Participatory Learning and Action 56

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PLA 56IIED, June 2007, 72pp. Price $32.00

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This issue contains a range of articles of general interest to participatory practitioners.

Themes covered include: sequential steps for empowering rural communities for local development; participatory monitoring and evaluation in Bangalore; participatory approaches to public accountability in Ghana; using participatory video for monitoring and evaluation; participatory systemisation; wholistic worldview analysis; and children's participation in governance and decision making. Tips for trainers describes the action learning of capacity building in systemisation methodologies. The issue also includes the regular In Touch section.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

1. Sequential steps for empowering community organisations for local development
by Anil C Shah

2. Moving forwards with participatory monitoring and evaluation
by Karen Hillyer and Simone Purohit

3. Holding service providers to account: community scorecards and district-level
forums

by Clement A. Akasoba and Lance W. Robinson

4. The Most Significant Change: using participatory video for monitoring and
evaluation

by Chris Lunch

5. From participatory systematisation to a regional network for policy change
by Frances Hansford, Virginia Araújo Lima Santana, and Gérman Hilares Reinoso

6. Wholistic worldview analysis: understanding community realities
by Ravi Jayakaran

7. Children in the driver’s seat

by PJ Lolichen with Anuradha Shetty, Jyoti Shenoy and Christie Nash

TIPS FOR TRAINERS

8. Reflective action-learning: building capacity in systematisation methodologies

by Frances Hansford and Manuel Llanos

In Touch

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