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- Guidelines on ethical participatory research with HIV positive women
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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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- Participation and accountability in health systems: the missing factor in equity?
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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.
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- Resource portal on Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning
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On this portal you can find practical information on how to facilitate participatory learning processes with various stakeholders. It provides theoretical foundations, methods and tools to create learning processes, facilitation tips, examples, literature and links. It is meant for professionals working with multiple stakeholders in sustainable development issues.
http://portals.wdi.wur.nl/msp/
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- Deccan Development Society
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The Deccan Development Society is a rural development organisation working in the semi-arid tropic of Deccan in South India for over a decade and a half. The Society presently works with women's sanghams (voluntary village level associations of the poor) in about 75 villages 100 kms away from Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The 5000 women members of the Society represent the poorest of the poor in their village communities. Most of them are dalits the lowest group in the social hierarchy. This triple jeopardy -- being women, poor and dalits --- affects their day to day realities and makes them constantly vulnerable. But after having formed themselves into sanghams and deriving strength from their solidarity and numbers these women are producing a new quiet dignity for the poor through a host of activities.
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- Community-driven Reconstruction as an Instrument in War-to-Peace Transitions (PDF)
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CPR Working Paper No. 7, August 2003 This working paper was published jointly by the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit and the Community Driven Development Thematic Group in the Social Development Department. The paper was written by Sarah Cliffe (OPCOS), Scott Guggenheim (EASES) and Markus Kostner (AFTRS). Although the paper focuses on Timor-Leste and Rwanda, where the Bank launched some of its first community-driven reconstruction programs in the early 1990s, it also draws from the authors' first-hand experience in postconflict situations in several countries and different regions. (PDF-92KB)
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- The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net)
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Worldwide, people working on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), as practitioners, managers and researchers, are talking about an urgent need for capabilities that enable direct communication between them. Such CBNRM networking capabilities would make it possible for people to exchange experiences, manage relevant knowledge, and support learning across countries, sectors, cultures, and languages, and in this way achieve better results. The context for these changes includes increased emphasis on culture, local institutions, traditional knowledge, participation and participatory approaches, and NGOs and civil society, within an overall nation-state framework characterized by increasing weight on decentralization, governance and transparency. CBNRM Net is a response to this call. CBNRM Net's web site provides a powerful set of broad, robust and useful networking tools aimed at linking stakeholders. As a complete, integrated, and adaptable knowledge management tool, CBNRM Net is presented as a service to the global CBNRM community of practice.
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- Reach Out And Practice Participation
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(Aid Workers Exchange) By Seema Siddiqui, 25 June 2003. Participation is a word that we hear and see in our work at every stage. If you do not include the word participatory in your project document or conversations about the work that you are doing it all seems a bit incomplete. But what does the word participation actually imply? What are these so called participatory approaches?
http://www.aidworkers.net/?q=node/260
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- Venezuela's slum army takes over
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In the crowded barrios, the poor who helped Chávez back to power are seizing control of their own lives. This article illustrates the politicised nature of development.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1015675,00.html
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- Empowering Communities: Participatory Techniques For Community-Based Programme Development (PDF)
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Includes Volume 1: Trainer's Manual and Volume 2: Participant's Handbook. From the Centre for African Family Studies, the John Hopkins University, and the Academy for Educational Development.
http://pcs.aed.org/empowering.htm
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- Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Soucebook
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Discussion of What is Empowerment? and Applying Empowerment Principles by the World Bank 2002
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/empowerment/sourcebook/draft.pdf
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- Building the Capacity of Local Groups (pdf)
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Tearfund, by Isabel Carter (2001). A PILLARS Guide (Partnership in Local Language Resources). These guides are designed for use in small group situations where one or more people are literate and confident enough to lead others in group discussion. They aim to provide material for discussion around a subject either in isolation or as part of a regular group meeting; for example of farmers, literacy trainees or Mothers Union members. Ideally just two or three pages should be used each time allowing plenty of time for discussion of the issues raised and for carrying out some of the practical ideas suggested. No training is first necessary for the discussion leader. PILLARS Guides aim to increase confidence among group members, so that they can successfully manage change within their own situation without the need for outside intervention. They try to build on existing knowledge and experiences among the members or within their community, so that different ideas can be tried out, adapted, and then either abandoned if not useful or appropriate, or found useful and adopted.
http://www.tilz.info/uploads/documents/Capacity_EBW.pdf
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- Citizens as Partners: OECD Handbook on Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, drafted by Marc Gramberger (2001). This OECD Handbook on Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-making is a practitioner's guide designed for use by government officials in OECD Member and non-member countries. It offers a practical "road map" for building robust frameworks for informing, consulting and engaging citizens during policy-making. The Handbook recognises the great diversity of country contexts, objectives and measures in strengthening government-citizen relations. As a result, it offers no prescriptions or ready-made solutions. Rather, it seeks to clarify the key issues and decisions faced by government officials when designing and implementing measures to ensure access to information, opportunities for consultation and public participation in policy-making in their respective countries.
http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/4201141E.pdf
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- People Centered Development Forum
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The PCDForum envisions human societies in which three values serve as organizing principles of public policy: justice, inclusiveness, and sustainability. In the belief that voluntary citizen action is the necessary foundation of transformational change, the Forum works with and through other civil society organizations through alliance building, educational outreach, and the articulation of a shared vision. PCDForum's president is David C. Korten, author of the international best-seller When Corporations Rule the World.
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- C.E.G.A. Resource Centre
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Within the C.E.G.A. Resource Centre one can find practical handouts on more than 25 topics, in English and Bulgarian language, easy to download as .zip files.
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- Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutionalizing Popular Participation
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This brief presents preliminary findings and recommendations from research on natural resources in decentralization efforts around the world. The findings derive from WRI's Accountability, Decentralization, and Environment Comparative Research Project in Africa, and cases presented at the WRI-organized Conference on Decentralization and Environment in Bellagio, Italy in February 2002. The Africa-wide research project conducted field studies in Cameroon, Mali, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe in 2000 and 2001.
http://pdf.wri.org/ddnr_full_revised.pdf
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- Participatory Processes in the Country Assistance Strategies: Retrospective (PDF)
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World Bank (2002). Many Country Assistance Strategies (CASs) are increasingly being prepared in consultation with a broad range of stakeholders and are closely aligned with the national development strategies. The main objective of participatory processes in the CAS is to obtain a wide range of perspectives from diverse stakeholders on the priorities, challenges and options for the Bank's activities and role in the country. This, in addition to increasing the Bank's understanding of issues and priorities, also leads to the development of an enabling environment for on-going dialogue and collaboration in the country. This study, similar to the previous CAS retrospective, focuses on assessing the performance of CASs with respect to the quality of participation.
http://www.worldbank.org/participation/partprocessCAS2001.pdf
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- Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD) - Participatory Avenues
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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".
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- Participation Toolkit
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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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- Multiple Livelihoods and Social Change in South Africa
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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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- International Association for Public Participation - IAP2
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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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- Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods &
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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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- Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessments in Developing Countries
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From the Canadian International Development Agency. The Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessments (EAs) Index of Useful Resources is a compilation of both French and English resources related to environmental assessment public participation practices, tools, and techniques undertaken in developing and Central and Eastern Europe countries. Although the public participation resources deal mainly with environmental assessment in developing countries, some useful general references have also been included. The types of resources include publications, internet websites, CD-ROM's and videos. The aim of this Index is to serve as a guide to information that may prove helpful in dealing with public participation in EAs.
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/REN-218131251-PH5
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- The Guide to Effective Participation
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by David Wilcox. Produced in 1994 for community activists and professionals seeking to get other people involved in social, economic and environmental projects and programmes. The guide is also aimed at being useful to people developing electronic community networks who face issues of trying to develop understanding and gain commitment among a wide range of interests, and build partnerships.
http://www.partnerships.org.uk/guide/index.htm
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- The Participatory Development (PD) Forum
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The Participatory Development (PD) Forum is an international network of several hundred development practitioners, non-governmental organisations, academics/action researchers, private sector representatives, and policy makers interested in advancing reflection and practice in the area of particpatory development. Formed in 1996, the PD Forum was established as a non-profit organisation in 1999.
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- Books Without Borders
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Give a book, or give a lift to a book: ordinary New Zealanders make a difference and move 29000kilos of books to the other side of the world in partnership with the Reading Association of Nigeria. A project without money even coming near the equation. Just people participating in enhancing the learning of friends unmet.
http://www.theglobalbridge.com/bookswithoutborders/
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