Participation Archives - Page 18 of 20 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

NGO partnerships and the taming of the grassroots in rural India

01/04/2005

6 pages long

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Based on reflections undertaken with members of a partnership between an NGO and Adivasi (original dweller) communities in the Indian state of Orissa, this paper examines various linkages among NGOs (international, state, district, or local), and grassroots organisations in terms of their prospects for advancing Adivasi activism for social change. International NGOs seldom work directly […]

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Research report

Breathing Life into Democracy: The power of participatory budgeting

01/02/2005

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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With the massive global increase in urbanisation, new ideas are needed on how to manage and pay for the communal services on which people depend. Participatory budgeting is one such idea. PB is a mechanism of local government, which brings local communities closer to the decision-making process around the public budget. PB makes new connections […]

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Research report

Bringing Budgets Alive: Participatory budgeting in practice

01/02/2005

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report describes how Community Pride Initiative have tried to use the principles of participatory budgeting, as developed in Brazil, to improve the way public money is used in Greater Manchester. It outlines how to create added value from adopting participatory budgeting ideas and shows that it is possible to operate participatory budgets using no […]

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Journal article

Engaging women in community decision-making processes in rural Ghana: Problems and prospects

01/02/2005

10 pages long

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Engaging women in community decision-making processes in rural Ghana: Problems and prospects

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While it is recognised that women play fundamental roles in the socio-economic development of their communities, they are often excluded from local decision-making processes because their views are not solicited and their interests are not taken into consideration in the formulation of local development programmes. Drawing on case studies from Ghana, this article identifies the […]

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Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and local participation: a review of recent research

01/11/2004

11 pages long

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This review essay analyses three recent works on the relationship between democracy and decentralisation, with a focus on local participation and empowerment: Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance (Richard Crook and James Manor), Good Government in the Tropics (Judith Tendler), and a thematic issue of the European Journal […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

What Men and Women Want: A practical guide to gender and participation

01/08/2004

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

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Based on an actual gendered participatory appraisal in Wales, this guide offers a thorough explanation of why looking at the differences in men’s and women’s life experiences is an essential part of any participatory work. What Men and Women Want guides the user through the stages of a process which is ‘gendered’ throughout – in […]

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Research report

Oxfam UKPP’s Partners’ Participatory Appraisal Review Workshop: 18th and 19th April, 2001, Luther King House, Manchester

07/06/2004

2 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

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The aim of this workshop was to to bring together UKPP’s partners using Participatory Appraisal (PA) to: review their experience of using PA, review their experience of developing skills and competence in using PA, discuss scope of using PA in their work and what support they might need on taking this forward, and Oxfam’s possible […]

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Book

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections

01/06/2003

1 documents

302 pages long

Languages: English

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Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical Framework. It demonstrates […]

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Research report

A Citizens’ Budget: Regenerating local democracy through community participation in public budgeting

01/07/2002

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

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The participatory budget (PB0 pioneered in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre and now adopted in at least 70 cities in Brazil represents a form of participatory democracy and local governance developed in the South from which much can be leardned in cities in the North. Community Pride, together with Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, developed […]

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Book

Peru

01/01/2002

5 documents

98 pages long

Languages: English

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This profile provides a guide to the major recent economic, social, and political developments within Peru, viewed through the eyes of Peruvians themselves. John Crabtree emphasises the depth of social divides in a country where more than half of the population lives in poverty and without access to adequate employment. He analyses the weakness of […]

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