| People - Participation |
| Monitoring and evaluating stakeholder participation in agriculture and rural development projects: a literature review |
| This article reviews the current literature on the subject, and also highlights three key methodological issues to be addressed: how to assess the degree and quality of participation; how to measure the costs and benefits of participation to the stakeholders involved; and how to assess the impact of that participation on desired project outputs, project performance and sustainability. An annotated... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Why People's Participation? |
| According to this article, the lesson is clear: "Unless the rural poor are given the means to participate fully in development, they will continue to be excluded from its benefits". This realization is provoking new interest in an alternative rural development strategy, that of people's participation through organizations controlled and financed by the poor. The article is based on Chapter 1 of "P... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0001.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Institutions - Social capital |
| Participation in practice: Lessons from the FAO People's Participation Programme |
| Rural development efforts have failed to deliver on their promises. One evaluation found that half of rural development projects funded by the World Bank in Africa were outright failures. A review of assistance to agricultural cooperatives reported similar results. A study by the International Labour Organisation of "poverty-oriented" projects worldwide showed that the poorest were excluded from a... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0044.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| Monitoring and evaluating stakeholder participation in agriculture and rural development projects: a literature review |
| The article provides a critical review of the current literature on the subject and also highlights three key methodological issues to be addressed: how to assess the degree and quality of participation; how to measure the costs and benefits of participation to the stakeholders involved; and how to assess the impact of that participation on desired project outputs, project performance and sustaina... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
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| People - Participation |
| An inter-agency initiative to better understand Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA) and their usefulness for our work |
| An inter-agency (FAO, WFP, IFAD, UNDP, DFID) initiative on "Operationalizing Participatory Ways of Applying Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA)" was launched in the fall of 1999. The core message of SL approaches is that the livelihoods of poor people must be at the centre of any strategy for poverty reduction. This paper discusses SL approaches and rural development and provides an overview... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0069.htm |
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