Assessing Participatory Development

Assessing Participatory Development

Author: William P. Lineberry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-12

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0429713878

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This book was shaped by ten years of International Fund for Agricultural Development's experience on innovative approaches to people's participation in development. Its critical assessment of the participatory approach explains how it works, its benefits and the pitfalls it harbours for the unwary.


Voices for Change

Voices for Change

Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0889369941

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References pp. 169-172.


Involving the Community

Involving the Community

Author: Guy Bessette

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1552500667

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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.


Community Psychology

Community Psychology

Author: Victoria C. Scott

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1483324249

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Drawing upon the wisdom of experts in the field, this reader-friendly volume explores both foundational competencies and the technical how-to skills needed for engaging in community psychology practice. Each chapter explores a core competency and its application in preventing or amending community problems and issues. With case examples throughout, this text offers a practical introduction to community outreach and intervention in community psychology.


Participatory Rural Appraisal

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Author: N Narayanasamy

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 8178298856

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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methods, now known as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), have been extensively used in development research, action and evaluation. This book is based on the author’s decade-long intensive field experience—each method is explained by drawing on field-based illustrations. The book vividly describes the methods of PRA, highlighting the essential features as well as the application, merits and limitations of each method. Participatory Rural Appraisal: Principles, Methods and Application outlines the application of PRA methodology in areas like participatory poverty assessment, sustainable livelihood analysis, assessment of hunger, vulnerability analysis, organizational analysis, monitoring and evaluation. Separate sections on SWOT analysis and on the method of interview and dialogue are also included in the book. Besides, the author has provided guidelines for sector-wise application of PRA, which would serve as a ready reference for students and practitioners alike. A chapter on the roles of members of a PRA team is another key feature of this book, which would be immensely valuable for students, researchers and academicians working in the areas of social work, rural development, agriculture, and environmental science, and also for NGO workers and trainers and researchers in the development field.


Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation

Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation

Author: David M. Fetterman

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1462532829

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"Collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluations are stakeholder involvement approaches to evaluation. They address concerns about relevance, trust, and use in evaluation. They also build capacity and respond to pressing evaluation needs in the global community. The chapters in this book are designed to help further distinguish one approach from another. The essentials of collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation are presented in separate chapters in order to help practitioners compare and contrast approaches. In addition, case examples are used to illustrate what each approach looks like in practice"--


Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach

Author: Matthew Cotton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3642450881

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Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which defy simple resolution. In the past two decades there has been a shift towards processes of Participatory Technology Assessment designed to build channels of two-way communication between technical specialists and non-expert citizens, and to incorporate multiple stakeholder perspectives in the governance of contentious technology programmes. This participatory turn has spurred a need for new tools and techniques to encourage group deliberation and capture public values, moral and choices. This book specifically examines the ethical dimensions of controversial technologies, and discusses how these can be evaluated in a philosophically robust manner when the ones doing the deliberating are not ethicists, legal or technical experts. Grounded in philosophical pragmatism and drawing upon empirical work in partnership with citizen-stakeholders, this book presents a model called “Reflective Ethical Mapping” - a new meta-ethical framework and toolbox of techniques to facilitate citizen engagement with technology ethics.


Knowledge Shared

Knowledge Shared

Author: Edward T. Jackson

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0889368686

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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.