GroundWork invites you to our upcoming workshop in October: "Participatory Research and Action for Environmental Sustainability" in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For an application form and further details, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************** Participatory Research and Action for Environmental Sustainability: Cape Cod, Massachusetts: October 21-26, 2001 Participatory learning and action (PLA) techniques are essential for designing and implementing projects and programs that are environmentally sound within the community context. This workshop focuses on providing in-depth experience with tools that are practical for decision-makers and planners, with an eye to the practicalities, timeliness, and efficacy, of their use in various situations. This intensive workshop, held in a seaside community on Cape Cod that is the home of internationally recognized centers for environmental research and activism, offers a unique cross-sectoral approach to policy and planning for environmental sustainability through community/civic participation, education, health, microfinance and gender, with particular focus on the integrating the use of - process and content - qualitative and quantitative data for policymakers and planners using participatory techniques - information gathering and timely presentation of results - community needs with national plans - participation data to improve advocacy skills within a community - community involvement in development of programs and management The workshop will offer practical experience in program design from beginning to end, including fieldwork in community sites. In addition to the daytime schedule in applying theory to practice, field trips and evening fireside sessions will provide opportunities for interaction with leading researchers, policy makers and activists in state-of-the art methods and practices in ecological design processes. Sr. GroundWork experts, Christina Rawley and Eileen Kane will facilitate the workshop. Christina Rawley is a social ecologist with extensive experience in interactive methodologies for policymaking and planning at local, regional, and national levels for environmental management, democracy and governance, education, and gender and development. She has been active in the ecology movement since 1975 and is author of numerous publications, manuscripts, research reports, simulation games and other presentations on a wide range of issues concerning environmentally sustainable development. She holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and has worked with a variety of domestic and international non-governmental and governmental organizations, including the New Alchemy Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and The National Marine Fisheries Service, the World Bank, UNDP, UNIFEM, and USAID. Eileen Kane is a founder member of GroundWork.author of an innovative new book, Doing Your Own Research (Boyars, London, 2001).was professor and founder of the first Department of Anthropology in Ireland, and Chair of the Irish national aid program. She has worked with many national and international agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, and CARE. For an application form and further details on this course, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
