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...

INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION APPROACHES ON THE PRACTICE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN KENYA SECONDARY SCHOOLS ONDIEKI, MORARA GEORGE and MATONDA, NYABIAGE EMMAH Graduate students University of Nairobi P.O. Box 902 Kisii40200 Abstract This study sought to establish whether quality assurance as currently practiced in learning institutions in Kenya is a form of participatory moni...

This article describes a non-traditional approach to Participatory Design where distributed users have a serious impact on a software development process. The small software provider makes use of a nontraditional way of Participatory Design combined with an agile development approach. By using for among other things support service, user meetings, courses and news letter they are able to on a d...

background: more than 36 % of the total population of iran consists of young people aged 15 to 25 yr. recent studies show that this age group has the highest rate of serious health problems. youth participatory studies on youth health priority have shown that mental health is one of the most important priorities in youth health. aim to assessing the mental health needs of youth we conducted a p...