Participatory methodology
Latest Additions
Food security in India: the case for an integrated approach
- ( A. Mukherjee / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2008)
-
This paper examines the debate which surrounds the uni-sectoral versus inter-sectoral, or integrated, approach as a strategy for food security and poverty alleviation.
Looking at the is... Exploring food insecurity in India through the eyes of those who suffer it
- ( A. Mukherjee / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2007)
-
This paper examines food insecurity within contemporary India at the micro level. It focuses on the temporal dimension of food insecurity in terms of seasonality and inter-month variations in food ...
- Do you need questionnaires for numbers in research?
- ( R. Chambers, / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
- Aimed at researchers and those who fund or sponsor research, this paper attempts to bring up-to-date a review and overview of the state of the research field. It particularly challenges the normal ref...
- Are methodologies, mindsets and concepts on poverty research all interlinked?
- ( R. Chambers / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
- This paper explores linkages between methodologies, mindsets, concepts and perceptions in research on poverty. Three streams, syndromes or paradigms are described; non-contextual and quantitative, qua...
Evaluating action learning
- ( I. Goldman;R. Searle-Mbullu / Khanya-aicd , 2008)
-
Action learning is about learning from actions and applying what is learnt back into the next experience, an ongoing process. This briefing presents lessons of how to use action learning to improve...
Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania: the FARM-Africa model
- ( R. Ewbank;A. Kasindei;F. Kimaro;S. Slaa / Farm Africa , 2007)
-
This document reviews the demand-led participatory model of farmer research and extension implemented by FARM-Africa Tanzania in their Babati Rural Development Research project (2000–200...
- Where is the Farmer First agenda twenty years on?
- ( Future Agricultures Consortium , 2007)
-
Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of t...
What can poor people teach us about development?: lessons from PPAs in India
- ( S. Viswanathan;R. Srivastava / Asian Development Bank , 2007)
-
Since the late 1990s, policy makers, donors, NGOs and researchers have become increasingly interested in participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) and participatory evaluation of development initiat...
- 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 settin...
- Robert Chambers on participatory methodologies
- ( R. Chambers / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 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 sprea...
