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Frequently Asked Questions


How can I contribute to the Participation Website?

Where can I find a specific participatory field tool, method or approach?

Where can I find a specific FAO publication dealing with participatory processes?

How can I subscribe to the PRA-NET mailing list?

Is it possible to obtain financial support?

How and where do I apply for a job with FAO?

How can I become a member of IWG-PA, the Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security?

I have problems submitting a new field tool, method, approach, link. What can I do?

More FAQs regarding FAO.


How can I contribute to the Participation Website?

You have the opportunity of contributing in several ways:

  • Present your own work on participatory approaches/ methods. To fill in the online questionnaire click here.

  • Present your own work on participatory tools. To fill in the online questionnaire click here.

  • Include relevant FAO publications in the Participation Library. Click here to go the Participation Library where you will find a link to the online questionnaire.

  • Click here to write an article to present your "Lessons Learned" regarding participatory approaches/ processes within the context of a certain programme/ project, or while applying specific methods/ tools in a certain sector/ on a certain topic.

  • Submit relevant links to other websites and organizations that deal with participation in development.

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Where can I find a specific participatory field tool, method or approach?

For a collection of participatory field tools, methods and approaches developed or applied by FAO and outside FAO, please click here. This database offers a number of detailed search options - yet in a simple and user-friendly way - it enables the user to find the very instrument that matches his application context best.

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Where can I find a specific FAO publication dealing with participatory processes?

For a detailed annotated bibliographical database of FAO publications dealing with participatory topics, click here. You have the possibility to search the library using a variety of powerful keyword combinations, and to view the availability of returned titles.

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How can I subscribe to the PRA-NET mailing list?

Unfortunately the PRA-Net-Notice-L is primarily for participants from the Rome-based UN agencies.
However, an interactive multilingual (English, Spanish, French and Arabic) Discussion Section is now online. You have the opportunity to take part in a world wide exchange on participation in development topics. Click here to visit the Discussion Section.

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Is it possible to obtain financial support?

The Participation Website Team is not in a position to provide any financial support, moreover FAO does not have funds available to support individual requests. The FAO Fellowship programme is a world-wide endeavour and all awards form an integral part of technical assistance projects. As such projects are agreed upon in advance by the government of recipient developing countries, the donors and FAO, it is not possible for the Organization to consider individual requests.

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How and where do I apply for a job with FAO?

Click here to find information about current vacancies, Partnership Programmes and the Associate Professional Officer programme.

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How can I become a member of the Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security (IWG-PA)?

Unfortunately, membership of the IWG-PA is limited to staff from the Rome-based UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP).

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I have problems submitting a new field tool, method, approach, link. What can I do?

Please contact: .

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More FAQs regarding FAO.

Please visit the FAO FAQs.

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