'This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the concept. It is both practical and well justified on the basis of the literature. The approach and survey instruments developed to measure empowerment are innovative and very useful. Developing an approach to empirically measure empowerment, and to track empowerment indicators over time in a way that is operationally feasible and consistent with World Bank standards is certainly an outstanding achievement.' --Reginer Birner, Senior Research...
'This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the...
The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. - Who Changes?- draws together, for the first time, lessons and experiences from key development agencies around the globe on the institutional change needed to make participation a reality.
The book explores the main issues and concerns of development professionals involved in PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) practices: adapting PRA methods from micro to macro organizations and the type of changes required by an organization to implement PRA effectively. In addition,...
The recent trend of participatory approaches presents challenges to those working in the development sector. - Who Changes?- draws together, for the f...
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and related participatory approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by the realities of those who are poor, weak, marginalized, and excluded.
Based on the premise that sustainable policies require local voices to be heard, this book demonstrates the far-reaching implications of such approaches for the development sector. Its impact on the poor is potentially phenomenal.
The book is divided into three sections:
+Part 1 explores case studies in which participatory methods and approaches have been...
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and related participatory approaches have opened up new ways in which policy can be influenced by the realities of...
Dubbed, "The Great Enchantress," by art critic Robert Hughes, Barcelona was seducing visitors long before the city's rise to a tourist hotspot following the Olympic Games in 1992. Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell all once called the Catalan capital "home," while countless others have been charmed by the city's character and splendor. From Barcelona is a collection of twelve short stories inspired by this cryptic Mediterranean metropolis, where haunted flats overlook leafy squares and feline temptresses lurk in smoky bars. Experience Antoni GaudI's frustrations as he sought...
Dubbed, "The Great Enchantress," by art critic Robert Hughes, Barcelona was seducing visitors long before the city's rise to a tourist hotspot foll...
Participatory statistics have come of age in a methodologically pluralistic world. In recent years participatory research has established its credentials as an approach - with an accompanying set of tools - in which local people themselves generate statistics. This book seeks to provide impetus for a step change in the adoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international development practice. The time has come for participatory statistics to be recognized as the first and best option for a -win win- approach to data generation and analysis.
Participatory statistics have come of age in a methodologically pluralistic world. In recent years participatory research has established its credenti...
