Topic:

Promoting gender equity in Rural Producers' Organizations (RPOs)

Authors:

Mauro Bottaro, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

Capacity development

Community Listeners' Club (in French)

Quotas for women

Topic:

SEWA’s organizational model: Empowering small-scale women farmers

Authors:

Denis Herbel, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Reema Nanavaty , SEWA, Ahmedabad (India)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

Self-Help Group (SHG)

Topic:

Promising Practices: How agricultural cooperatives work for working women in Africa

Authors:

ILO COOPAfrica

Topic:

Gender mainstreaming in value chain development: Experience of gender action learning system in Uganda.

Authors:

Linda Mayoux, global consultant for Oxfam Novib (The Netherlands)

Janet Biira, Karughe Farmers’ Partnership (KFP) (Uganda)

Paineto Baluku, Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Micro Finance (Uganda)

Thies Reemer, Oxfam Novib (The Netherlands)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

Gender Action Learning System (GALS) 

Topic:

Not without men. Creation of the women’s wing of the FFA-AP in India.

Authors:

Coby Meyboom, Passage, Amersfoort (The Netherlands)

Ira Stam, Passage, Amersfoort (The Netherlands)

Géke Appeldoorn, Agriterra, Arnhem (The Netherlands)

Topic:

Training on the FAO approach to gender analysis and disaster risk management in food security and Agricultural Programmes: a FAO experience in Vietnam.

Authors:

Patricia Colbert, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Jennifer Nyberg, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Lucia Palombi, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Ilaria Sisto, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

The SEAGA for Emergency and Rehabilitation Programmes  

PRA Tools (Participatory mapping, Venn diagram, etc.)

Topic:

Food security and agricultural livelihoods recovery in protracted crises: Lessons learned by FAO and partners.

Authors:

Jennifer Nyberg, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Neil Marsland, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Lucia Palombi, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Dick Trenchard, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

The SEAGA for Emergency and Rehabilitation Programmes 

PRA Tools (Participatory mapping, Venn diagram, etc.)

Topic:

Recognizing women’s critical roles in responding to conflict: FAO and the UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

Authors:

Ilaria Sisto, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Jennifer Nyberg, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Topic:

Community response in protracted crises.

Author:

Karel Callens, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

Farmer field schools

Community-based and livelihoods approaches

Local institutions development

Topic:

The Gender Marker. A Practical Tool for the Agriculture Cluster.

Author:

Linda Pennells, GenCap Adviser (Canada)

Participatory Methodology/Approach:

The IASC Gender Marker

Topic:

Good Practices for Community Resilience.

Author:

Pieter Van Den Ende, Practical Action-Bangladesh, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP)

Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM)

Livelihood-Centred Approaches to Disaster Management

Topic:

Charter of Rights for Women in Disasters – Pakistan.

Authors:

Anis Haroon, National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Sameena Nazir, Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Alice H. Shackelford, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women), New York, USA.

Topic:

Mainstreaming Social Protection, Gender and Accountability in post floods situations.

Authors:

Anis Haroon, National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), Islamabad, Pakistan

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Reconstruction and rehabilitating women’s livelihoods

Topic:

Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction.

Authors:

Anshu Sharma, SEEDS, New Delhi (India)

Rajib Shaw, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)

Yukiko Takeuchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)

Noralene Uy, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge

Topic:

Community watchdog groups protecting land tenure rights of women and orphans in Kenya.

Authors:

GROOTS Kenya, Nairobi (Kenya).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community watchdog groups

Participatory enumerations

Topic:

Improved Food Security and Enhanced Livelihoods through Institutional and Gender-sensitive Land Reform: lessons from Tajikistan.

Authors:

Tea Dabrundashvili,FAO, Rome (Italy).

Vladimir Evtimov,FAO, Rome (Italy).

Ilaria Sisto, FAO, Rome (Italy).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory national land strategy development

Participatory progress monitoring

Awareness campaigns

Topic:

Grassroots women’s participation and the Global Land Tool Network

Authors:

Britta Uhlig, UN-HABITAT, Nairobi (Kenya)

Clarissa Ruggieri, FAO, Rome (Italy).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Grassroots Mechanism

Gender Evaluation Criteria

Topic:

Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers: a literacy review on resources and constraints in access to land.

Authors:

Agnes R. Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC (USA).

Lauren Pandolfelli, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (USA).

Topic:

Preliminary guidelines for Improving Gender Equity in Territorial Issues (IGETI).

Authors:

Ilaria Sisto, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Paolo Groppo, FAO, Rome (Italy).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory and Negotiated Territorial Development (PNTD)

Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme

Dialogue

Negotiation

Improving Gender Equity in Territorial Issues (IGETI).

Topic:

Building partnerships to promote local innovation processes.

Authors:

Ann Waters-Bayer, ETC Foundation (The Netherlands).

Chesha Wettasinha, ETC Foundation (The Netherlands)

Laurens van Veldhuizen, ETC Foundation (The Netherlands)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory Innovation Development (PID)

Topic:

Participatory approaches in multifunctional (peri)-urban agriculture. A case study in Rome (Italy).

Authors:

Daniele Dell’Orco, International Development Studies (MSc), Wageningen University, Wageningen (The Netherlands).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Group meetings

Starting a community social garden

Huertas Comunitarias

Topic:

Lessons Learned from a Review of Networks and Communities/TKNs.

Background document:

FAO - KCE, Report of the Review of the Pilot Phase of FAO Thematic Knowledge Networks, October 2009

Authors:

Gauri Salokhe, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Nadejda Loumbeva, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Stephen Rudgard, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Stephen Katz, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Communities of practice (CoP)

Topic:

Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management: an evaluation of selected participatory tools.

Background document:

Lynam, T,: de Jong, W.; Sheil, D.; Kusumanto, T.; Evans, K., 2007, A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management, Ecology and Society vol 12 No. 1.

Authors:

Timothy Lynam, University of Zimbabwe, Harare (Zimbabwe)

Wil de Jong, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)

Douglas Sheil, CIFOR, Bogor (Indonesia)

Trikurnianti Kusumanto, CIFOR, Bogor (Indonesia)

Kirsten Evans, CIFOR, Bogor (Indonesia)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory mapping

Participatory scenario planning technique

Venn diagram

Topic:

Training on World Café method at an International Organization (FAO).

Background document:

The Knowledge Sharing Toolkit: The World Café

Authors:

Gauri Salokhe, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Nadejda Loumbeva, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Sophie Treinen, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Marco Piazza, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Stefka Kaloyanova, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Julie MacKenzie, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Stephen Katz, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

The World Café

Topic:

The Time-Bound Programme for the Reduction of Child Labour in Ghana. Child Labour Committes and Community-Based Information and Monitoring Systems.

Based on:

FAO, Humboldt University, Child Labour and Children’s Economic Activities in Agriculture in Ghana, 2009 (forthcoming).

Authors:

FAO, Rome (Italy)

Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community Child Labour Committees

Community-Based Information and Monitoring Systems

Community-level Child Protection Teams

Topic:

Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms

Based on:

ILO IPEC, Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms Paper No. 4. - Child labour monitoring. A partnership of communities and government, 2007.

Authors:

Sherin Khan, ILO IPEC, Geneva (Switzerland)

Una Murray, ILO IPEC consultant, Geneva (Switzerland)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community-based child labour monitoring

Topic:

Working Children’s Movements in South America.

Based on:

Marten van den Berge, Working Children’s Movements in Peru, IREWOC, Amsterdam, 2007.

Marten van den Berge, Working Children’s Movements in Bolivia, IREWOC, Amsterdam, 2007

Other documents of interest:

Sonja Zweegers (ed. by), Studying Child Labour. Policy implications of child-centred research, IREWOC, Amsterdam, 2005

Authors:

Marten van den Berge, IREWOC, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Children’s movements

Topic:

NeighbourWoods for Better Cities. Approaches and tools for public involvement.

Based on:

Cecil Konijnendijk, Jasper Schipperijn, NeighbourWoods for Better Cities. Tools for developing multifunctional community woodlands in Europe, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Authors:

Cecil Konijnendijk, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg (Denmark)

Jasper Schipperijn, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg (Denmark)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community planning and management

Topic:

Lessons learned on the use of community-based participatory video: the Video Sabou et Nafa project (Guinea).

Based on:

Lauren Goodsmith, Video Sabou et Nafa: community voices joined in a common cause, (published in Communication for Development and Social Change, Volume I, No. 1, 2007; Hampton Press)

Authors:

Lauren Goodsmith, Communication for Change (C4C), New York (USA)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community-based participatory video

Topic:

Lessons learned on participatory action planning in the peri-urban interface: the twin city experience, Hubli-Dharwad, India.

Based on:

Meera Halkatti, Sangeetha Purushothaman and Robert Brook, Participatory action planning in the peri-urban interface: the twin city experience, Hubli–Dharwad, India, Environment and Urbanization 2003; 15; 149

Authors:

Meera Halakatti, Best Practices Foundation, Dharwad (India)

Sangeetha Purushothaman, Best Practices Foundation, Bangalore (India)

Robert Brook, University of Wales, Bangor ( UK)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory Action Planning

Topic:

Lessons learned in how to select female beneficiaries for the FAO gender project ”Support to household food security and income generation through bio-intensive backyard agricultural production and cottage industry activities for women” (OSRO/GAZ/602/NOR)

Based on:

FAO project ”Support to household food security and income generation through bio-intensive backyard agricultural production and cottage industry activities for women” (OSRO/GAZ/602/NOR).

FAO project "Emergency support and employment generation for female-headed households through backyard farming and cottage industry in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" (OSRO/GAZ/703/ SPA)

Authors:

Intissar Eshtayeh, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Rosalind Earis, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Selection/Involvement of women beneficiaries in food security projects

Topic:

Stakeholder perceptions and participation in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Public consultation process regarding the labelling of genetically modified foods

Based on:

Albert, J.,Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Food and Drug Administration’s Public Consultation Processes and Food Industry Reactions to the United States Voluntary and European Union Mandatory Policies, PhD dissertation in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Tufts University Boston (Massachusetts), 2007.

Author:

Janice Albert, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Public consultation processes:

• public meetings
• public comments

Topic:

Gender equity and rural enterprises

Based on:

Vargas-Lundius, R.; Ypeij, A., Polishing the stone. A journey through the promotion of gender equality in development projects IFAD, 2007 (English)

Vargas-Lundius, R.; Ypeij, A.,Puliendo la piedra,Un recorrido por la promoción de la igualdad de género en los proyectos de desarrollo, FIDA, 2007 (Español)

Rosemary Vargas-Lundius, IFAD, Rome (Italy) >

Annelou Ypeij, Inter-university Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Female labour force participation

Women's micro-enterprise development

Topic:

The negotiated and participatory land delimitation of the San Community, Angola

Based on:

Cenerini, C., Access to information and institutions. Tales from Angola: San Land Rights in Huila Province, FAO-NRLA, Rome 2007 (forthcoming)

Carolina Cenerini, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory land delimitation

Topic:

Lessons learned on the impact of education on female labour force participation and fertility in Ghana

Based on:

Harry A. Sackey, Female labour force participation in Ghana: the effects of education, AERC Research Paper 150 , African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi , September 2005

Author:

Harry A. Sackey, Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina), Nanaimo, British Columbia (Canada)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Female labour force participation

Topic:

Community-driven development: how can individuals, community-based workers (CBWs) and institutions work effectively in partnership?

Based on:

BCID Research Briefing, December 2007

Bradford Centre for International Development (BCID)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Community Driven Development (CDD)

Topic:

Collective Action for Smallholder Market Access: improving market access for the rural poor

Based on:

Markelova H.; Hellin J.; Meinzen-Dick R.;Dohrn, S., Collective Action for Smallholder Market Access, in Food Policy, special issue on Collective Action and Market Access for Smallholders, 2008 (forthcoming).

Helen Markelova, IFPRI (CGIAR), Washington, DC (USA)

Jonathan Hellin, CIMMYT (CGIAR), Mexico City (Mexico)

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI (CGIAR), Washington, DC (USA)

Stephan Dohrn, IFPRI (CGIAR), Washington, DC (USA)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Group promotion

Collective action for market access

Topic:

Successful involvement of local communities in conservation programmes for Malayan mahseer in River Kinabatangan of Sabah

Based on:

Credit and microfinance needs in inland capture fisheries development and conservation in Asia, Tietze, U.; Siar, S.V.; Marmulla, G.; van Anrooy, R ., FAO Fisheries Technical Papers T460 (Chapter VII).

Mahyam Mohd. Isa

Jephrin Wong

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Tagal system

Topic:

Indigenous Women and the United Nations System. Good practices and lessons learned

Based on:

Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Indigenous Women and the United Nations System. Good Practices and Lessons Learned, 2007.

Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the Task Force on Indigenous Women/Inter-Agency
Network on Women and Gender Equality.

Topic:

Participation: a tool for sustainable territorial development

Based on the outcomes of the Territorial Development Meeting, 8 June 2007 (FAO Headquarters, Rome), organised by FAO-NRLA.

Paolo Groppo, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Massimo Rossi, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Carolina Cenerini, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Topic:

Use of participatory methods for active involvement of all partners in communication

Based on the results of an inter-institutional expert consultation workshop organized by FAO and GTZ.

Riccardo Del Castello, FAO, Rome (Italy)

Paul Mathias Braun, GTZ-Eschborn (Germany)

Topic:

Participatory Research Approaches - What have we learned?

The experience of the DFID Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) Programme 1995-2005

Neiland, Arthur E.; Bennett, Elizabeth; Townsley, Philip

Topic:

Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania (PFM)

Participatory Forest Management (PFM)

Topic:

International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD)

Electronic conferences (before the Conference)

Consultative processes (before the Conference)

Special Thematic Sessions (during the Conference)

Panel discussions (during the Conference)

Plenary sessions (during the Conference)

Forum (during the Conference)

Topic:

Participatory methods to assess traditional breeding systems: The case of cattle breeding in The Gambia

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Group discussions

Focus group

Participatory survey

Matrix rating technique

Assessment of local institutions and organizations

Topic:

Citizen Participation in Lempira Sur

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Participatory diagnosis workshops

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Promotion of interest groups

Creation of Community Development Committees (CODECO)

Constitutional tools such as plebiscite, referendum, etc.

Topic:

Active Participation of the farmer community in the Livestock Disease Surveillance Program in District Sahiwal Punjab (Pakistan)

Participatory Methodology/Approaches:

Discussion groups

Identification of livestock diseases through pictures, cartoons and diagrams

Participatory Epidemiology

Proportional Piling

Village/area Mapping

Seasonal Calendar

Topic:
Lessons learned by the WIN project on livelihoods diversification and enterprise development: An overview of WIN LDED-related activities in Cambodia , Nepal and Zambia , Livelihoods Support Programme (LSP), Working Paper 19

Lessons from WIN Cambodia

Lessons from WIN Nepal

Lessons from WIN Zambia

Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA)

Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops

Participatory extension

Community action planning

Group formation

Participatory Rural Assessments (PRAs)

Grassroots mobilization

Group development

Group discussions

Participatory M&E