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"Do not look down on us": Children's voices from Informal Settlements in Zimbabwe
Abstract
Situation analysis of the conditions in Porta Farm, an informal settlement 35km west of Harare. Looks at the situation of children to identify possible interventions to assist the most vulnerable groups, and concerned with assessing the extent of application of principles of UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Publisher
Save the Children Fund (UK)
Training for Transformation: A Handbook for Community Workers
Abstract
Recognising the role of active participation in transforming the lives of poor people, the 4th volume in the Training for Transformation series focusses on the environment; gender; racism; multi-cultural understanding; and building participatory governance.
Publisher
Intermediate Technology Publications
Integrated Conservation and Development
Abstract
Trainer's manual for organisations involved in integrated conservation and development training and planning. Introduces fundamentals of planning, conducting, and monitoring participatory workshops, and key concepts in ICD.
Publisher
World Wide Fund for Nature
Whose voice? Participatory research and policy change
Abstract
Participatory policy analysis questions conventional policy-making procedures, challenges the behaviour and attitudes of policy makers and influences the style and substance of policy itself. This book examines the implications and issues of participatory policy-focused research through case studies and discussions. One section concentrates specifically on participatory poverty assessments as a means of bringing local poverty and policy analysis into the policy process.
Publisher
IT Publications
Who changes? Insitutionalizing participation in development
Abstract
The book explores the main issues and concerns of development professionals about adapting PRA from micro to macro organisations. It includes a checklist of practical considerations on training, taking projects from pilots and scaling up, changing institutional cultures and procedures and introducing participatory monitoring and evaluation.
Publisher
IT Publications
Myth of Community : gender issues in participatory development
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The widespread uptake of participatory approaches has created a need to assess more critically if the work is benefitting women and men equally. Community differences are simplified, power relationships poorly understood and conflicts avoided or ignored. The contributors to this book provide an overview of issues and lessons, theoretical reflections, practical experiences and examples of how organizations are attempting to integrate gender into the participatory process.
Publisher
IT Publications
Mediating sustainability : growing policy from the grassroots.
Publisher
Kumarian Press
Stepping forward : children and young people's participation in the development process
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This book presents issues and challenges facing those facilitating children's and young people's participation. The contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds including NGOs in development, children's agencies, academic insitutions and governments and provide case studies from the UK, Eastern Europe, asia, Africa, the Carribean and central and north America. Chapter 1 gives and overview to the main issues and concepts and chapters 2-7 each expand on a particular theme. The main issues discussed and analysed include: the ethical dilemmas facing professionals, the process and methods used in partlicipatory research and planning with children, the inter-relationship between culture and children's participation, considerations for instiutions and the key qualities of a participation programme.