This article examines the CubatÒo Pollution Control Project (CPCP), carried out by Cetesb, the SÒo Paulo state environmental protection agency. It focuses on Cetesb strategy to involve the CubatÒo community in the CPCP with an unprecedented program of environmental education and community participation.
This guide has been written for members of NGOs who are active in community-based work among pastoralists. The guide's purpose is to describe a simple method that can help to understand how indigenous people classify and use their local environment. The author's definition of local environment includes any activity or project that has had an impact on the community, therefore this method can also be used to understand how local people evaluate development projects that have affected them.
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.
This book considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that community-based participatory research and 'transfer of technology' are not rival models of development but complementary components in a sigle process of effective aid.
Participatory action research approaches have been developed and applied in four main areas: 1) participatory research in community development, 2) action research in organisations, 3) action research in schools, and 4) farmer participatory research. This book gives details of how, where and for what purpose PAR approaches have been used and discusses the role of the researcher and potential for social change of each participatory action research approach.