Towards participatory communal appraisal

Disability, Social Policy and the Burden of Disease: Creating an “Assertive” Community Mental Health System in New York

“…That is, to take uncritical responsibility for the health and well-being of people deemed incapable of taking care of themselves sets up endless opportunities for oppressive, colonizing, disempowering and iatrogenic treatment patterns and legislation. The Coalition recognizes that the voices, experiences and insights of those being served must be included when service delivery programs are being developed [52,53]. Since the most successful action plans are developed collaboratively with the clients being served [51], the Coalition is now calling its clients "consumers"-an indication of empowerment and entitlement to make choices about what constitutes adequate care.…”

Banking for the Poor: Addressing the Needs of Financially Excluded Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne

“…This aimed to examine the extent of the perceived gap in fi nancial service provision in West End communities; document the range of services that were available; explore perceived problems with this provision; and assess the demand for future fi nancial service provision by undertaking a need analysis for future potential service provision requirements. The consultation exercise was based around the use of participatory appraisal (PA), a methodology that is strongly communityoriented and 'bottom-up' in its generation of information (see Freire, 1985;Chambers, 1994;Bock, 2001;Caldwell et al, 2003;.…”

Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

“…These approaches emphasize the involvement of stakeholders in the construction of evaluation designs, the creation of success indicators, and the modification of the initiative's goals over the life of the activity. This tends to create a more "organic" assessment of problems and needs, and makes practitioners more accountable to the community at which the initiative is targeted (Bock 2001). Participatory approaches to CR/PB evaluation also help to overcome the challenge of devising culturally appropriate evaluation models and debunk the myth that evaluation is a Western practice that misses the nuances of the cultural variation across conflict zones.…”