Integration and assessment of participatory approaches in development projects
- Publication Type
- Contribution to conference
- Authors
- Wolff, H.-P. und W. Doppler
- Year of publication
- 2003
- Published in
- Pre-Proceedings Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension, Local Identities and Globalisation
- Page (from - to)
- 1-9
- Conference name
- Fifth International Farming Systems Association European Symposium
- Conference location
- Florenz, Italien
- Conference date
- 08.-11.04.2002
Starting with the activist participatory research in the late 1960s participation of beneficiaries became a keyword in the relations between target groups of development projects, donors and implementing organizations. Definitions of participation, applied participatory approaches and their perception by the involved parties, however, vary widely. This paper has two objectives. First, it will give a brief overview on how participatory elements may be integrated in the different stages of development projects. Second, it presents a comparative approach for evaluating the success and perception of participation by the different players in the context of a project. An empirical example from Burkina Faso serves for demonstrating the evaluation approach.