TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping the road to development
T2 - A methodology for scaling up participation in policy processes
AU - Nelson, Donald R.
AU - Folhes, Marcelo T.
AU - Finan, Timothy J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors recognise the valuable contributions of several key individuals in the Ceará state government who gave the methodology a chance and were instrumental in its development: Alex Araújo, Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho, Fátima Coelho Benevides Falcão, and Verônica Maria Oliveira da Silva. The research for this article was provided by two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grants: NA06GP0367, and NA04OAR4310106. Donald Nelson acknowledges support from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research during the preparation of this article.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - Understanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to define development agendas are widely accepted development strategies. There remain, however, significant challenges to the systematic and effective inclusion of local communities and households. Projeto MAPLAN, a pilot project in Ceará, Brazil, is a joint effort of the public sector and civil society designed to create a process of participatory development planning which integrates local-level contextual variations. In this effort, the use of a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) stimulates the participation of community members in analysing their needs, goals, and priorities. The visualisation of these factors through easily understood maps facilitates communication and contributes to a democratic and transparent planning process, thus permitting the articulation of local priorities with the state-level planning apparatus. MAPLAN represents part of a shifting paradigm for rural development planning in the state and provides the tools for the effective inclusion of citizen voice in development policy.
AB - Understanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to define development agendas are widely accepted development strategies. There remain, however, significant challenges to the systematic and effective inclusion of local communities and households. Projeto MAPLAN, a pilot project in Ceará, Brazil, is a joint effort of the public sector and civil society designed to create a process of participatory development planning which integrates local-level contextual variations. In this effort, the use of a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) stimulates the participation of community members in analysing their needs, goals, and priorities. The visualisation of these factors through easily understood maps facilitates communication and contributes to a democratic and transparent planning process, thus permitting the articulation of local priorities with the state-level planning apparatus. MAPLAN represents part of a shifting paradigm for rural development planning in the state and provides the tools for the effective inclusion of citizen voice in development policy.
KW - Governance and public policy
KW - Latin America and the Caribbean
KW - Methods
KW - Technology
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U2 - 10.1080/09614520902808225
DO - 10.1080/09614520902808225
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449363924
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 19
SP - 386
EP - 395
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 3
ER -