RESOURCES FOR ADE5773:
STRATEGIES FOR PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, PLANNING, AND EVALUATION

Participatory Management

• Participatory Management Clearinghouse described
• The Participatory Management Clearinghouse (PMC)
• Heckscher, C. (1995) The Failure of Participatory Management Across the Board 54 (Nov/Dec 1995): 16-21.
• Sodic Lands Reclamation: Successful Participatory Management in Action
• Vaughan, A. (1987). International Reader in the Management of Library, Information and Archive Services. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• The WorldBank Group: Australia local best practices and participatory management drive the search for sustainable grazing systems
• Participatory Management Running a Project, an NGO, a Department or a Firm
• Woodward Communication, Inc. is practicing Participatory Management
• Participatory Management of Selingue Fisheris and Improvement of Communities Livelihoods
• [pdf] Participatory Management for Agricultural Water Control in Vietnam: Challenges and Opportunities
• [pdf] Local Development and community management of woodlands: Experience from Mali
• [pdf] Board of Education of Montgomery County: Site-Bases Participatory Management
• Bunian: Capacity Building and networking of NGOs
• Collaborative Learning For Environmental Management
• Using Participatory and Learning-Based Approaches for Environmental Management to Help Achieve Constructive Behaviour Change (Report) (doc file is also available)
• Experiences of Canterbury People with the Canterbury Biodiversity Information Network
• This website from Charles Sturt University, Australia contains resources on rural social issues, rural change, rural community development and allied topics.
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent, non-profit organisation which promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, consensus building and public information.
• The Loka Institute Loka is a U.S.-based non profit research and advocacy organization working to make science and technology more responsive to democratically decided social and environmental concerns. Provides on-line publications and also an active electronic discussion group in this area.
• People's Participation, FAO SD Dimensions This site maintained by the the FAO's Sustainable Development Department presents news, summary and full text materials on FAO programmes/policies related to participation.
• [ms word] Participatory Management in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in West Bengal
• Participatory Management for Agricultural Water Control in Vietnam: Challenges and Opportunities
• [pdf] Participatory management of fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon by Mauro Luis Ruffino
• [pdf] Participatory management of Tanzania's Mangroves by Martin E. Adam
• [pdf] Participatory Management of Large Interdisciplinary Research Teams - First experiences from a rural research and development project in Germany - By Thomas Aenis

Participatory Planning

• UNESCAP: Participatory Infrastructure Planning
• East St. Louis Action Research Project: Participatory Planning - Mobilizing resources to address the root causes of urban poverty
• The World Bank Group: Participatory Planning and Decisionmaking

Citizen Empowerment/Involvement

• Mary E. Guy: Civic Nutrition, Citizen Empowerment and Civil Communities (Florida State University)
• Safe Street: Citizen Empowerment
• Citizen Empowerment in Cameroon, Mali and Senegal
• Democracy Online: Empowerment on the Net Communication
• Housing Profile Protocols: Partnering to Develop Tools to Foster Community Revitalization and Citizen Empowerment
• Iowa State University Extension: Community Empowerment Resources Information on Collaboration and Citizen Participation
• Edward W. Schwerin, Mediation, Citizen Empowerment and Transformational Politics Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995, 204 pp.

Participatory Evaluation

• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Interested in Participatory Evaluation?
• Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation
• Guide to Project Evaluation: A Participatory Approach Population Health Directorate Health Canada August 1996
• Japan International Cooperation Agency: Participatory Evaluation and International Cooperation
• Moving From Responsive To Participatory Evaluation of Learning Communities
• The Participation Forum Workshop Notes (No. 2): Participatory Evaluation
• Data Collection Methods: Participatory methods
• Resources: Participatory Evaluation
• A Participatory Evaluation Process to Strengthen the Effectiveness of Industry Teams in Achieving Resource Use Efficiency: The Target Zero Programme of Christchurch City Council (Report)
• Towards improving the role of evaluation within natural resource management R&D programmes: The case for "learning by doing

Learning Organization

• Please go to this URL: http://www.fsu.edu/~elps/ae/about_us/links_lrng_org.html

Links

• ELDIS: Major sources on participation Lists key resources by website, organisation, bibliographical and discussion groups.

Organization and Governmental Offices that Practice Participatory Learning Approach

• Community based approaches provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a range of tools and processes for helping communities set goals (visioning), develop plans for action and carry these through to implementation.
• Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)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. Campfire WWW has information on the project and its members, and a series of factsheets on the project.
• USAID: Participatory Development documents participatory project lessons from USAID's work over the past years in a number of areas including its role in issues relating to gender, conflict and disaster relief.
• The World Bank Participation
• The Natural Resources Management (NRM) Program is a collaborative program between the governments of Indonesia and the United States of America. The NRM Program aims to promote decentralized and strengthened management of Indonesia's forests, protected areas, and coastal resources.

Participatory Action Research

• WEB Links To Participatory Action Research Sites
• Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation
• Participatory Research Link, compiled by Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D.
• The Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research (CPEPR)
• Community Development Society Participatory Research (PR)
• Guidelines and Categories for Classifying Participatory Research Projects in Health Promotion
• the Participatory Research Network at Michigan State University
• Martin, M. (1997) 'Critical Education for Participatory Research' Sociological Research Online, vol. 2, no. 2,
• Action Research Int'l: Paper 2 Yoland Wadsworth * What is Participatory Action Research? November 1998
• NORTH AMERICAN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH GROUP : Responsible Research with Communities: Participatory Research in Primary Care
• Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
• Participatory research on social movement practice: Master's and PhD possibilities

Misc.

• The Guide to Effective Participation by David Wilcox
• An Introductory Guide to Adaptive Management For Project Leaders and Participants
• Empowering People - A Guide to Participation The Guidebook has been prepared primarily as a means to brief and to inform UNDP staff promoting participation in UNDP programmes, but is suitable for anyone interested in this field.
• Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned Aimed at "watershed practitioners and those who support them", this web site - also from the EPA - meets two real needs. First, it will help readers learn what works and does not based on past experience. Second, it will assist people in reaching important resources and contacts that can help them.
• Borrini-Feyerabend, G. (1995) Collaborative Management of Protected Areas: Tailoring the Approach to the Context. This IUCN publication addresses conservation professionals - in particular governmental agency staff - interested in pursuing the collaborative management option.
• Awakening Participation: Building Capacity for Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking This REC Public Participation Training Project reinforces the REC's ongoing commitment to increasing public participation in environmental decisionmaking.

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