Download or read book Participatory Pathways People s Participation in Development Initiatives written by Balakrishnan, Rajiv and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory Pathways: People’s Participation in Development Initiatives aims to create awareness about the issues that need to be tackled, provide a grassroots perspective of the promise and perils of participatory pathways and a glimpse of the role people's participation can play in building a better world. Covering topics like grassroots governance, gender and ethics, enabling frameworks, and participatory planning, this book draws attention to participation’s promise while emphasizing the need to take cognizance of the obstacles in the way.
Download or read book People Land and Water written by Guy Bessette and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making. Ideally, the research or development process itself generates a situation of empowerment in which participants transform their vision and become able to take effective action. Used increasingly widely in resource management, this process is known as Participatory Development Communication (PDC).This book presents conceptual and methodological issues r.
Download or read book Revolutionizing Development written by Andrea Cornwall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'. Robert Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory approaches to development, and particularly the application of participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who has had more influence on approaches to development in the past decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.
Download or read book Participatory Development written by Ponna Wignaraja and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling the problems of Third World development from a different perspective, this study offers a new approach in which people at the grass roots level in South Asia become both the subjects and the objects of a participatory process of development designed to improve living conditions.
Download or read book Participation written by Samuel Hickey and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community consent. In this important new volume, development and other social policy scholars and practitioners seek to rebut this simplistic conclusion, while addressing the problems of power and politics which have beset some approaches to participation. They describe and analyse new experiments in participation from a wide diversity of social contexts that show how, far from being a redundant and depoliticizing concept, participation can -- given certain conditions -- be linked to genuinely transformative processes and outcomes for marginalized communities and people. This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to evaluate the state of participatory approaches in the aftermath of the 'Tyranny' critique. It captures the recent convergence between participatory development and participatory governance, and spans the range of institutional actors involved in these approaches - the state, civil society and donor agencies. It places participatory interventions in a political context, and links them directly to issues of popular agency. The volume embeds participation within contemporary advances in development theory and proposes theoretical and practical ways forward for relocating participation as a genuinely transformative approach. Scholars and practitioners alike, and from a diversity of disciplines and community and development agencies, are likely to find this volume a theoretically illuminating and practically useful source of ideas about how participation can achieve concrete liberatory outcomes.
Download or read book Pathways to Participation written by Andrea Cornwall and published by ITDG Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the greatest names in development practice including Robert Chambers, and Jules Pretty, embracing a range of entry points and experiences, to articulate the forms of practice that have come to be called 'PRA' Participatory Rural Appraisal; the most popularly recognized and widely used approach to participation..
Download or read book People s Self Development written by Muhammad Anisur Rahman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises ten papers from 1974 to 1989 on development through collective local initiatives by people themselves, and how to promote such development.
Download or read book Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems written by A. Javier Treviño and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges sociologists and sociology students to think beyond the construction of social problems to tackle a central question: What do sociologists do with the analytic tools and academic skills afforded by their discipline to respond to social problems? Service Sociology posits that a central role of sociology is not simply to analyse and interpret social problems, but to act in the world in an informed manner to ameliorate suffering and address the structural causes of these problems. This volume provides a unique contribution to this approach to sociology, exploring the intersection between its role as an academic discipline and its practice in the service of communities and people. With both contemporary and historical analyses, the book traces the legacy, characteristics, contours, and goals of the sociology of service, shedding light on its roots in early American sociology and its deep connections to activism, before examining the social context that underlies the call for volunteerism, community involvement and non-profit organisations, as well as the strategies that have promise in remedying contemporary social problems. Presenting examples of concrete social problems from around the world, including issues of democratic participation, poverty and unemployment, student involvement in microlending, disaster miitigation, the organization and leadership of social movements, homelessness, activism around HIV/AIDS and service spring breaks, Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems explores the utility of public teaching, participatory action research, and service learning in the classroom as a contribution to the community.
Download or read book Participatory Communication written by Thomas Tufte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we say participatory communication? What are the practical implications of working with participatory communication strategies in development and social change processes? What experiences exists in practice that documents that participatory communication adds value to a development project or programme? The aim of this user guide on participatory communication is to provide answers to some of these questions. Many communication practitioners and development workers face obstacles and challenges in their practical work. A participatory communication strategy offers a very specific perspective on how to articulate social processes, decision-making processes and any change process for that matter. Participatory approaches are nothing new. However, what is new is the proliferation of institutions, especially governmental but also non-governmental, that seek participatory approaches in their development initiative. This guide seeks to provide perspectives, tools and experiences regarding how to go about it with participatory communication strategies. It is conceived as a guide that hopefully can be of relevance and utility for development workers in the field. It is targeted at both at government and their officials, World Bank staff and at civil society.
Download or read book Decentralised Governance and Development in Tribal Areas in Odisha India written by Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a result of a piece of field-based research that discusses the institutional arrangements and workings of the rural local governments, otherwise known as the Panchayati Raj institutions, in rural and tribal areas (scheduled areas) in the context of the enactment of important constitutional and legal provisions. It focuses on understanding decentralised governance through political structures and workings of rural local governments and the contributions of these institutions in shaping the political economy of the tribal people in India through the case of Odisha. It highlights the Panchayati Raj institutions that have been instrumental in strengthening the local politics and governance, as well as propelling the economic development, of tribal communities in rural areas. It demonstrates that effective implementation is the tantamount of strengthening the livelihoods of poor tribal people.
Download or read book Involving the Community written by Guy Bessette and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice to researchers, community members, and development practitioners on how to improve their ability to effectively reach policy makers and promote change. Covers their roles as a communication actors, how to plan a participatory development communication strategy, and the use of communication tools.
Download or read book Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture written by Henry Jenkins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these activities, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, development of skills useful in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship. Some argue that young people pick up these key skills and competencies on their own by interacting with popular culture; but the problems of unequal access, lack of media transparency, and the breakdown of traditional forms of socialization and professional training suggest a role for policy and pedagogical intervention. This report aims to shift the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions about access to technology to questions about access to opportunities for involvement in participatory culture and how to provide all young people with the chance to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed. Fostering these skills, the authors argue, requires a systemic approach to media education; schools, afterschool programs, and parents all have distinctive roles to play. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
Download or read book Knowledge Shared written by Edward T. Jackson and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. With its instructive case studies from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, and St Vincent, the book is a guide to a community-based approach to evaluation that is at once a learning process, a means of taking action, and a catalyst for empowerment.Knowledge Shared is the most comprehensive book now available on participatory evaluation. It is intended primarily as a tool for practitioners and policymakers in all segments of development cooperatio.
Download or read book INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS written by HAREKRISHNA MISRA and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management Information Systems (MIS) has fast emerged as a multi-disciplinary area having strategic interfaces to achieve organizational objectives. This comprehensive book discusses the underlying principles of business and development organizations, identifies their core areas and prescribes approaches to develop MIS. Divided into five parts, Part I—Understanding Organizations for MIS deals with organizational issues and focuses on the rationale behind creating organizations, especially business and development organizations, to understand their distinguishing features. Part II—Systems Approach to Organizations covers conceptualization, identification, design and development of Information System (IS) for the organization in order to have better systems in place to support organizational goals. Part III—Understanding MIS discusses the relevance of MIS in organizations and the forms it can take to meet the strategic needs of the respective organizations. Part IV—Understanding Information Technologies describes possible approaches to plan, identify and deploy ICT in the acquiring organizations and provides insight into the barriers that creep in during identification and deployment of IS and ICT keeping in view the organizational objectives. Part V—Planning and Implementation of MIS concludes with a discussion on preparation of MIS plan and issues related to its implementation.The book is intended for the postgraduate students of management specializing in rural management and IT. Key Features • Describes life cycle approach and systems approach to organizations. • Contains a large number of case studies. • Provides real-life examples to put the concepts in the right perspective.
Download or read book People s Participation in Development Projects written by Peter Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation has emerged as an alternative paradigm of development. This overview paper on participation identifies what have been the main lines of thinking and the more concrete elements in the practice of participation in development projects since the mid-1980s.
Download or read book Participatory Community Work written by Zabair Meenai and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian context.
Download or read book Participatory Development written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre and published by OECD. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes participatory approaches and instruments of participation. Suggests that local community-based organizations should be treated as partners or integrated into projects by NGOs and aid agencies. Considers democracy and building up of confidence as necessary conditions for popular participation in development.
