Nearly five decades of field-tested writing on participatory development. Most titles are free to download below. Eight, several of them published by other organisations, are available on request.
The comprehensive handbook on the Ten Seed Technique (TST), with multiple worked examples from the People's Republic of China.
A practical framework for child participation, drawn from decades of fieldwork: 32 exercises, real case studies, and step-by-step methods for involving children in community development. Covers self-esteem and self-worth, problem analysis, the DEV index for vulnerability, child protection, and monitoring and evaluation carried out by children themselves.
“If you or your organization works with children, you need to have this book and make its contents your own. It helps us take the voice and dreams of children seriously as key contributions to the transformational development process.”Bryant L. Myers, Professor of Transformational Development, Fuller Theological Seminary
A comprehensive book on participatory poverty alleviation and development, with examples and frameworks for development strategies drawn from work in more than ten countries.
A collection of stories of transformation in the lives of individuals and communities, drawn from many years of development work. Each story traces a significant aspect of transformation and is written to challenge the reader to engage in similar work.
How Christian practitioners express authentic holistic transformational development: understanding poverty, participatory learning and action, appreciative inquiry, sustainable economic development, and community transformation in the urban context.
A resource book for field workers facilitating special interest groups across health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, agriculture, natural resource management, literacy, microfinance, and local self-government.
How to work with the urban poor living in slums, and mobilize and engage them to participate actively in their own development process.
How a worldview develops in close correlation to a community's survival strategy. Techniques for carrying out a Holistic Worldview Analysis and measuring what matters in effective Christian witness.
Sustainable enterprise for income generation: integrating supplies, skills, and sales. Profiles of simple enterprises and how to develop them.
A quick run-through of the scope of PRA across relief, community development, health, small enterprise, education, agriculture, watershed development, environment, marketing, forestry, and holistic worldview analysis.
A brief booklet on the use of the Ten Seed Technique, with multiple examples from actual use in the field.
A detailed manual on the use of the TST for food security and development programs.
A step-by-step practitioner's guide to using the TST to identify the most vulnerable families in a community.
A user-friendly manual for project managers in disaster-prone areas, with simple PLA tools and examples from Cambodia and Laos PDR.
How to carry out a rapid socio-economic survey of household food security status.
The food security status of a household is manifest in its house. A rapid assessment method that was later developed into the RFSA (Rapid Household Food Security Assessment) tool.
Research findings from Ban Hai Village on the banks of the Mekong river in Laos PDR, including the final research report and the participatory tools used for rapid assessment of community disaster-response capacity.
The published IIED article on the Wholistic Worldview Analysis, a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and responding to community realities. The original pre-submission article is also available.
Magazine issue focused on the use of the Ten Seed Technique in integrated community development and needs assessment.
A record of new tools developed for use in focus group discussions for HIV/AIDS prevention programs, including techniques for gathering sensitive information.
A comprehensive review of sexual networking patterns of tribal communities in the Navapur region of Maharashtra, with research techniques and methodology.
An evaluation manual produced for UNICEF by a group of monitoring and evaluation experts. The chapter on new tools designed by Ravi Jayakaran appears on page 47.
A tool for assessing the HIV/AIDS situation in a country or region based on the attitudes of NGOs, government, and community. Useful where surveillance figures are unavailable or sensitive to obtain.
A compilation of gender-related learning drawn from country offices around the globe.
A detailed narrative profile of the Apatug Total Health Village, drawing on secondary data and focus group discussions from a series of PLA exercises. The PLA outputs presentation is also available in Spanish.
A detailed analysis of the FAITH project, which later became Puniya Liu, an organization promoting holistic integrated development in Cambodia.
The recorded outputs of the participatory exercises conducted for a needs assessment in Kilonga Total Health Village, Kenya.
The THV Tello cluster in Indonesia, with two example villages from the cluster.
Demographic information collected from the community and the sequence of exercises leading to a Holistic Worldview Analysis for planning a Total Health Village.
The Spanish version of the presentation on the Ten Seed Technique.
A presentation on the moringa plant, which has multiple uses and can be grown in most developing countries.
A one-page mind map of the issues related to corporate social responsibility.
An article on addressing poverty through participatory learning, prepared for the Lausanne Congress held in South Africa in October 2010.
The use of the HWVA tool to mobilize corporate community empowerment.
A brief exploration of the issues of poverty and wealth, proposing a new and appropriate definition for both terms.
A brief booklet for young people seeking God's will related to marriage.
Life is made up of little things. This is especially true of marriage and the important things a couple experience as they learn from one another.
