Koleksi Perpustakaan

Participatory Rural Planning

Incorporating HIV/AIDS Concerns Into Participatory Rural Extension

A Participatory Action Research Project to Improve School Readiness in Rural Grade R Classes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Social Media and Participatory Water Conservation Education in Rural Areas

The Participatory Development Approach and Clean Water Provision in Rural Sub-saharan Africa

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

How do water users perceive the quality of their irrigation services?: Report on a Training Course in the Use of Participatory Rural Appraisal for Irrigation Management Research, December 1994

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.

Rapid Appraisal of In-country Grain Stocks at Household and Commercial Levels: Results from participatory rural appraisal : final report

Role of Participatory Organizations in Agrarian Reform

Participatory Development

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 Development of Weed Management Technologies in Benin

Keywords: permanent land use, weeds, indigenous knowledge, integrated crop and soil management, participatory learning, co-research.

Participatory Research in Asia

Making choices: participatory planning for community-based trypanosomosis control

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