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...

A key challenge in evaluating comprehensive community health initiatives is documenting the unfolding of the intervention, that is, the multiple changes in the environment that can leadto widespread behavior change and improvement in population-level outcomes. Using principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), partners can documentchanges in the community and system (for example...

Participatory modeling is increasingly recognized as an effective way to assist collective decision-making processes in the domain of natural resource management. This article introduces a framework for evaluating projects that have adopted a participatory modeling approach. This evaluation framework--known as the "Protocol of Canberra"--was developed through a collaboration between French and ...

INTRODUCTION In this article, we present a methodological design for qualitative investigation of knowledge translation (KT) between participants in a participatory research project. In spite of a vast expansion of conceptual models and frameworks for conducting KT between research and practice, few models emphasise how KTs come about. Better understanding of the actions and activities involved...