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The
FAO
Participation website is launching their first newsletter-
Let's Participate
Let’s
Participate
No. 1, July 2004
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This
is FAO’s Participation Website E-Newsletter, which will
keep you up to date with the website’s new resources.
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IN
THIS ISSUE:
1) New section on Sustainable Livelihoods
2) New Resource CD-ROM on Participatory Approaches, Methods,
Tools
3) Participation Website Evaluation Report
4) Highlights of the Library Section
5) Highlights of the Websites Section
6) Submit your documents, lessons learned, tools…
7) ¡Participemos! El Boletín en español
8) Participons ensemble! La e-newsletter aux français
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1)
New section on Sustainable Livelihoods
The
FAO Participation Website now offers a section dedicated to
FAO Programmes, Projects and Activities that apply livelihoods
perspectives. The section is available in English, French
and Spanish. Go to http://www.fao.org/participation/SL/SL_index.htm
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2)
New Resource CD on Participatory Approaches, Methods and Tools
The
FAO Participation Website Team has just produced a resource
CD that includes:
A
field tools database of 135 participatory approaches, methods
and field tools, developed or applied by FAO and other organizations.
A
selection of 215 FAO documents extracted from the Participation
Website’s annotated library database and sorted according
to a set of different category lists. The publications are
available as full-text documents in either in PDF, HTML or
Microsoft Word format.
Should
you wish to receive a CD-ROM please contact IWG-PA-Webbox@fao.org
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3) Participation Website Evaluation Report
This paper provides the results of the evaluation of the FAO
Participation Website, carried out from June until September
2003. The Participation Team would like to thank all those
who filled in the evaluation questionnaire.
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4) In the Library section, we highlight some examples of newly
received publications:
Local
institutions and livelihoods: guidelines for analysis. These
guidelines help development workers to understand the role
of local institutions better - what is it they do? Who exactly
do they serve and how? How do they change over time? How can
they be strengthened and made more equitable? How can they
be made more accessible for the poor? They are based on the
pilot experience of a research programme of FAO’s Rural
Development Division which aimed at developing a new methodological
framework for understanding the linkages between rural household
livelihoods, income strategies and local institutional environments.
Community-based
forest resource conflict management. Volume 1 & 2. The
training package aims to support diverse and multiple forest
user groups to manage conflicts that inevitably arise in the
protection, use and control of forest resources. A related
goal is to strengthen participation and, thus, the role and
recognition of local stakeholders (forest-dependent communities)
in forest management.
The
Farmers' Life School Manual. “The Farmers' Life School
Manual” is a joint publication of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), FAO and World Education, for
use by facilitators of the Farmers’ Life School who have
graduated from a Farmers’ Field School and a Farmers’
Life School, by adult educators or NGOs and community-based
organizations with experience in participatory learning and
people interested in introducing the Farmers’ Life School
course into their own programmes. The Farmers’ Life School
can be used in either community-based programmes or it can
be adapted for formal educational settings.
Preparing
Microproject Proposals to Improve Household Food Security
and Nutrition. This manual, which complements the previous
“Guidelines for Participatory Nutrition Projects”,
provides field workers and communities with a tool to develop
feasible micro projects and translate them into proposals
for submission to potential donors.
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5) In the Websites section we highlight the following site:
Resource
Portal on Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning.
The portal provides practical information on how to facilitate
participatory learning processes with various stakeholders.
It provides theoretical foundations, methods and tools to
create learning processes, facilitation tips, examples, literature
and links. Relevant for consultants, project and training
courses managers.
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6) Submit your documents, lessons learned, tools…
Fill
out the questionnaires in the Library or Field Tools sections
of FAO’s Participation Website, which is located at http://www.fao.org/participation/
or contribute to any of our sections by sending an email to
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