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

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

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)

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

Topic:

Citizen Participation in Lempira Sur

Topic:

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

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 Rural Assessments (PRAs)

Grassroots mobilization

Group development

Group discussions

Participatory M&E

Authors:

Tom Blomley, Participatory Forest Management Adviser, Forestry and Beekeeping Division, Dar es Salaam

Hadija Ramadhani, Forest Officer (Extension) within the Extension and Publicity Unit of the same Division

FAO Service:

Rural Development Division (SDA)