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This book includes a wide ranging collection of papers which have been divided into sections dealing with communicating with children, gender empowerment, community interactive processes, approaches and insights, ethics and values of community participation and organizational capacity building.

A detailed plan to articulate and disseminate experiences in community exchange programmes between low-income urban communities in Asia and Africa. The report highlights the value of community participation and community exchanges in the light of growing urbanization and decentralization of services. The objective of these exchange programmes has been to transform a process of urban development by enabling the poor themselves to be directly involved in planning and negotiating local development strategies that make sense to them and which fit within their existing livelihood struggles. The organisations involved are: Pilotlight in UK, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights based in Thailand, IIED in UK, Society for the Protection of Area Resource Centres in India and People's Dialogue on Land and Shelter in South Africa.

This book presents issues and challenges facing those facilitating children's and young people's participation. The contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds including NGOs in development, children's agencies, academic insitutions and governments and provide case studies from the UK, Eastern Europe, asia, Africa, the Carribean and central and north America. Chapter 1 gives and overview to the main issues and concepts and chapters 2-7 each expand on a particular theme. The main issues discussed and analysed include: the ethical dilemmas facing professionals, the process and methods used in partlicipatory research and planning with children, the inter-relationship between culture and children's participation, considerations for instiutions and the key qualities of a participation programme.

Chapter 3 reviews literature on projects aiming at aducational change and the processes of their scaling up. After defining terms and examining the aims and process of educational change, the chapter looks at model from different projects in Indonesia and China. Chapter 4 reviews the development of the child-to-child approach, various degrees of children's participation and issues of going to scale.

Lok Jumbish was launched in 1989 to work at a grassroots level, mobilizing support and participation of the rural community in the programme of primary education. By revitalising the existing programme it aims to be more responsive and inclusive of all, and school mapping is considered to be a powerful instrument in the pursuit of these objectives. The purpose of the study is to analyse and understand the way school mapping has been conceptualised and implemented under Lok Jumbish and its relationship with the goal of achieving universal primary education in Rajasthan.