South Asia
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- Learning Document Series 11-13
- 2013
- This document series contains three development alternatives. The first alternative talks about formation of ‘participatory video’ team, what it takes to be ‘participatory’ and how to proceed in terms of research, issue, script etc. The sec...
- Empowering the community through self-knowledge
- 2013
- More often than not in India, urban poor settlements (also known as slums) do not find a place on the city map and its various planning documents. Slums are reflected as black blobs in the urban map, as if there are no houses and no one res...
- Social change through the info lady experience
- 2012
- This paper looks at the formation of groups and sustainability through an innovative model of ICT-based rural women's entrepeneurship in Bangladesh, known as the Info Lady Model. It looks at the selection and training of these Info Ladies, ...
- Higher education and community engagement: innovative practices and challenges across ASEAN and Asia
- S. Gill 2013
- This paper is expanded from selected presentations and discussions during the 2nd UKM-AUN Regional Forum on University Social Responsibility and Sustainability (USR&S), 9th – 11th May 2011. It serves as a resource of innovative ideas, k...
- AsiaEngage Conference Report 2012
- 2012
- Following the Regional Conference on Higher-Education-Community-Industry Engagement held on the 7th to 9th of May 2012, a report was subsequently written to capture the important outcomes and issues which arose from the event. The report hi...
- MGNREGA Consultation Report
- 2012
- This document is a report on state level MGNREGA consultation organised by Institute of Rural Research and Development at Gurgaon in June 2012. 100 people including government officials, elected panchayat representatives, villagers and NGO ...
- Beyond NGO engagement: community mobilisation and participation for sustained development
- 2012
- This paper sets out to trace the genesis of community participation and engagement in development programmes, interaction between development organisations and the community, and the subsequent sustained participation of these communities b...
- Deepening democratic governance: relevance of south-south cooperation
- 2012
- This resource is a summary of the talk by Roland Rich, Executive Head, UN Democracy Fund, given at PRIA (Socirty for Participatory Research in Asia), New Delhi on 30 March 2012. The speech titled, 'Deepening Democratic Governance: Relevance...
- Participatory urban planning: case studies from Rajnandgaon and Janjgir, Chhattisgarh, India
- 2012
- This resource describes a project by PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia) to undertake a model building initiatibe on community based urban planning in two towns of Chhattisgarh, a state in central India. PRIA's attempt was to ...
- Participatory city development plan
- 2013
- The following paper is a step-by-step manual illustrating the procedures and the environment building measures required for makling a City Development Plan (CDP). CDPs are becoming increasingly important, since in order to make a city inclu...
