SELECTED WEB RESOURCES AND DOCUMENTS on Participatory Processes

Prepared by the PRS Participation Team WORLD BANK WEB RESOURCES

Comprehensive Development Framework http://www.worldbank.org/cdf/ This website serves as a tool for sharing information and ideas related to the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF). Development Forum http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/ The Development Forum is an electronic venue for dialogue and knowledge-sharing among members of the development community. Its focal point is an ongoing and expanding series of electronic Development Dialogues on key issues and challenges facing the development community and the world's poor, with a particular emphasis on learning from the experience of those who face these challenges in their daily lives. NGOs and Civil Society www.worldbank.org/ngos This website helps to keep NGOs and civil society groups informed about opportunities for interaction with the Bank. Participation Key Documents http://essd/essd/sdv/sdvhome.nsf/BasicPart/KeyDocs/?OpenView This collection of papers contains various materials produced within the Bank on participatory approaches to Macro-level Policy Formulation. It offers an overview of recent work to incorporate more inclusive strategies in the Bank's planning and lending activities, as well as in the government's own decision-making processes. Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/sourctoc.htm The Sourcebook is a guide to assist countries in the development and strengthening of poverty reduction strategies. It is intended only to be suggestive and to be selectively used as a resource to provide information about possible approaches. It reflects the thinking and practices associated with the Comprehensive Development Framework, as well as lessons emerging from the forthcoming World Development Report on Poverty, and good international practices related to poverty reduction. Participation Sourcebook (1996) http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sbhome.htm A collection of experience and advise from World Bank staff on the use of participation methods. Primarily intended for readers who have already decided to use participatory approaches in their professional work. PovertyNet http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/index.htm This web site contains an overview of the poverty reduction strategy framework, regular updates, and key documents. Online Sourcebook on Decentralization and Local Development http://www.ciesin.org/decentralization/ The Sourcebook provides general information, program design, case studies, and tools for practitioners involved in decentralization. Project collaborators include the World Bank Community Based Rural Development Thematic Group, UNDP, FAO, GTZ, SDC (Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation).

OTHER WEB-RESOURCES
ActionAid http://www.oneworld.org/actionaid/ http://www.actionaid.org/ Actionaid India: http://www.actionaidindia.org/aaiweb/index.html Actionaid aims "to help communities in 20 of the poorest countries to overcome poverty and secure lasting improvements in the quality of their lives". Current focus is on community based development, working with communities to design, fund and manage programmes. Civic Network http://civic.net/ccn.html Gopher servers on urban planning, including community dialog, civic participation, local information infrastructure and civic networking. Civil Society Organizations and Participation Programme (CSOPP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) http://www.undp.org/csopp/CSO/ Comm-Org www.listserv@uicvm.uic.edu Discussion list on the history of community organising and community based development. Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) http://campfirezimbabwe.org/ CAMPFIRE is an exploration of rural development and conservation in Africa. It seeks to restructure the control of Zimbabwe's countryside, giving people alternative ways of using their natural resources. CAMPFIRE, designed and managed entirely by Africans, emerged in the mid-1980's with the recognition that as long as wildlife remained the property of the state no one would invest in it as a resource. Communities Online http://www.communities.org.uk/ukco/ UK based site, initiated by International Association for Community Networking and Partnerships for Tomorrow, as an independent partnership to promote the use of the Internet and new information technology in community building. Partly funded by UK Government's IT Partnership Initiative, 'IT For All'. Main activity is the Communities Online Forum, a site which includes mailing lists, news, articles, reports and full text items covering local, national and international community networking initiatives. Forests, Trees and People Programme and Network (FTP / FTPP), FAO / SLU http://www.fao.org/forestry/FON/FONP/cfu/cfu-e.stm Network aiming to share information about improving community forestry activities. Managed by the FAO Community Forestry Unit and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Global Participation Net (GP-NET) To subscribe, send an email to Maura Fulton at mfulton@aed.org including your full name and email address. Discussion list on participatory approaches sponsored by USAID's Participation Initiative. In addition to postings, GP-NET has an archive that holds all of USAID's Participation Initiative documents, including Participatory Practices case study series and Participation Forum summaries. ILEIA / Centre for Research and Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture http://www.oneworld.org/ileia/ Library catalogue: http://www.bib.wau.nl/ileia/ ILEIA focuses on the assessment of the potential and limitations of low external input and sustainable agriculture. Research activities are concentrated in three countries: Ghana, Peru and the Philippines. Includes library on sustainable development and participative methodologies.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) http://www.iied.org/ NGO promoting sustainable patterns of world development through research, training, policy studies, consensus building and public information. Resource Centre includes collection on participatory learning and action. PRA / PLA: creating a bibliographical database on participatory rapid appraisal (PRA) / with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) - available on IDS WWW server. Full text of PLA Notes (formerly PRA Notes / RRA Notes) available on ActionAid bulletin board Mosaic.net International, Inc. http://mosaic-net-intl.ca/home.html Providing Innovative Solutions to Development Issues. Focus of site is on participatory development. Participation Group, IDS http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk/ids/particip/ Group working in support of participatory approaches to development, an active part of an informal network of people and groups working on participatory questions around the globe. Site includes: directory of world-wide participation networks; bibliography (with abstracts) of documents held in the Group's document collection; listing of training events. Based at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Partalk / Parnet http://www.parnet.org/ Participatory Action Research network (PARnet) organized by Cornell University. Its function is to facilitate "the cooperative development and application of social research methods that accomplish both appropriate social change and the generation of new social knowledge for the benefit of all participants. Includes discussion lists, primary list is PARtalk-l: currently around 150 participants world-wide, discussing PAR applications in various settings. Participation abstracts and document collection, IDS http://www.ids.susx.ac.uk:80/ids/particip/readrm.html Collection of about 3000 documents of mainly unpublished practical information on participation derived from donations and exchanges with practitioners and networks. Collection located at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK Participatory Initiatives WWW http://www.oac.uoguelph.ca/~pi/ Center for PRA materials, based at University of Guelph. Collection of full text resources, bibliographies, methodologies. Includes collection of methods for work with both groups and individuals, with associated practical materials, and exercises/workbooks; short bibliographies on participation, facilitation, and participatory learning and analysis. Participatory Research and Adaptive Natural Resource Management, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research http://www.landcare.cri.nz/sal/ New Zealand organization working cooperatively with land managers, communities and policy makers to help the identification and introduction of more sustainable resource management practices. People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/PPdirect/PPhomepg.htm Site maintained by the FAO's Sustainable Development Department. Presents news, summary and full text materials on FAO programmes/policies related to participation. PRA materials in Spanish http://biblioteca.nur.edu:81/compass Collection of materials on participatory methods and PRA. Translations provided by Nur Univseridad, Bolivia (see separate entry).

PRAXIS http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html Links to national and international resources on social and economic development. Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) http://csf.Colorado.EDU/sristi/ Indian based non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems. Site has information on network, full text from Honeybee newsletter, directory of indigenous ecological instituitions for managing common property resources, archives of discussion lists, information on the technolgies being developed by Gujarat Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network (GIAN), Universidad Nur, Bolivia http://biblioteca.nur.edu Bolivian private university focusing on rural development needs. The site (in Spanish, with background information in English) has information on their programmes and publications. Areas of research/teaching include gender studies and participatory methods.

WORLD BANK DOCUMENTS

Building Poverty Reduction Strategies in Developing Countries, Development Committee, September 1999. http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/streng.pdf Can the Poor Influence Policy: Participatory Assessments in the Developing World, Caroline Robb, The World Bank, 1999. Community Reintegration in Rwanda, Markus Kostner, Post Conflict Unit, Social Development Department. Community-based Contracting: A Review of Stakeholder Experience, Samantha de Silva, Human Development Network. Decentralized Rural Development and Enhanced Community Participation: A Case Study from Northeast Brazil, WB Policy Research Working Paper 1498. Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project (CEP), Gillian Brown, East Asia. Food for Thought: Proceedings from Brown Bag Lunch Series, Fall 1999, K. Bain et al., Civil Society Team, LAC Region. Gender Issues in Participation, Draft 1997, Michael Bamberger (PRMGE) and Mark Blackden (AFTI1). India District Poverty Initiatives Program (DPIP), Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh, India, Ruth Alsop, South Asia Participation in CAS Retrospective http://essd/essd/sdv/sdvhome.nsf/BasicPart/KeyDocs/?OpenView Participatory Approaches to CAS Formulation in the Bank, Parmesh Shah and Seema Tikare, Participation Thematic Group. http://essd/essd/sdv/sdvhome.nsf/BasicPart/KeyDocs/?OpenView Participatory Approaches to Country Assistance Strategies: Lessons from Africa, Social Development Notes No. 48, October 1999. http://essd/essd/sdv/sdvhome.nsf/BasicPart/KeyDocs/?OpenView

Partners in Transforming Development: New Approaches to Developing Country-Owned Poverty Reduction Strategies, The WB Strategy Group, March 2000. http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/keydocs.htm Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP and Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF): Examples of ways in which PR could be mainstreamed, Republic of Kenya, M. Sam. Rao, December 1999. Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, Chapter on Gender, March 2000. http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/sourctoc.htm Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, Chapter on Monitoring & Evaluation, March 2000. http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/sourctoc.htm Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, Chapter on Participation, March 2000. http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/sourctoc.htm Thinking out Loud: Innovative Case Studies on Participatory Instruments, T. Asparicio et al. Civil Society Team, LAC Region. Vietnam Development Report: Attacking Poverty, Joint Report of the Government-Donor-NGO Working Group, Dec. 1999.

OTHER DOCUMENTS
Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Synthesis of Experience with Participatory Approaches to Policy Design, Implementation and Monitoring, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, participation@ids.ac.uk. Participatory Learning & Action, (1995), Produced by: International Institute for Environment and Development, London. Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation: Learning from Change, Institute of Development Studies, Policy Briefing Issue 12, November 1998. http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/publicat/briefs/brief12.html Resource Book on Participation, (1988), UNDP, Produced by: Civil Society Organisations and Participation Programme. Who Changes? Institutionalizing Participation in Development, (1998), Edited by Jeremy Holland with James Blackburn, Intermediate Technology Publications, London. Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last, (1997), Robert Chambers, Intermediate Technology Publications, London. Whose Voice? Participatory Research and Policy Change, (1998), Edited by James Blackburn with Jeremy Holland, Intermediate Technology Publications, London.