People working together around the world to generate ideas and action for social change
Using participatory indicators to understand systems change through farmer-managed trials in Bolivia and Laos.
Treasuring the gift : how to handle God's gift of sex : sexual health learning activities for religious youth groups
This manual was developed using a participatory process with youth and contains sexual health learning activities for religious youth groups. The activities are designed so that they require little or no literacy from participants.
Learning to share : experiences and reflections on PRA and community participation. Vol.1
This book includes a wide ranging collection of papers which have been divided into sections dealing with communicating with children, gender empowerment, community interactive processes, approaches and insights, ethics and values of community participation and organizational capacity building.
The use of participatory rural appraisal methodologies to link indigenous knowledge and land use decisions among the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Scaling up participatory watershed development in India : a review of the literature.
Based on experience from watershed progams in India this paper examines the conditions necessary for microwatershed development approaches to be rapidly replicable.
Lake Buhi : resolving conflicts in a Philippine development project.
Evaluating the impact of grassroots development funding : an experimental methodology applied to eight IAF (Inter-American Foundation) projects.
Report of an experimental methodology used to evaluate the impact, in terms of concrete changes to people's lives, of eight small IAF funded projects. Cost/benefit analysis was applied to a wide range of project impacts, such as the added convenience and savings in time that expansion of services to isolated communities can bring to families.
REFLECT and institutional change : the experience of Inter-agency Committee for Literacy in the Eastern Zone (CIAZO) in El Salvador.
This article describes the very recent adoption of the REFLECT methodology by CIAZO. A certain amount of resistance to the introduction of REFLECT was experienced and some of the lessons learnt during the transition period are outlined.