Overview - making change happen: advocacy and citizen participation (PLA 43)

Although advocacy and citizen participation are much talked about in development, how they are implemented varies greatly, and are often just tacked on to existing development models, rather than wholesale changes to methodology. This article looks at the history of advocacy and citizen participation in development, and introductions to some of the featured articles.

This article was published in PLA 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics, students and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org

This article was published in PLA 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation (February 2002). ~Click on ‘More information’ to visit: www.planotes.org~Click on 'Additional information' to download the whole issue or individual articles for this issue of PLA.