Think live, interactive, collaborative, participatory, all terms that transcend ego and personal gain.
The results of this study suggest the relevance and value of long-term participatory studies to complement short-terms academic studies of biodiversity and natural resource use and management.
Few studies have assessed the effective gains achieved by collaborative decentralized participatory breeding, in terms of yield and other agronomic traits, in comparison with centralized conventional breeding using the same breeding schemes.
"There has to be a participatory process in terms of developing allowance policies.
As one person noted: "There has to be a participatory process in terms of developing allowance policies.
There, therefore, appears to be merit in trying to combine the longer term, participatory health communication approaches with the more short-term communication principle for disease outbreaks and emergencies, into a broader framework for strategic communication for disease outbreaks.
Kothapally's progress didn't happen overnight, but it shows how a long-term participatory approach can really work.
It might serve another purpose, too, by encouraging NGOs to jettison the bad habits encouraged by over-competition and short-term funding so they can finally bring their emergency work in line with their advocacy for long-term, participatory development.
Decide what will happen when you go This might not apply to one-off projects but financial sustainability is often the biggest problem when organisations retreat from long-term participatory development and hand the projects over to participants without having considered whether the project is viable without donor funding.
For any estate to undergo truly effective regeneration – which, for instance, brings tenants' pay and employment rates closer to average levels for the wider area and increases their desire to stay there – it has to be a long-term, participatory project.
