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Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2002.Description: xi, 212 pagesISBN:
  • 9781853838996
  • 1853838993
  • 9781853838941
  • 1853838942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5 KNO
Contents:
The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee -- Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer -- Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello -- Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Ahmed Adan [and others] -- Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers -- Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel.
Summary: The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume contributions from re.
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The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee --
Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer --
Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello --
Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Ahmed Adan [and others] --
Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers --
Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel.


The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume contributions from re.

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