This study analyzed the sustainable changes induced by "Banikoara Millennium Village Project" on rural poverty reduction. Using purposive sampling method, 126 household heads were selected from three project beneficiary villages and one non- village. Data was collected through focus group discussions a structured questionnaire which processed using descriptive statistics. The results showed tha...

BACKGROUND: Participatory simulation (PS) is a method that can be used to integrate ergonomics and safety into workplace design projects. Previous studies have mainly focused on tools methods for the activities. The subsequent process of transferring integrating outcomes workplaces poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: This study sets out role actors objects in transfer knowledge generated PS events in...

Participatory project planning is a collaborative approach that involves stakeholders in the design and decision-making process of donor-funded projects. It ensures perspectives needs beneficiaries are taken into account, leading to more effective sustainable outcomes. By engaging from outset, participatory promotes transparency, accountability, ownership among all parties involved. This inclus...

Managing water for sustainable use and economic development is both a technical and a governance challenge in which knowledge production and sharing play a central role. This article evaluates and compares the role of participatory governance and scientific information in decision-making in four basins in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States. Water management institutions in each of ...

Increasingly, natural resource conservation programs refer to participation and local community involvement as one of the necessary prerequisites for sustainable resource management. In frameworks of adaptive comanagement, the theory of participatory conservation plays a central role in the democratization of decisionmaking authority and equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. We observ...

OBJECTIVES This article reviews an evaluation vector model driven from a participatory action research leveraging a collective inquiry system named SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment). METHODS SMILE has been implemented in a diverse set of collective inquiry generation and analysis scenarios including community health care-specific professional development sessions and ...

This pilot study of a school-based telepractice pilot project in a rural, remote county of North Carolina investigated the satisfaction of parents/caregivers, teachers, and administrators with a year-long telespeech therapy program delivered by a university clinic. Upon completion of the almost year-long project, a satisfaction survey incorporating a 5-point equal-appearing Likert scale (1= str...

Different researchers have focused on complementary aspects of enduser development. For example, some people work on tool-building while others explore different models for participatory programming. This workshop will focus discussion on identifying opportunities for collaboration, particularly between European and American research groups. Submitted position papers have revealed three topics ...

Background: Local, state, and federal governments have started exploring the potential of crowdfunding in transforming conventional financing methods used previously to fund public projects and services. While crowdfunding has been applied to improve government financing methods in recent years, little is known about how this new model can be extended and applied in international collaboration ...