa
- A. Bendrif; S. al Karaguly; M. Laghzaoui; et al. / Network Learning, 2009
- The international human rights system has been slow to develop in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. However, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) can play an important role advocat...
- Participatory farming management methods and their uses
- P. Dorward; D. Shepherd; M. Galpin / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- Central to the use of Participatory Farming Management (PFM) methods is the understanding that the farmer is the decision maker and that he or she takes the risks associated with change, not the advisor or researcher. PFM methods shou...
- Tools for conducting participatory discussions on gender equity in Bangladesh
- AFM. Amir Uddin; A. Khanom; M. Boss; et al. / Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009
- These guidelines have been prepared as a tool for conducting participatory discussion and analysis on the social position and condition of men and women within the context of the Union Parishad (UP) regional structure in Banglade...
- Technology-based non structural measures for managing floods
- A.B. Shrestha / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much higher amounts of debris which can caus...
- Community-based approaches to flash flood risk management
- A.B. Shrestha; S.H. Shah; R. Karim / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women an...
- Assessing local governance in Bangladesh
- M. Boss; N. Hasan; P. Tripura / Intercooperation Bangladesh, 2009
- Local government promises to be more responsive to people's demands, more effective in service delivery and more accountable when citizens participate in local governance. This can be achieved through public meetings, grievance p...
- How can statelessness be addressed?
- B. K. Blitz (ed); M. Lynch (ed) / Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009
- Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hurdles to overcoming statelessness ...
- Are African governments and international donors supporting the poor of Africa?
- Y. Tsegay; M. Rusare; B. Ndlovu / African Monitor, 2009
- Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive ...
- Supporting the creation and mobilisation of practial knowledge for social change
- J.M. Chevalier; D.J. Buckles / International Development Research Centre, 2008
- Social issues should be addressed socially and in multi-stakeholder mode, not by private interest and experts alone in processes of knowledge production, planning and decision making. This guide is an important step in the creation an...
- Supporting southern CSOs in their engagement with aid issues
- F. Schmidjell (ed); L. Leyser (ed); J. Mang (ed) / Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, 2009
- This is a Summary Report of a Panel Discussion on 'Civil Society and the New Aid Architecture' and an Expert Workshop on 'Budget Support and Civil Society Participation' held in Vienna in January 2009. The Panel Discussion focuses on ...
- How to facilitate participatory processes with multiple stakeholders
- D. Bradley; H. Schneider / Voluntary Service Overseas, 2004
- The benefits of participatory approaches can only be felt if all those involved have a common understanding and set of expectations. This guide, designed for volunteers, partner organisations and staff, is based on VSO’s experie...
- Participation Kiosk, GTZ
- Website bringing together the experience gained by the GTZ over many years in the field of participation. Gives an overview of the ongoing debate and earlier initiatives of the GTZ on this topic. Includes links to full text GTZ publications
- IDEA Gender and Political Participation
- Provides detailed information about levels of political participation from women in countries around the world
- Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU (IPST)
- A participatory approach to improving veterinary services in Africa
- Ethnovetweb
- This website is about ethnoveterinary medicine, or how people around the world keep their animals healthy and productive, and how development can build on this information. The web has resources and links to sources of information on: (Ethno)veterinary medicine and livestock Indigenous knowledge Ethnobotany and plants
- Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches & Methods, FAO
- Focuses on the nexus where participation, sustainable livelihoods and food security come together
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
- Outlines INAC's responsibility to First Nations, Inuit and Northern people in Canada
- SADC Centre of Communication for Development (SADC-CCD)
- The SADC-CCD is part of SADCs Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) sector which promotes the sustainable and systematic use of communication in the development process. It aims to ensure people’s participation and sense of ownership through communication stategies and different media to identify and implement appropriate development programmes, technologies and policies for the reductio...
- Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security, FAO (IWG-PA)
- Organisation consisting of members divisions/units of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the policy unit of the World Food Programme (WFP), and the gender and household food security unit of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Group aims to encourage cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration, sharing and learning within the FAO Org...
- Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD)
- Participatory Avenues promotes the diffusion of Participatory 3D Modeling (P3DM) as best practice for merging people's knowledge and traditional spatial information and acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and participatory GIS. Participatory Avenues aims: At sharing significant progress in visualizing community-based knowledge and...
- Nepal Participatory Action Network (NEPAN)
- NEPAN's focus is on recognising the significance of information in the development process maintaining substantive programme of support aimed at improving access to knowledge applied to participatory development process. Also, it has been responding more effectively to the specific requirements of different users in obtaining full advantages of the opportunities provided by new information technol...
