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Grassroots activists and researchers build here on their varied personal experiences to clarify and strengthen the effectiveness of participatory group action in overcoming impoverishment, oppression and exclusion. The authors focus on core issues of social and political organisation and change, such as: relations between self and other; group identity and solidarity; honouring different types of knowledge systems; and organising against vested positions and unjust power structure. Integrative chapters present an alternative development paradigm, offer techniques of coalition-building in diversity, and propose a conceptual design of values and eythical principles towards socially just, sustainable development.

A collection of case studies presented to a seminar on participatory development organised by the OECD Development Centre. The papers reflect the authors' wide range of experience in NGOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and other organisations.