scholarly journals Labour management guidelines for a Tanzanian referral hospital: The participatory development process and birth attendants’ perceptions

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanna Maaløe ◽  
Natasha Housseine ◽  
Jos van Roosmalen ◽  
Ib Christian Bygbjerg ◽  
Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Daniel Odoom

Communication is critical in any development process. Beyond its role as an empowerment tool, communication is used to promote people’s participation in development activities. Communication also helps to ensure that people have access to the information and knowledge needed to improve their lives. Particularly, citizens rely on knowledge and information in order to successfully respond to the opportunities and challenges of social, economic, cultural, political and technological changes. However, for knowledge and information to be useful in the development process, they must be effectively communicated to people. This brings to the fore the compelling relevance of development communication in development discourse. Though development communication is indispensable in sustainable development drive, many people still struggle to appreciate its underlying philosophical underpinnings, conceptual intentions, core principles and methodologies, hence their failure to make the concept practically relevant in development practice. Besides, the poor appreciation of the underpinnings of development communication contributes to the exclusion and isolation of many people especially the rural people from the process of development. What is more, the ever-increasing demand on the part of the citizenry for participatory development coupled with the significant advancement in technologies and globalization means that concerted efforts ought to be put in place by all development stakeholders including governments, research institutions, researchers, and civil society organizations to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of development communication. To achieve this, however, requires an increased discussion on what really constitutes development communication, and generate a sustained interest and commitment by all stakeholders to the cause of development communication, bearing in mind its unique principles and methodologies. Any confusion in theorizing and conceptualization of development communication potentially contributes to the seemingly unending complexity associated with efforts towards achieving sustainable development. It is in this regard that this paper contributes to the efforts to help bring clarity to the concept of development communication through a review of some existing literature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Adhi Iman Sulaiman ◽  
Djuara P. Lubis ◽  
Djoko Susanto ◽  
Ninuk Purnaningsih

Development Planning Deliberation (Musrenbang) is the participatory development process, involvingstakeholders to perform the development communication functions in determining and realizingcommon welfare. This research used descriptive of qualitative method, data collection through literaturereview, direct observation, documentation analysis, and interviews. Research locations were conductedin Banjar, West Java Province by using purposive sampling. Research informants consisted of villagehead, facilitator, bureaucratic regional organization and stakeholders as participants of Musrenbang.The results showed that the implementation of Musrenbang was still less to utilize information mediawhich should be given by government to the public or the community, either conventional media,such as announcement media in the village or by used the media of Information and CommunicationTechnology (ICT), such as access of internet network to provide and maintain website at the villagelevel in order to realize the development program which are informative, participatory, collaborative,transparent and accountable.


1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
A. R. Kemal

The challenge presents a rather interesting analysis of the development process in South Asia. It argues that conventional development strategies have failed to alleviate poverty in South Asia. It suggests that the poverty problem can be resolved only through the participatory development approach. The book covers a large number of issues including sustainable development, poverty, aid-dependence, politics, military intervention, religion, women and development, and regional co-operation. Indeed, the analysis is not limited to just economic perspectives; the book also contains sociological, political, and anthropological analysis of the issues. The broad coverage and varied approaches to the development process make it interesting even when the analysis is superficial, the empirical evidence is outdated, and the proposed solution of the given problem is quite conjectural. Without explicitly stating so, it is assumed that the performance of the South Asian economies in terms of per capita incomes has been more than satisfactory and the poverty problem is just a distribution problem. This is to ignore the fact that the per capita incomes in South Asia have grown at a rate of only 1.5 percent as compared with the nearly 8 percent in Korea and China. Still, the participatory development approach for the alleviation of poverty in the region is strongly advocated.


1985 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Sheldon Gellar

In recent years, development theorists, planners, and practitioners have placed much greater stress on the crucial importance of popular participation in promoting rural development. Twenty years ago it was fashionable to talk about national planning; today it is fashionable to talk about participatory development. As in the past, the wealthy, the well-educated, and the professionals define the contents of participatory development and how it should be applied to and by the rural masses. Socialist theorists attack the bourgeois state and pontificate on the transition to socialism; the capitalists denounce state intervention and invoke the magic of the market; the peasants look toward the sky and pray for rain; and the cows amble in search of grass unaware of their crucial role in the participatory development process.


Author(s):  
Annie W. Y. Ng ◽  
Alan H. S. Chan

Labels and declarations are one of the tools of environmental management aimed at improving human behavior with regard to the environment. The development process of environmental labels and declarations has been strongly recommended to include participatory consultation with users. Research studies on participatory design of environmentally friendly messages, however, have never been seen. The purpose of this study was to examine participatory environmentally friendly message design with consideration for the effects of message characteristics and user factors. Forty Hong Kong Chinese people adopted a participatory draw-and-tell approach by drawing 26 environmentally friendly messages related to eco-products, energy conservation, and recycling and waste management, and then verbally described their design drawings. The results showed that environmentally friendly messages which were familiar, concrete, easy to visualize, and contained clear context were favored by users, and users with high object imagery preference benefited most from the participatory design through the draw-and-tell approach. This study fills the gap in the literature about participatory design in environmental labels and declarations which are used for promoting eco-friendly behavior in daily life. The findings should help facilitate the participatory development process of environmentally friendly messages for conveying pro-environmental actions.


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