Participatory Learning and Action 52:

Participatory Learning and Action 52: General Issue
IIED, August 2005, 96pp,
Price: $32.00

Editors: Nicole Kenton , Angela Milligan and Holly Ashley

Summary

Participatory Learning and Action 52 is a general issue. It includes a wide selection of articles, extracts and training tips from participatory practitioners around the world:

• developing paralegal extension services in Cameroon ;

• using PRA with disabled people to promote social inclusion in India ;

• management innovations in government agricultural extension services in Namibia ;

• participatory land use planning processes with land reform groups in South Africa ;

• raising awareness of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS with Maasai communities in Tanzania ;

• supporting village-level projects with a conservation programme in Tibet ;

• involving children in municipal planning in Turkey ; and,

• community-based planning for a road improvement scheme in the UK .

This issue also includes a selection of five extracts from Robert Chamber's new book ‘Ideas for Development’ published by Earthscan Ltd. Training tips include Reflect approaches to numeracy and running participatory photographic workshops.

CONTENTS

Editorial

1. Working towards inclusion: experiences with disability and PRA

Alice Morris, Geeta Sharma, and Deepa Sonpal

2. Paralegal extension in North-West Cameroon

Nuhu Salihu and Sam Hickey

3. Transformations

Robert Chambers

4. Participatory management in public extension services

Miguel Loureiro

5. Participatory photography: children's voices in municipal planning

Fahriye Sancar