WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
Do you work with cross-cutting participatory practices – participatory approaches, methods, tools, principles and concepts – in your work?
Are you a practitioner, academic, researcher, community leader/mobiliser or policy-maker who realizes the need for ‘grounding’ your understanding and activities in the grassroots?
Do you want to share your experiences and make it available to a wider audience?
PRACTICE IN PARTICIPATION is the platform for you!
A hybrid between an online resource junction and an interactive forum, the portal is:
›› | A RESOURCE CENTRE of concepts, principles, frameworks, methodologies, tools and examplars for practitioners of participatory praxis globally. This will make available to a wider audience the work being done by grassroots organizations and practitioners who use participatory methodologies to bring about social change. |
›› | A PLATFORM for exchanging voices, illustrations, innovations and challenges when participatory practices have made a difference in the lives of excluded citizens around the world by harvesting local knowledge from across the global South and North. |
›› | A MECHANISM to articulate knowledge and synthesis of experiences from transformative practices hitherto not accessible to others. It provides a rhythm and space for participatory practitioners to reflect on their practice – through discussion forums, and building communities of shared practice. |
Become a member of PRACTICE IN PARTICIPATION and:
›› | Improve the impact of your work through reflection and horizontal learning with the communities in which you are working |
›› | Weave individual learning into organizational learning and catalyse social change through individual change |
›› | Motivate local communities, in particular the disadvantaged and marginalized, to value their local knowledge. |
›› | By valuing their own knowledge, you will enable them to be primary actors in changing their own lives – demand better services, governance, transparency and their rights from their governments. |
›› | Document local knowledge, keeping it “alive” and prevent its erosion and loss. |
›› | Access experiences from other locations leading to awareness generation. |
›› | Promote the culture of sharing knowledge (rather than knowledge being the monopoly of a few, to be transmitted by some, on the payment of fees). |
The first impetus for change comes from the communities themselves and it is in this tradition and time that we develop the spirit of participation to the next level: virtual spaces for participation! As an active member undertake this journey of making PRACTICE IN PARTICIPATION truly participatory in spirit by sharing knowledge resources, co-creating new knowledge and initiating discussions.
By becoming a member you can join a community and post comments and reactions to discussions in the communities and forums. To become a member, Sign Up.