Welcome to Development in Practice

Volume 10, Number 2

• Editorial
  • Editorial 10(2)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • The effectiveness of NGO campaigning: lessons from practice
    Chapman, Jennifer; Fisher, Thomas
  • Partnerships in fair trade: reflections from a case study of Cafédirect
    Tallontire, Anne
  • Agricultural co-operatives in Gujarat, India: agents of equity or differentiation?
    Ebrahim, Alnoor
  • Organisational change from two perspectives: gender and organisational development
    Plowman, Penny
  • Addressing urban poverty: increasing incomes, reducing costs, and securing representation
    Mitlin, Diana
• Viewpoint
  • Languages in lifelong education for Third World development
    Abbott, Gerry
• Practical Notes
  • Barter in practice: a case study of liwac transaction in Addis Ababa
    Tadele, Feleke
  • Formal RoSCAs in Argentina
    Schreiner, Mark
  • Development-induced forced migration: a practical example
    Paling, Dennis
  • Literacy comes second: working with groups in developing societies
    Rogers, Alan
  • The Participatory Change Process: a capacity building model from a US NGO
    Castelloe, Paul; Watson, Thomas
  • Using multi-dimensional scaling to promote dialogue among development professionals in conference settings
    Chesterfield, Ray; Enge, Kjell
• Conference Report
  • Europe and the South in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Renewed Co-operation
    Powell, Mike
  • Women's Worlds '99
    Porter, Fenella
  • Risk Reduction and Society in the Twenty-first Century
    Bhatt, Mihir R.
• Book Reviews

The Participatory Change Process: a capacity building model from a US NGO

Castelloe, Paul; Watson, Thomas

This paper describes the Participatory Change Process (PCP), a model that promotes the formation and action of sustainable grassroots organisations in poor and marginalised communities, using participatory learning and action methods to provide people with the capacities, self-confidence, and organisational structures needed to plan and implement development projects and influence policy formation.

This article is freely available as a chapter in Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections

Keywords: Civil society; Methods; North America

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