It was during the Mad Hatter's tea party that he said to Alice, "please have some more", to which Alice replied, "I haven't had any, so how can I have more." This was Lewis Carol, the mathematician ...

One of the most interesting aspects of this placement was the opportunity to work with the Communauté de Base (COBA), a local organization which is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of ...

When researchers want to understand children’s health, the most radical thing they can do may be the simplest: ask children ...

One cannot expect positive results from a programme which fails to respect the views of people it aims to help. Anna Colom explains how to do participation well While I was researching the potential ...

With disaster relief overwhelmingly channeled through international NGOs and focused on immediate needs, it's time to rethink our approach to crisis philanthropy. Women of Juchitán in the Mexican ...

People who are impoverished or disempowered have insights and powers that are vital to our understanding and to our acting together on the political, cultural and economic conditions that keep them in ...

Participatory approaches in organic crop breeding unite scientific expertise and farmer knowledge to develop varieties tailored to the complex conditions of organic systems. By engaging farmers, ...

Participatory training programmes are increasingly applied in Asia for supporting grassroots initiatives in informal economy workplaces to improve safety, health and working conditions. These ...

For those of us who have participated in a half-century of powerful activism by people with disabilities, a familiar slogan summarizes our call to action: Nothing about us without us. As a woman of ...