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Yacoob, May; Brantly, Eugene; Whiteford, Linda – 1996
In October 1992, the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project held a workshop to explore how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could incorporate community participation as a core element in projects to improve water supply, sanitation, and other environmental conditions of peri-urban areas in developing countries. The…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Conservation (Environment)
Healy, Kevin – Grassroots Development, 1991
Describes Capacitacion Integral de la Mujer Campesina (CIMCA) development efforts within Bolivian farm communities. Describes CIMCA's focus on social change, ethnic empowerment, and women's rights. Describes organization's initial clashes with rural culture. Describes use of rotafolio drawings to spark workshop discussions, to improve women's…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Cartoons, Community Development, Culture Conflict
ASPBAE Courier, 1990
Several of the articles in this document arose out of the International Council for Adult Education's World Assembly held in Bangkok, Thailand, in January 1990. The first article is on the 1989 evaluation of the Hilltribe Development Project, a long-term project undertaken in the north of Thailand. The article briefly describes various aspects of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Agricultural Production, Community Action, Community Development
Melo, Alberto; Benavente, Ana – 1978
The first in a series of studies of lifelong learning, this paper discusses educational activities undertaken in Portugal after the fall of the dictatorship in 1974 and through 1976. Intended for educational planners and for those working in popular education, the study emphasizes original strategies and experiments, particulary those encouraging…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development
Jung, Ingrid, Ed.; King, Linda, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 19 papers on gender, innovation, and education in Latin America. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Ingrid Jung); "Reflections on the Gender Perspective in Experiences of Non-Formal Education with Women" (Lilian Celiberti); "Gender and Innovation" (Graciela Messina);…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Development

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1997
This document contains information about and papers from meetings of educational practitioners and policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and the Arab States and a collective consultation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on literacy and education for all. Contents (arranged by region) are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Literacy