Participation for Development: A Resource Book on Strategy, Programmes and Procedures

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The main objective of this book is to delineate the meanings of "participation and development" and reemphasise their growing relevance in the present situation. One more objective is to reaffirm the faith in people and their democratic participation in all decision-making processes relating to their development and empowerment. Another objective is to help the concerned individuals and institutions in understanding the concepts of development and participation identifying strategy, technique and resources required for achieving development goals through participation process. The book is organised in seven chapters and contains two appendices and three annexures. The book is the result of a growing demand from NGOs, development agencies and different social interest groups’ for conceptual clarity, information requirements for undertaking development tasks and its implementation through people’s genuine participation at grassroots level.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kanta Rehman

Dr. Kanta Rehman is a faculty member of Indian Institute of Human Rights, New Delhi. Her fields of specialization are participatory rural development, community development and human rights. She has also conducted various evaluation studies related to income generating programmes, district primary education programme, and national literacy programme at the grassroots level in rural India. She has done indepth study of urban slum dwellers working as a researcher as well as a coordinator in action work in various slums of Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Bombay with various national and international level NGOs. She has also written a number of articles and is co-author of various books.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.M. Rehman

M.M. Rehman is Fellow at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. He is author of several books and research reports on various aspects of Indian labour scenario.