The participation sourcebook

Chapter I brings together the key themes and Task Managers may have about using participatory common elements on participation. It contains our approaches in Bank-supported activities. Given the reflections on what we have learned from the stories context specific and multi-dimensional nature cf in Chapter I. In this opening chapter, we explore participation, we have developed the practice pointers what participatory development is, and what it means in a way that gives the reader a menu of options for to use participatory processes to plan and implement each stage of the participatory process based on Bank operations. We also discuss the importance of World Bank experiences. This leaves readers free to using participatory approaches in reaching the poor. decide for themselves which examples are most This is not an executive summary, but an invitation relevant to their own situation and adapt the ideas to explore the cases which follow.