Resources Tagged: Citizen Participation
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Access Agriculture Training Video The international organic certification system can be bureaucratic and expensive, and beyond the reach of smallholder ecological farmers who produce for the local market. In many countries, Participatory Guarantee Systems, or PGS, are emerging as an alternative...
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01.01.1987 This book describes the simplest, most effective ways to address hunger in your community, your counry and around the world. Proven, time-tested ideas - how to start a soup kitchen or night shelter, volunteer overseas, raise money, influence local, state and federal government policies and many...
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01.01.2019 Public participation in forestry is a key issue in ensuring the democratization of decision-making processes, increasing the social acceptance of policies, and reducing conflicts between forest users. Public participation also provides an opportunity for the improvement of the quality of...
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01.01.1997 En este capitulo de introduccion, se presentan algunos lineamientos generales sobre la practica de la participacion: sus difiniciones, las caracteristicas generales de los metodos participativos presentados en este libro, y las necesiadades de cambio en las practicas de trabajo para permitir...
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20.05.2021 LEGS Participation Mini Module Suji Omeno In this Mini Module, LEGS provides key techniques to aid and facilitate community participation. Some of the techniques includeFocus Group Discussions,Key Informant Interviews,Proportional Piling, Simple Ranking,Pairwise Ranking,Matrix Scoring,Historical...
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A key objective in piloting Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) in Kenya and Tanzania was to support empowerment of pastoral women – to improve access to material, human and social resources; to enable women to have greater control over setting goals and taking action to achieve them; and to...
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01.01.1999 Shaping Forest Management argues that participation is now essential to contemporary forest management, details some benefits of participation, including the conservation of natural resources and the fostering of sustainable rural livelihoods, discusses the importance of effective management...
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This book seeks to contribute to ongoing debates about different approaches to agricultural technology development and transfer. One central theme in these debates relates to the value and potential contribution of what is widely referred to as 'indigenous technical knowlege," or local knowledge...
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01.01.1992 This study lays the groundwork for providing the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and other agencies with information about what is needed to develop and implement integrated conservation development projects in the future. It highlights the...