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Student/teacher Participatory Interaction During Group Problem Solving in Secondary School Agricultural Education

Consultancy on the Review of the Rural Development Policy: Annex 1: Participatory consultations

Analyzing Impact of Participatory Approaches in Agricultural Extension and Farmers Education Program to Improve Household Food Security in Drought Affected Areas of Tanzania

Participatory Rural Energy Planning

The Handbook On Participatory Rural Energy Planning Is A Direct Response To The Ever-Growing Need To Conceptualize Decentralized Planning And Implementation Of Rural Energy Interventions With The Active Involvement Of Local Communities, Especially Women; And Provide Methodological Tools To Facilitate The Process. The Methodology, Presented In This Handbook, Has Been Evolved By Teri Researchers, From A Two-Year Action Research Project Conducted In A Fewvillages In The Gurgaon District Of The North-Western State Of Haryana.

Why We Should Combine Participatory Action Research and Participatory Rural Appraisal

An Assessment of Participatory Development and Rural Sustainable Livelihoods in Zimbabwe

A Participatory Rural Appraisal in Mantheding Village Dikgale

Incorporating HIV/AIDS Concerns Into Participatory Rural Extension

Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning

Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning.

Participatory Methods for Learning and Analysis

Participatory Experiment in Holistic Rapid Development

Contributed articles focuses on diverse facets of rural development and social planning under an innovative developmental model "Janmabhoomi" in Andhra Pradesh.

Role of Participatory Organizations in Agrarian Reform

Introduction of a participatory and integrated development process (PIDEP) in Kalomo District, Zambia

Participatory Development and Dependence

Technical Assistance (financed by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund) to the Kingdom of Cambodia for the Participatory Poverty Assessment of the Tonle Sap

Participatory Forest Management: India

Papers presented at the Regional Workshop on Participatory Forest Management: Implications for Policy and Human Resources' Development in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, held during 7-12 May, 1998, at Kunming, China.

Participatory Research in Asia

Good and Bad Practice in Participatory Research

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: distinction, University of Manchester (Institute for Development Policy and Management), course: Development Research, language: English, abstract: Development research serves different purposes - from informing policy-making on a macro level, to conducting large scale poverty assessments of countries and regions, and planning, managing, evaluating and impact assessment of development projects and programs. Since the 1970s, participatory research methods have become increasingly important in this field. Whereas initially they were used to inform project practice on the micro-level, they are now also used to inform policy making and enhance governance. "They moved from the margins of development practice to the very heart of development mainstream" (Mikkelsen 2005: 58). Participatory research can be seen as the methodological basis of participatory development. However, there is ongoing debate on whom those methods inform - the instrumental practice of aid/ governmental agencies ('participation as means') or the local communities themselves, providing them with the means to conduct their development ('participation as end'). This ambiguity is the main reason why a coherent definition of participatory development and research does not exist. The notion 'participatory' is blurred and definitions differ widely. Common to most definitions is the view that an active involvement of stakeholders will enhance development research and projects. An important advantage of participatory research is seen in the deeper insight into local life and needs. Chapter 2 of this paper will outline the different aspects of the concept and will discuss good and bad practices in participatory research, paying particular attention to the conflict between participation as means and as end. The wider scope of current participatory research led to the need for valid and r

Report of the Workshop on Participatory Approaches in Aquaculture

The use of participatory approaches was analysed in eight aquaculture case studies from different countries in Asia and one from Africa. The main conclusion was that there are no "absolutes" in manifested in the development process. Participatory approaches proved to be particularly helpful in improving understanding of the role of aquaculture in rural livelihoods and in understanding the attitudes and perceptions of the people involved.

PLA Notes 46: Participatory Processes for Policy Change