Approaches to participation
- 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...
- Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation of Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
- A. Lemaire / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
- This case study highlights the learning from participatory video workshops set up to monitor and evaluate (M&E;) action research projects run by Community Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA). From 2008-11, CBAA tested tools for comm...
- 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...
- 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...
- Enhancing accountability and engaging citizens in Brazil
- A. Cornwall; J. Romano; A. Shankland / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- Since the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the mid-1980s, democratic innovation has become the hallmark of this vibrant and populous country. Innovations in participatory governance, such as participatory budgeting and p...
- Informal accountability in Bangladesh
- N. Hossain / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
- The massive expansion of social service provision in the 1990s in Bangladesh has meant the state is now a larger presence in the lives of the poor. The terms though of its interaction with those citizens remain largely unreformed, mor...
- Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
- A. Holloway; R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb, 2008
- Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professio...
- Is participatory conservation a solution for protected areas?
- T. Haller; M. Galvin / NCCR North South, 2009
- This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. ...
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder funding mechanisms for agricultural R&D
- W. Heemskerk (ed); B. Wennink (ed) / Royal Tropical Institute, 2005
- This bulletin focuses on experiences in Tanzania and Benin with stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural research and development. This paper discusses how the reorganisation of funding mechanisms for agricultural innova...
- Tool for promoting treatment preparedness in HIV/AIDS communities
- S. Page; B. Gbaguidi; F. Nyakanda 2009
- Community learning processes are crucial to increasing resilience to HIV/AIDS in Africa’s remote rural areas. This paper describes experiences of using the “How to Live Positively” discovery-learning process to empow...
- Can participation reduce corruption?
- A. L. Jameel / Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2008
- What is the best way to control and measure corruption? This paper outlines a method devised by the author which measures corruption and uses it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on an Indonesian road-building pr...
- 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.
