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Participatory Methods Toolkit - a Practitioner’s Manual

A participatory approach advocates actively involving ‘the public’ in decision-making processes,whereby the relevant ‘public’ depends upon the topic being addressed. The public can be average citiz...
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  • gfbertini published this 11/09/2009
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Are Academics Irrelevant - roles for scholars in participatory research

The idea of participatory research and its various related forms (collaborative research, action research, participatory action research), as a way to assist community self determination, has explo...
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  • gfbertini published this 11/08/2009
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FARM-Africa Working Paper: Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania

FARM-Africa Tanzania began Farmer Participatory Research-type activities in Babati in 1990 with the implementation of the crop improvement component of the Babati Agricultural Development Project (...
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  • FARMAfrica published this 10/14/2009
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FARM-Africa Policy and Research: Supporting Land Reform in South Africa: Participatory Planning Expe

Following the historic elections in 1994, the South African Government embarked on an ambitious land reform programme, aiming to have 30 per cent of South Africa’s agricultural land in black owners...
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  • FARMAfrica published this 10/14/2009
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FARM-Africa Best Practice: The Key Steps in Establishing Participatory Forest Management - A field m

Participatory Forest Management (PFM) development in Ethiopia has been taking place since the mid 1990s. In 1995 the Oromiya Regional State Government took the lead in working with FARM-Africa to e...
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  • FARMAfrica published this 10/14/2009
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FARM-Africa Experience and Research: Farmer Participatory Research in Southern Ethiopia

In recent years there has been a considerable ‘push’ towards participatory agricultural research and as a result there is now a wide array of 'participatory' projects as well as a huge wealth of li...
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  • FARMAfrica published this 10/14/2009
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Engaging Citizens

The Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter on Engaging Citizens in Government is now available from the GSA Office of Citizen Services and Communications. This edition presents the views of 24 tre...
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  • LisaNelson published this 10/01/2009
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Community Development Approach in Aceh Reconstruction, Reflecting on Lessons Learned for Yogyakarta

The tsunami and earthquake disaster that struck Aceh on 26 December 2004 resulted in an influx of over 350 aid organizations – only some of which had experience in the relief and reconstruction bus...
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  • Muamar Vebry published this 07/25/2009
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Building versus Planning: Lesson Learned from Aceh & Sri Lanka Post-Tsunami Reconstruction

This working paper simply elaborates the approach of planners in dealing with post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction both in Aceh and Sri Lanka. The discussion explores the effectiveness o...
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  • Muamar Vebry published this 07/25/2009
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การศึกษาอย่างมีส่วนร่วมปฎ ิบัติการเพื่อสร้างเสริมสุ ขภาพชุมชน

การศึกษาโดยการทำงานร่วมกันเพื่อสร้างเสริมสุขภาพชุมชน ควรจะเริ่มต้นเรียนรู้ร่วมกันด้วยการทำงานเป็นทีม เริ่มจากภาวการณ์ที่ชาวบ้านเป็นหรือมีอยู่แล้วและไม่พยายามทำในสิ่งที่อาจขัดความรู้สึกชาวบ้าน หรือ...
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  • Uthaiwan Kanchanakamol published this 06/26/2009
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A New Spin on Research Translation: The Boston Consensus Conference on Human Biomonitoring

Translating research to make it more understandable and effective (research translation) has been declared a priority in environmental health but does not always include communication to the public...
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  • ehponline published this 04/22/2009
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Youth Participation in Governance

The words “governance” and “good governance” appear frequently these days in the discourse of aid agencies, civil society groups and governments at all levels. In the development world, the term do...
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  • ramonayco published this 03/02/2009
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The Spanish Anarchists - Through Participatory Lens

Anarchism Spain Revolution Anrcho-syndicalism Participatory Economy Parecon Collectivisation Direct Democracy Rationality Gender Morality
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  • kiwi101 published this 01/22/2009
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Parecon and the Nature of Reformism (Anarchist Analysis)

Anarchism Michael Albert Participatory Economy Parecon Anticapitalism Workers Council Democracy
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  • kiwi101 published this 01/22/2009
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Participatory Economics - A Theoretical Alternative to Capitalism

Participatory Economy Anarchism Philosophy Planning Capitalism Parecon Workers
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  • kiwi101 published this 01/22/2009
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Air Pollution and Odor in Communities Near Industrial Swine Operations

Odors can affect health and quality of life. Industrialized animal agriculture creates odorant compounds that are components of a mixture of agents that could trigger symptoms reported by neighbors...
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  • ehponline published this 10/07/2008
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Community-Based Participatory Research: A Vehicle to Promote Public Engagement for Environmental Hea

In the past 25 years, China has experienced remarkable economic growth and rapid agricultural-to-industrial and rural-to-urban transitions. As a consequence, China now faces many daunting environme...
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  • ehponline published this 10/07/2008
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Towards Local Democracy in Nepal - by Damodar Adhikari

It is a research based book written in the local governance context of Nepal. Decentralization and participatory planning are the focus of the research, which have been taken as integral parts of l...
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  • damodar.adhikari@gmail.com published this 08/30/2008
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The Blogging Revolution

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  • gilbertociro published this 08/19/2008
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Research Policy 2007

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  • gilbertociro published this 08/19/2008
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