Publisher's Synopsis
Community participation or people's participation in the process of development has entered into the development lexicon permanently. New methods, tools, and approaches (variously called Participatory Learning and Action, Participatory Rural Appraisal or its earlier incarnation Rapid Rural Appraisal) to enlist people's participation has been invented, improvised and developed by development practitioners all over the world. This book is a unique exercise in exploration and synthesis, demonstrating and documenting the experiments which have revealed that the participatory tools, methods and approaches can be very efficiently used in several fields of human exploration. Each chapter, dealing with these issues, describes both the process followed in the application of participatory tools and methods in the respective field and the synthesis of the theory of participation with practice as well. This book will be an invaluable guide to practitioners, researchers, academics and students of development economics and poverty planning.
