Failing forward: going beyond PRA and imposed forms of participation

Participation: from tyranny to transformation?: Exploring new approaches to participation in development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 219-234

  Waddington, Mark ^b   Mohan, Giles ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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