Community participation in international development education quality improvement efforts: current paradoxes and opportunities

Kendall, Nancy; Kaunda, Zikani; Friedson-Rideneur, Sophia

doi:10.1007/s11092-015-9210-0

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“…Presenting an alternative to positivist-based social research, PAR shifted the researcher's role from that of an objective outsider describing and explaining phenomena to someone who actively works with disempowered communities to effect positive change (Brydon-Miller, Greenwood, & Maguire, 2003;Shantz, 2008). By the 1990s, community participation and its PAR embodiment had become an increasingly codified and mainstream practice in international development projects (Kendall, Kaunda, & Friedson-Rideneur, 2015;Leal, 2007).…”

Section: Recovery Of Participatory Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory shaping of community futures in e‐waste processing hubs: Complexity, conflict and stewarded convergence in a Palestinian context

Davis

Garb

2018

Development Policy Review

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This article describes an unconventional participatory development approach carried out in an informal e‐waste hub in South‐West Hebron, an area that has collected and processed the bulk of Israeli e‐waste for over a decade. Our approach contributes to the critique and recovery of community representation in participatory development and the search for ways to facilitate representative community engagement. Specifically, we describe our use of a novel Delphi‐like method that allowed us to facilitate a broadly endorsed development trajectory within a heterogeneous and conflicted community. We show how the results yielded by this approach diverged from those that were likely to emerge from more facile forms of participation in ways that are important for other similar e‐waste hubs internationally, which face a destructive status quo on the one hand, or the economically ruinous international policies that ban e‐waste trade from “developed” to “developing” countries on the other. Despite real tensions and cleavages within the affected communities, the process described facilitated a shift from deadlocked environmental versus livelihood positions towards building capacity and regulating existing informal e‐waste trades to preserve livelihoods dependent on these.

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Section: Recovery Of Participatory Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory shaping of community futures in e‐waste processing hubs: Complexity, conflict and stewarded convergence in a Palestinian context

Davis

Garb

2018

Development Policy Review

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“…Impact on political activities. HEC Foundation and of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Academic investigators Kendall 2015 [ 18 ] Malawi Survey, data collection (5 sites) Qualitative + descriptive quantitative Impact on democratic processes relating to the school, local communities and funding bodies. TAG Philanthropic Foundation Academic investigators McNulty 2015 [ 43 ] Peru Interviews (n = unclear), government data Single case study Participation in PB by women.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Twenty-three evaluations were case studies providing descriptive analyses of single ( n = 10) or multiple ( n = 13) instances of PB. The methods used for these case studies included participant observation ( n = 9) [ 34 – 38 ], interviews ( n = 15) [ 18 , 34 – 46 ], surveys of PB participants and PB officials ( n = 14) [ 18 , 19 , 34 – 37 , 39 , 42 , 46 – 51 ], or descriptive analysis of municipal data ( n = 6) [ 17 , 19 , 20 , 40 , 41 , 43 ], fifteen studies applied various combinations of these methods.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between PB and further involvement in political or civic activities was explored in six studies [ 30 , 31 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 42 , 51 ], sometimes reporting that the individuals engaging in PB were already involved in other civil society organisations. Changes in how people acted in political arenas as a result of PB were examined by nine studies [ 18 , 30 , 32 , 36 , 39 , 42 , 44 , 46 , 48 ], tending to report positive impacts. Learning about political processes as a result of engagement in PB was examined by four case studies [ 19 , 37 , 42 , 52 ], in general reporting some increased learning of political processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Poverty rates in municipalities implementing PB were assessed by two studies in Brazil, both of which reported reductions in poverty [ 8 , 9 ]. Education, measured as either child or adult literacy or years of school attendance, was investigated by two quantitative observational studies and one case study, with mixed results [ 9 , 18 , 24 ]. Access to sanitation, piped water supply and sewerage, was measured by one observational study and one case study, reporting positive results [ 8 , 39 ].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The impact of participatory budgeting on health and wellbeing: a scoping review of evaluations

et al. 2018

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BackgroundParticipatory budgeting (PB), citizens deliberating among themselves and with officials to decide how to allocate funds for public goods, has been increasingly implemented across Europe and worldwide. While PB is recommended as good practice by the World Bank and the United Nations, with potential to improve health and wellbeing, it is unclear what evaluations have been conducted on the impact of PB on health and wellbeing.MethodsFor this scoping review, we searched 21 databases with no restrictions on publication date or language. The search term ‘participatory budget’ was used as the relevant global label for the intervention of interest. Studies were included if they reported original analysis of health, social, political, or economic and budgetary outcomes of PB. We examined the study design, analysis, outcomes and location of included articles. Findings are reported narratively.ResultsFrom 1458 identified references, 37 studies were included. The majority of evaluations (n = 24) were of PB in South America, seven were in Europe. Most evaluations were case studies (n = 23) conducting ethnography and surveys, focussing on political outcomes such as participation in PB or impacts on political activities. All of the quantitative observational studies analysing population level data, except one in Russia, were conducted in South America.ConclusionDespite increasing interest in PB, evaluations applying robust methods to analyse health and wellbeing outcomes are scarce, particularly beyond Brazil. Therefore, implementation of PB schemes should be accompanied by rigorous qualitative and quantitative evaluation to identify impacts and the processes by which they are realised.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5735-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Decolonial Approaches to AIDS, Children’s Wellbeing, and Education in Malawi

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Kendall

Majee

2019

Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies

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Community participation in international development education quality improvement efforts: current paradoxes and opportunities

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Participatory shaping of community futures in e‐waste processing hubs: Complexity, conflict and stewarded convergence in a Palestinian context

Participatory shaping of community futures in e‐waste processing hubs: Complexity, conflict and stewarded convergence in a Palestinian context

The impact of participatory budgeting on health and wellbeing: a scoping review of evaluations

Decolonial Approaches to AIDS, Children’s Wellbeing, and Education in Malawi

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