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Participation – A Promise unfulfilled? Building Alliance between people and government: Action Research for Participatory Representation (this is a link to a PDF version of the article that is hosted on www.chronicpoverty.org)

The article is also available from google in HTML format

Written by Su Braden, PhD © Su Braden

Introduction and Rationale (taken from the article)
How can communication processes and technologies overcome the
barriers that prevent semi-literate and illiterate people from analysing and
negotiating their own futures? How should we view the achievements of
thirty years of INGO, national and international donor and government
development programmes that left the supposed beneficiaries voiceless
and outside the formal procedures of policy negotiation?