Approaches to participation
- Local contexts influence the outcomes of participatory budgeting
- Warwick E. Murray; T. Wood / Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam, 2007
- This paper presents a comparative evaluation of participatory budgeting experience in the cities of Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte in Brazil with the objective of finding out how local circumstances or geographies can affect outcomes...
- Roma participation in programming
- Z. De Sas Kropiwnicki; F. Deans / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
- Are Roma included well enough in current approaches to monitoring and evaluation? This report provides a broad overview of the current monitoring and evaluation policy at the levels of standard setting and compliance, indicator settin...
- Robert Chambers on participatory methodologies
- R. Chambers / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- This paper looks at the evolution of PRA (participatory rural appraisal) and the more inclusive PLA (participatory learning and action). It explains how these participatory methodologies have spread and have been applied. Moreover the...
- Making community-based and -driven development more effective
- G. Mansuri; V. Rao / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2004
- Does community participation improve the targeting of private benefits? Are the public goods created by community participation projects better targeted to the poor? Are they of higher quality, or better managed, than similar public g...
- How can farmers be linked more closely to research?
- A. Negassi; Y. Beyene / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007
- This document presents the results of a workshop held by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) in Eritrea from the 4th-5th December 2003, which aimed to identify problems and recommend solutions in bridging the gap between research, e...
- How can civil society promote citizenship in violent contexts?
- J. Pearce / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- This paper discusses the role civil society can play in situations of violent conflict. In particular it explores the role of civil society organisations in Colombia and Guatemala and how these organisations can build citizenship and ...
- International Conference on Engaging Communities
- 2005 UN and Queensland government organised conference resulting in the Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement.
- Bringing participation into international financial institutions
- R. Tandon, / Asian Development Bank, 2007
- How can participatory principles and methods be translated into large-scale, national development programmes? This paper explains that for participation to be made a meaningful and sustainable process for achieving concrete resul...
- Supporting the promotion of young people’s sexual health
- P. Tipton; W. Finger; K. Henry Shears / Family Health International, 2007
- Are reproductive health and HIV prevention outcomes for young people better when a project makes an explicit effort to involve community members? This briefing paper summarises the findings of a range of studies that have sought to in...
- Assessment of joint forest planning and management in India
- S. Lele; A.K. Kiran Kumar; P. Shivashankar / Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2005
- Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become the key concept through which forest generation activities are being implemented in most parts of India. This study uncovers several lacunae in the way Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFP...
- Robert Chambers on participatory methodologies
- R. Chambers / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- This paper looks at the evolution of PRA (participatory rural appraisal) and the more inclusive PLA (participatory learning and action). It explains how these participatory methodologies have spread and have been applied. Moreover the...
- Making community-based and -driven development more effective
- G. Mansuri; V. Rao / International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2004
- Does community participation improve the targeting of private benefits? Are the public goods created by community participation projects better targeted to the poor? Are they of higher quality, or better managed, than similar public g...
- How can farmers be linked more closely to research?
- A. Negassi; Y. Beyene / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007
- This document presents the results of a workshop held by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) in Eritrea from the 4th-5th December 2003, which aimed to identify problems and recommend solutions in bridging the gap between research, e...
- How can civil society promote citizenship in violent contexts?
- J. Pearce / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- This paper discusses the role civil society can play in situations of violent conflict. In particular it explores the role of civil society organisations in Colombia and Guatemala and how these organisations can build citizenship and ...
- Bringing participation into international financial institutions
- R. Tandon, / Asian Development Bank, 2007
- How can participatory principles and methods be translated into large-scale, national development programmes? This paper explains that for participation to be made a meaningful and sustainable process for achieving concrete resul...
- Supporting the promotion of young people’s sexual health
- P. Tipton; W. Finger; K. Henry Shears / Family Health International, 2007
- Are reproductive health and HIV prevention outcomes for young people better when a project makes an explicit effort to involve community members? This briefing paper summarises the findings of a range of studies that have sought to in...
- Assessment of joint forest planning and management in India
- S. Lele; A.K. Kiran Kumar; P. Shivashankar / Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, 2005
- Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become the key concept through which forest generation activities are being implemented in most parts of India. This study uncovers several lacunae in the way Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFP...
- Joining forces with the poor for the eradication of chronic poverty
- X. Godinot; Q. Wodon / World Bank, 2006
- The case studies compiled in this book emerged from an October 2005 World Bank seminar on extreme poverty. They show how helping the very poor to emerge from poverty requires not only extra public resources, effort, and time, but also...
- The benefits and pitfalls of participation initiatives
- Involve, 2005
- How easy is it to establish what a participation initiative has really achieved - or simply whether the benefits were really worth the time and money? This document introduces a framework for thinking about the costs and value of part...
- Practice In Participation
- Participatory portal for community-based practices
- The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)
- Sustainable development in Africa
- International Conference on Engaging Communities
- 2005 UN and Queensland government organised conference resulting in the Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement.
