This paper reports the results of the 'Dare-to-Share Fair' held in The Hague, The Netherlands in October 1999, involving over 40 organisations. The subject of the event was sharing experiences around participatory approaches to development and learning from the field how to assist people in their development in such a way that they actually own the process.
Gives voice to several hundred children of farmworkers in Zimbabwe, establishing what they think about their lives and their place in society. Responses are divided into themes such as childhood, perceptions of culture and family, health and welfare, education, the farm, and the world.
Recognising the role of active participation in transforming the lives of poor people, the 4th volume in the Training for Transformation series focusses on the environment; gender; racism; multi-cultural understanding; and building participatory governance.
Trainer's manual for organisations involved in integrated conservation and development training and planning. Introduces fundamentals of planning, conducting, and monitoring participatory workshops, and key concepts in ICD.
Handbook for environmental education and communications planners, drawing on the experience of 30 projects influencing human behavriours undertaken by USAID project GreenCOM.
This manual provides a source book of ideas about participatory techniques. It begins by answering some common questions about participatory techniques and describing RRA and PRA approaches in the context of community forestry. It then provides guidelines on how to use RRA and PRA tools and methods in the field.
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Condensed version of the IDS Topic Pack "Using Participatory Approaches in Health", containing a selection of readings on participatory methods and methodologies, abstracts of related readings, and information on other resources.
Local people can generate their own numbers – and the statistics that result are powerful for them and can influence policy. Since the early 1990’s there has been a quiet tide of innovation in generating statistics using participatory methods. Across all sectors from local to national, participatory statistics are being generated in the design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of development interventions. This book, by describing policy, programme and project research, aims to provide impetus for the adoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international development practice. It lays down the challenge of institutional change that allows a win-win outcome in which statistics are part of an empowering process for local people and a valuable information flow for those open to it in aid agencies and government departments.
This book brings together writings on the discourses, politics and practice of participation in development. It explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development. It brings together classic and contemporary writings from a literature that spans a century and in doing so offers a unique perspective on the possibilities and dilemmas that face those seeking to empower people affected by development projects, programmes and policies.
Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues – or fashionable ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How can we use aid budgets most effectively? Are many of our actions against poverty simple, direct... and wrong? This book is an entertaining and unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions and practices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings by Robert Chambers, many from the last ten years and some from earlier, reflecting on the evolution of concepts like participation and of organisations like the World Bank. Besides provocations, there is mischief, verse and serious fun. The book is organised into four sections: Word Play, Poverty and Participation, Aid and For Our Future.
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This book is written by 13 Karimojong researchers, young men and women aged between 20 and 29, of the Matheniko, Bokora and Tepeth groups who live in the Karamoja Sub-Region in Uganda. In November 2011 they set out to research the situation of youth in their area and this book comprises their findings and conclusions. Some of these researchers have been through school and university, others have not been to school at all, and this combination of people who read and write and those who speak and hear is the strength of this research. It enabled access to people, knowledge and ideas that would not have been possible otherwise. The basic principles used are described in a methods paper, Action Research; how a group of young people did it in Napok and Moroto, in Karamoja, Uganda.
A facilitator helps groups of people to enable them to interact more effectively in a wide range of situations and occupations, including workplaces, organisational planning, leisure and health activities and community development. It is an emerging and exciting profession. This book is a toolkit for both new and experiences facilitators, managers, consultants, staff developers, innovators, social and community workers and students. It covers a broad range of practical and innovative techniques from around the world including: designing workshops; dealing with difficult situations; uses of music, storytelling, visual techniques and outdoor learning; processes for community participation and techniques for evaluation.
Facilitators are being called upon to work in international and cross-cultural arenas more than ever before to help groups identify and achieve their goals and resolve differences in areas including governance, education, health and community development. This book provides a practical approach for facilitators needing to enhance their skills when working with people from a diverse range of backgrounds. Using a step-by-step approach, it takes the facilitator through ideas, processes, models and frameworks that are designed to assist with the preparation, facilitation and evaluation of workshops. Based on research and facilitator experiences, it advises how to adapt learning materials to suit specific situations and offers techniques to deal with conflict.
Yoland Wadsworth’s proposition is that the act of inquiry is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously learning, improving and changing. This book explores this approach, a basic theory of human understanding and action. By delving into the cyclical processes of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, the author identifies how new life might be brought to what we do, both professionally and personally. She also emphasises that the evaluative process needs to drive progress towards social justice and human betterment.