The woollen souls of Chiapas
1993
People working together around the world to generate ideas and action for social change
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Participation and Consultative skills for project monitoring and evaluation
1997
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Course notes for a workshop, this paper examines the concepts of monitoring, evaluation and participation and identifies the main components of the process. Identifying stakeholders and indicators and personal attitudes and behaviour are initial starting points, followed by sections on defining objectives of PM&E, checking the relevance of the project to the stakeholders, planning new activities, reporting findings and negotiating change. The notes end with some techiques and tools for consultation.
Myth of Community : gender issues in participatory development
1998
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The widespread uptake of participatory approaches has created a need to assess more critically if the work is benefitting women and men equally. Community differences are simplified, power relationships poorly understood and conflicts avoided or ignored. The contributors to this book provide an overview of issues and lessons, theoretical reflections, practical experiences and examples of how organizations are attempting to integrate gender into the participatory process.
Publisher
IT Publications
London
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The power of participation : PRA and policy
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1996
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This paper outlines how PRA can be of value to the policy making process by drawing on practical examples from around the world. The paper argues that not only is PRA important in providing poor people with a voice but that it can also challenge the perceptions, behaviours and attitudes of those in authority. The paper warns of the dangers of rapid scaling up of PRA.
Publisher
Institute of Development Studies
Falmer, Brighton, UK
http://www.drc-citizenship.org
el Primeer Taller electronico sobre evaluacion de proyectos de combate a la pobreza rural
1997
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Proceedings of an electronic workshop promoting regional exchange of information and experiences on evaluation of rural poverty alleviation projects drawing lessons for improving approaches and practices.
Environmental education and design education : collaboration between UK and Japan
1997
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One-page note on exchanges between UK and Japanese teachers
Participatory Poverty Assessments : report on a one-day workshop
1997
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Minutes of a workshop discussing PPAs. The participants shared experiences from Ghana, Egypt, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Colombia and Mozambique
Child participation : ethical values and the impact of mass media
1997
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Short paper on some ethical questions raised by children's involvement in mass media
Findings and recommendations of the Community Partnership Center EZ/EC Learning Initiative
1998
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The report is a summary of the data gathered and analyzed by citizens learning teams and their supporters. The teams worked to design and implement a participatory evaluation process to track local progress of a federal program to relieve severe distress in rural and urban areas. The report focuses on lessons learned about the early stages of the program and the use of community-based monitoring and evaluation as a tool for strengthening community development.
Publisher
The Center
Knoxville, Tenn.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/cpc/
Influencing Policy through participatory poverty assessments : a theoretical and practical overview on a changing process
1997
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Overview of the history of PPAs in social policy analysis, this introduction identifies how PPAs have differed from conventional approaches to poverty analysis and the new understandings that PPAs are contributing to the study of povery related issues. PPAs are discussed as part of the growing family of participatory approaches and details are given of their basic components.
Impact socio-economiqe des banqes des produits agricoles de Woldou, Bayilian, Kondian et de Gbangadou
1995
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Description of research into agricultural credit bank in a number of villages in Guinea using semi-structured interview with groups and individuals and informal discussions.
Comparing transect walks with experts and local people.
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1998
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This article describes how transect walks were carried out separately with 'experts' and 'local' people and examines the knowledge interface betwen the two groups.