background: community-based participatory research (cbpr) increasingly is being used to address health issues. few evidence exist to indicate how builds the capacity of communities to function as health promoter and what resources are required to promote successful efforts. this article presents the result of a capacity assessment for preventing drug abuse through cbpr, which working with rathe...

The Iranian government has placed new emphasis on urban renewal through participatory approaches in recent years. The main target areas are called deteriorated urban fabrics, characterized by micro-lots, impenetrability, and lack of sustainability. In Tehran, renovation of deteriorate urban fabrics has been initiated through dedicated neighborhood facilitation offices. This paper analyzes the a...

in 2000, an evaluation of iranian elementary education revealed that it did not successfully prepare students for the future. the failure was attributed to the teacher centered, content-oriented education system. in 2001, the iranian ministry of education began a pilot project that introduced an alternative curriculum, known as “global education,” with unicef’s participation. global education, ...

the main purpose of this study was analyzingthe promoting factors of the developmentin participatory irrigation managementin the irrigation network of miandarband villages located in kermanshah county. the research population consisted of all beneficiaries of this area (n=417). by using the cochran's formula, 126 people were chosen through a random stratified sampling method with appropria...

Purpose: Participatory governance provides policymakers with a special tool to address broad issues. Problems that the cost of failure to answer is high and a large number of actors are responsible for solving them and is effective in solving complex problems. On the other hand, we see every day that the executive apparatus and government organizations are looking for a solution to specific pro...

Over the past seven years, we have been conducting a variety of participatory design activities with research biologists, programmers, and bioinformaticians at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. We first describe the history of these activities and how they have created the beginnings of a participatory design culture. We introduce participatory programming, which integrates participatory design an...

The Making Design and Analysing Interaction track at the Participatory Innovation Conference calls for submissions from ‘Makers’ who will contribute examples of participatory innovation activities documented in video and ‘Analysts’ who will analyse those examples of participatory innovation activity. The aim of this paper is to open up for a discussion within the format of the track of the role...

Research in paediatric nursing, paediatric psychology, health care management and environment-behaviour studies suggest that there are many obstacles in completing qualitative research in health care settings with children and young people. As a result, the evidence from this kind of research is limited. Both authors have recently completed participatory qualitative studies with children and yo...

The LifeCLEF plant identification challenge aims at evaluating plant identification methods and systems at a very large scale, close to the conditions of a real-world biodiversity monitoring scenario. The 2016-th edition was actually conducted on a set of more than 110K images illustrating 1000 plant species living in West Europe, built through a large-scale participatory sensing platform initi...