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Evaluation of a Community Based Rehabilitation Scheme in Uganda

The Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (CBR) in Tororo district, Uganda aims to achieve full integration of disabled persons in the main streams of society by undertaking rehabilitation measures at community levels that use and build on local resources available in the community. This paper presents the findings of an external evaluation of the programme, and assesses the extent to which this overall objective has been met. (J Claussen, B Kandyomunda, P Jareg, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, 2005)

http://www.norad.no/ngo-evaluation/evaluations/59e7926c-37bc-42f7-a52a-30cc86f2ee98.pdf

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Evidence-based approaches to crime prevention in developing countries : a scoping review of the literature : final report (PDF)

(Department for International Development) by Joseph Akpokodje, Roger Bowles and Emmanuel Tigere, Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology, November 2002. The aim of this study was to identify crime prevention programmes and practices in developing countries. A total of 91 studies published between 1980 and 2002 were included in this review.

http://www.york.ac.uk/criminaljustice/word/Evidence-Based-Crime-Prevention-Study.pdf

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Guidelines on ethical participatory research with HIV positive women

ICW, 30 Mar 2004. The following guidelines can serve to appraise the extent to which research projects align with principles of participatory research.

http://www.icw.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=29

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HakiElimu Community Governance Programme - Tanzania

The Community Governance programme of HakiElimu, a Tanzanian non-profit organisation established in 2001, aimed to enable communities - including parents, teachers, and students - to transform schools and influence decision making by facilitating participation in school and community governance.

http://www.hakielimu.org/dev3/

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HARAMATA 49: Peace, land, women and power in Africa

This bulletin includes articles on: Women and leadership: Lessons from the Sahel; A new global security: An interview with Mary Robinson; Tanzanian herders contend with new layers of control; Can land registration work for the poor?; Comprehensive peace in eastern Sudan; Pastoralists in parliament; The Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP)initiative; Land expropriations for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline; Pastoral livelihoods in Ethiopia. (International Institute for Environment and Devlopment, March 2006)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=12502IIED

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Human resources for health exist in communities [PDF 59.09 KB]

This paper describes three examples of human resource development in community-driven HIV/AIDS programmes. This paper calls for an expanded definition of health systems that includes, values and resources the work being carried out by communities who are the frontline in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Health care workers live in communities, and communities are providing health care: there is overlap between the two sectors and HIV care, including ARV treatment needs to exist both in communities and for health care workers. The basic proposition is that acknowledgement, inclusion of and support for community based health initiatives is necessary to understand fully where health action is occurring and where potential for expansion lies. (International HIV/AIDS Alliance, March 2006)

http://synkronweb.aidsalliance.org/graphics/secretariat/publications/Human_resources.pdf

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IDS Participation Resource Centre

This website, created by the Participation Group at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) provides a comprehensive set of resources on participatory development, including a collection of over 6000 documents and videos giving practical information on participation from practitioners and networks.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip/information/

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Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods &

The IWG-PA fosters horizontal, cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration, sharing and learning within the Organization and with external partners, focusing on the nexus where participation, sustainable livelihoods and food security come together. The overall strategy has been to launch an in-house and inter-agency mechanism aimed at mainstreaming participatory approaches in FAO's field programme and normative work that have the characteristics of participatory processes as hierarchical dimensions are minimized and sectoral boundaries softened.

http://www.fao.org/participation/

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Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD) - Participatory Avenues

Participatory Avenues aims at sharing significant progress in visualizing people's spatial knowledge (cognitive maps) and in providing communities added stake in tailoring and owning conservation and development initiatives. Participatory 3-Dimensional Modeling is promoted as "best practice".

http://www.iapad.org/

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International Association for Public Participation - IAP2

IAP2 is an association of members who seek to promote and improve the practice of public participation in relation to individuals, governments, institutions, and other entities that effect the public interest in nations throughout the world. IAP2 carries out its mission by organizing and conducting activities to: Serve the learning needs of members through events, publications, and communication technology; Advocate for public participation throughout the world; Promote a results-oriented research agenda and use research to support educational and advocacy goals; Provide technical assistance to improve public participation.

http://www.iap2.org/index.html

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International Course on Participatory Action Research for Rural Development

This three-week course is geared specifically for decision-makers working on rural development. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect upon and share experiences in rural development, explore principles of participatory action research (PAR), and experiment with a range of tools for examining multiple perspectives relevant to rural development with stakeholders in the field. September 8-26, 2008 at IIRR's Y.C. James Yen Center in Cavite , Philippines.

http://www.iirr.org

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Investing in Farmers as Researchers: Experience with Local Agricultural Research Committees in Latin America

This book, available free online, examines the Local Agricultural Research Committee experience in parts of Latin America. Local agricultural research committees aim, with the help of trained outsiders, to encourage farmers to conduct their own agricultural research and to involve their community. The book argues that this participatory approach is effective insofar as the CIAL provides results meaningful to the host community.

http://isa.ciat.cgiar.org/catalogo/producto.jsp?codigo=P318

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Involving the Community: A Guide to Participatory Development Communication

Guy Bessette, Southbound/IDRC 2004. ISBN 1-55250-066-7. This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies to address the following questions: * How can researchers and practitioners improve communication with local communities and other stakeholders? * How can two-way communication enhance community participation in research and development initiatives and improve the capacity of communities to participate in the management of their natural resources? * How can researchers, community members, and development practitioners improve their ability to effectively reach policymakers and promote change?

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-52226-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Learning For Sustainability

The Learning For Sustainability website is a resource for government, natural resource management and development agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support multi-stakeholder learning processes to guide sustainable development activities. This guide to on-line resources highlights a number of topic areas that are relevant to social learning.

http://learningforsustainability.net/

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Learning From the Poor

While the poor stand out in their poverty and deprivation, they are not able to stand up against the maladies of the systems from which they draw their sustenance. The power equations at their level are simply not empowering. They need to break many a vicious circle to get into the virtuous circle of development. DB along with the Government of India supported two phases of participatory poverty assessments in seven Indian states. The studies were supported by the Department for International Development (DFID) and spread across 78 districts and 842 locations covering over twenty thousand poor people. Completed in 2005, the studies brought forth a multitude of perspectives on the issue of poverty. The synthesis report, Learning from the Poor, cuts across the studies to highlight common threads that emerge (Asian development bank, 10 July 2007) .

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Learning-From-the-Poor/Learning-From-the-Poor.pdf

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Literacy, gender and social agency: Adventures in Empowerment [PDF]

A research report for ActionAid UK. Written by Marc Fiedrich and Anne Jellema with Nazmul Haq, Jessica Nalwoga and Fazilatun Nessa (2003). This is a study of participatory development in practice. Looking at four adult education projects in Bangladesh and Uganda, it investigates why NGOs offer them and why women join them, what they do there, and how they and others around them perceive the activity. Lastly, it investigates how far the actual outcomes mirror the visions of "empowerment" so seductively articulated by development theorists in recent years. It is argued that claims of "empowerment" made on behalf of most participatory methodologies, including Reflect, are often empirically exaggerated and internally contradictory.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/litgenempedpaper53.pdf

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Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science And Participation

This book, produced by the International Development Research Centre, discusses participatory processes in relation to the management of natural resources. It is available for free online.

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-34000-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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MekongInfo

MekongInfo is an interactive system for sharing information and knowledge about participatory natural resource management (NRM) in the Lower Mekong Basin.

http://www.mekonginfo.org/

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MekongInfo

MekongInfo is an innovative Web-based system for sharing regional information and knowledge related to participatory natural resource management in four countries - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam - in the Lower Mekong Basin.

http://www.mekonginfo.org

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Mobile Interactive Geographical Information System (MIGIS)

This website is designed to provide an overview of a field trial of MIGIS undertaken in Luchun District of Yunnan Province in southern China. MIGIS is the acronym for an approach to community based planning which uses a Mobile Interactive Geographical Information System in conjunction with, and fully informed by, Participatory Rural Appraisal. MIGIS relies on community support and muted expert facilitation.

http://www.sustainableicts.org/MIGIS%20full.pdf

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Model for sustainable ecological self-financing integrated development for the world's poor.

Innovative Model for self-financing ecological sustainable integrated development projects for the world's poorest. Local NGO's can follow it and write their own detailed sustainable integrated development projects and apply for their financing. The website does not restate poverty- and development-related problems. It provides simple, down-to-earth practical solutions to them. It sets out step by step how the solutions are put into effect. This is made possible by careful integration of social, financial, productive and service structures necessary to create cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environments in project areas where local initiatives and true competition are free to flourish.

http://www.flowman.nl

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Multiple Livelihoods and Social Change in South Africa

The full title of this research project is 'Multiple Livelihoods, Socio-Economic Differentiation and Rapid Political and Institutional Change'. It is based in the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, and has a collaborative link with the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics. The projects objectives are: to analyse socio-economic differentiation in two densely populated but relatively remote (former 'homeland') areas of South Africa to identify the intervening socio-economic, political and institutional variables that affect efforts to alleviate poverty through improved livelihood opportunities to develop a distinctive combination of methods for the study of multiple household livelihoods as they change over time, and for relating changes at the micro-level to changes at the macro-level. Includes online working papers.

http://idpm.man.ac.uk/idpm/mlsc-za1.html

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New Zealand Energy Revolution: How to prevent climate chaos

A report by Greenpeace examining how New Zealand can restructure its energy system to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change (Greenpeace, 26 February, 2007).

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/new-zealand/press/reports/nz-energy-revolution-report.pdf

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Participation and accountability in health systems: the missing factor in equity?

Produced by: EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2002. By Loewenson, R. This paper discusses how to improve equity in health systems. In particular, it argues that social dimensions such as social networking, participation and governance are critical factors for vertical equity in health systems. Produced by EQUINET, the paper mainly draws from research work carried out in Zimbabwe, the conclusion from an EQUINET/TARSC/WHO/IDRC South African regional meeting on public participation in health, as well as from published literature. The paper: * identifies three social dimensions that have a positive impact on equity in health systems: social networking, participation and governance * discusses current issues relating to all these dimensions, namely the lack of access to social networks for the most destitute; the ambiguities surrounding different levels of participation; and the lack of a clear legal framework, information exchange or basic training in negotiation skills for good governance * proposes measures to address these issues so as to enhance the social dimension of equity.

http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/partic&account.pdf#search=%22Participation%20and%20accountability%20in%20health%20systems%3A%20the%20missing%20factor%20in%20equity%3F%22

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Participation Toolkit

Citizen participation in local governance is an important theme in policy and development debates. This website aims to contribute to this debate. The toolkit offers information on tools which promote citizen participation in local governance. Over hundred of cases are described and analysed. The site also presents articles and links for further reference. A dynamic site like this will never be finished. So we invite you to contribute with your own articles, links and cases. We trust this Participation Toolkit will contribute to promoting citizen participation.

http://www.toolkitparticipation.com/

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