This approach combines ethnographic methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews, with participatory methods and action research.

Because they are intended to be sustainable and reproducible on a large scale, study circles shy away from formally taught classes, opting instead for participatory methods.

The decline of central planning, combined with a growing concern for sustainability and equity, has resulted in participatory methods gradually replacing top-down approaches.

In this way Umpleby has experimented with ways to encourage the use of participatory methods in other countries.

The training is broad-based and concentrates on using participatory methods and hands-on approaches.

Trained by Tostan, these committees also use participatory decision-making methods.

It uses a rights-based approach that relies on participatory and appreciative methods, leading-edge development techniques, effective program management, and organizational capacity building.

As a result of the first evaluation special attention was given to the development of more participatory methods of health education.

We are in favour of what your report calls 'new participatory methods' so that regional and local authorities might be more directly involved in Community procedures.

The name refers to the fact that mukhtars are usually selected by some consensual or participatory method, often involving an election.