Participatory methodology
- Do you need questionnaires for numbers in research?
- R. Chambers, / Institute of Development Studies 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 reflex that for numbers, one must hav...
- Are methodologies, mindsets and concepts on poverty research all interlinked?
- R. Chambers / Institute of Development Studies 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, qualitative and contextual, and third...
- Evaluating action learning
- I. Goldman; R. Searle-Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 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 the development and implementation o...
- 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 (2000–2005). Farmer Participatory Research (FP...
- 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 technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twent...
- 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 initiatives for the poor. This synthesis rep...
- 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...
- Evaluating action learning
- I. Goldman; R. Searle-Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 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 the development and implementation o...
- 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 (2000–2005). Farmer Participatory Research (FP...
- 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 technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twent...
- 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 initiatives for the poor. This synthesis rep...
- 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...
- 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...
- Empowering marginalised young people and women in tribal Indian communities through participatory action research
- C. Meharu; T. Wong-Daugherty / Child Rights Information Network, 2004
- This report outlines the experience of undertaking an action research project based on the ‘Barefoot Approach’ with members of the marginalised Sahariya tribe, the only ‘primitive tribal group’ reognised in Rajasth...
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