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Local Societies and Rural Development: Self-organization and participatory development in Asia
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2014
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The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. This book demonstrates how rural people can best participate in development projects when they are collectively organized. With the input of collaborators in the field, this book identifies the local social mechanisms that motivate and control people’s self-organizing activities.
Institutionalising participation and people-centered processes in natural resource management: research and publications highlights
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2004
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This report presents the background and rationale for the IIED-IDS action research on institutionalising participatory approaches and people-centred processes in natural resource management. The methodologies used in the different case studies (India, Indonesia, Senegal, Mexico and other settings) are then introduced, along with the complementary studies undertaken in this collaborative research programme.
The last section of this report contains highlights of all the publications in the Institutionalising Participation Series, and a summary of each.