Participation in development
- Processes of Change: Instutionalising Participatory Practices
- This paper reports on two studies which examine the process of institutionalisation of a farmer participatory research (FPR) methodology within the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (Corpoica). A methodological and conceptual framework was developed to examine the process of the institutionalisation.
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- Partnerships for sustainable development – a facilitation toolkit
- ( F. Lelo;A. Masika;S. Wasao;W. Shah / Affiliated Network for Social Accountability , 2006)
- Partnerships bring all the stakeholders in a community together to support sustainable development initiatives and to develop a common vision for the community. This toolkit provides methods for facil...
- Making the most of community based worker systems for effective service delivery
- ( P. Mbullu / Khanya-aicd , 2007)
- Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, tradit...
- Community wildlife management in Tanzania
- ( F. Nelson / Drylands Programme, IIED , 2007)
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As the country known around the world as the home of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, few natural resources are more closely associated with Tanzania than its wildlife populations. By the 1980s...
- Evaluating Indian self help groups
- ( R. B. Swain;A. Varghese / Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala , 2008)
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In January 2008, Indian policymakers released a report on financial inclusion. This report reviewed various mechanisms including bank-correspondent models and traditional microfinance institutions....
- Bee-keeping in Southern Ethiopia: development interventions must recognise indigenous knoweldge
- ( A. Shiferaw;B. Dindamo;K. Berhe;A. Tegegne;D. Hoekstra / International Livestock Research Institute , 2008)
- Honey is one of the priority commodities of the Alaba special woreda (district) of Southern Ethiopia. While indigenous knowledge provides the cultural basis for bee-keeping in the woreda, efforts are ...
- How to promote youth participation through stakeholder collaboration
- ( A. Erich / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2008)
- The majority of the world population is young and lives in poor countries. These young people face multiple challenges like unemployment, the erosion of family settings, the impact of risky sexu...
- How have China's development policies impacted Tibeten pastoralists?
- ( M. Foggin / Plateau Perspectives , 2008)
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Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers. While a variety of government policies have been a...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- ( H. Connor;L. Mqadi;P. Mukheibir / HELIO International , 2007)
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Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to c...
- Participatory conservation in protected areas: lessons learnt from 13 case studies
- ( M. Galvin;T. Haller / NCCR North South , 2008)
- This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- ( R. Degnan Kambou;M.K Adams;M. Kaul Shah;X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic , 2006)
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations ...
