PLA 50: Critical reflections, future directions
This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action celebrates 50 editions.
- Participatory Learning and Action: a journal for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike
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October 2004
Guest editors: Robert Chambers, Nicole Kenton and Holly Ashley
As the scope and use of participatory approach becomes more popular and widespread, this publication provides a timely and challenging critique and looks ahead to ask: what next for participation?
Previous guest editors and authors pool their experience and expertise, and provide an up-to-date picture of developments in participatory approaches in their particular fields, including education and literacy, health and sexual reproductive health, natural resource management, agriculture, urban issues, children's participation, advocacy and rights, local government and deliberative democracy, gender, PM&E, communications, critical analysis, scaling up and institutionalising, and participation in the North.
The issue also includes extended Tips for Trainers, In Touch, E-participation and RCPLA Pages sections, as well as general articles.
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Contents
Editorial
Critical reflections, future directions
Foreword
Jenny Rietbergen-McCracken
Critical reflections, future directions: an overview
Nicole Kenton and Holly Ashley
Reflections and directions: a personal note
Robert Chambers
Participation, literacy and empowerment: the continuing evolution of Reflect
David Archer and Nandago Maria Goreth
Voices aloud: making communication and change together
Oga Steve Abah
Reflections on gender and participatory development
Nazneen Kanji
Not for children only: lessons learnt from young people's participation
Louise Chawla and Vicky Johnson
Participation in sexual and reproductive well-being and rights
Gill Gordon and Andrea Cornwall
Gender, participation, health and positive thinking: a personal perspective
Alice Welbourn
Participatory methods and the measurement of well-being
Sarah White and Jethro Pettit
Rights, advocacy and participation - what's working?
Jethro Pettit and Sammy Musyoki
Completing the globe: tackling poverty and injustice in the North
Charlotte Flower and Vicky Johnson
Tools and methods for empowerment developed by slum and pavement dwellers' federations in India
Sheela Patel
Natural resources, people and participation
Michel Pimbert
Shifting perceptions, changing practices in PRA: from infinite innovation to the quest for quality
Andrea Cornwall and Irene Guijt
Regina's Participatory Learning and Action illustration challenge
Regina Faul-Doyle
General section
Beyond continuum thinking: participatory development is possible even in wartimes!
Benedikt Korf
Participatory monitoring of sanitation: Wotawati hamlet, Pucung, Indonesia
Kumala Sari and the Pradipta Paramitha Team
From MPA to NPA: Participatory assessment of water & sanitation projects in rural Nepal
AJ James, Raju Khadka, Michelle Moffatt and Corine Otte
Tips for trainers: this section includes:
- Quoting the issues, Alice Welbourne
- Photographs, Reflect
- Ground rules, Andrea Cornwall and Gill Gordon
- Fishbowl, Gill Gordon
- Ranking lines: exploring local indicators of wealth and health, Vicky Johnson and Robert Nurick
- In Touch