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Participatory Learning and Action 53: Tools for influencing power and policy

IIED, December 2005, 96pp, Price: $32.00
Guest editor: Sonja Vermeulen

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PLA 53 is guest-edited by Sonja Vermeulen with articles written by eight partners from the Power Tools project.

Many people's lives involve the day-to-day management of natural resources. Such intimate interaction creates awareness of the technical, social and political obstacles to good management. Yet many of these people never have the opportunity to contribute to the definition of policies and institutions that govern their use of natural resources. The policy gap between the powerful and marginalised does not just involve the lack of available channels for participatory dialogue. Even when such channels exist, communication may fail due to fundamental differences in perception, expression and power between groups.

The Power Tools initiative set out to develop, test and circulate existing and new tools to bridge some of the key gaps in policy processes and content. These policy tools - tips, tactics and approaches - are designed to provide some practical help to people working to improve the policies and institutions that govern access to and use of natural resources.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

THEME SECTION

1. Power tools for participatory learning and action

by Sonja Vermeulen

2. Power Tool: Accessing 'public' information

3. Information as power: making best use of India's Right to Information Law

by Sharmistha Bose, Pankaj Lal and Sushil Saigal

4. Power Tool: Legal literacy camps

5. Law for the people: interactive approaches to legal literacy in India

by Sanjay Upadhyay

6. Power Tool: Associations for business partnership

7. Stronger by association - strengthening the position of small and medium-scale forest enterprise in the Brazilian Amazon

by Duncan Macqueen, Luciene Figueiredo, Frank Merry and Noemi Porro

8. Power Tool: Speaking for ourselves

9. It works! Speaking for ourselves - a development dialogue tool

by Semalign Belay, Ismael Haro and Ben Irwin

10. Power Tool: Family portraits

11. Family portraits in Mali, Kenya and Tanzania

by Katherine Cochrane

12. Power Tool: Interactive radio drama

13. Creating stakeholder ownership of biodiversity planning: lessons from India

by Tejaswini Apte

14. Power Tool: Improving forest justice

15. Routes to justice: institutionalising participation in forest law enforcement

by Cornelius Kazoora, Charles Tondo and Bob Kazungu

GENERAL SECTION

16. Integrating Open Space Technology and Dynamic Facilitation

by Phil Howard, Tim Galarneau, Jan Perez and Dave Shaw

17. Methodological diversity and creativity in agricultural innovation systems

by Paul Van Mele and Ann Braun

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