Integration and assessment of participatory approaches in development projects
- Publikations-Art
- Kongressbeitrag
- Autoren
- Wolff, H.-P. und W. Doppler
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2003
- Veröffentlicht in
- Pre-Proceedings Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension, Local Identities and Globalisation
- Seite (von - bis)
- 1-9
- Tagungsname
- Fifth International Farming Systems Association European Symposium
- Tagungsort
- Florenz, Italien
- Tagungsdatum
- 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.