participate
Real participatory research would give local people control over where help is needed.
This is an opportunity for a more participatory approach to school development planning.
I find that students are becoming more participatory as citizens.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking part and getting involved
actor
all in
along
attendee
be (a) party to somethingidiom
concern
engage
go all in
go in on something
hat
have a dog in the fightidiom
have a horse in the raceidiom
muscle
neck
pitch in
plunge
plunge in/plunge into something
punch above your weightidiom
re-engage
thick

participatory | Business English

participatory
adjective
 HR, WORKPLACEuk /pɑːˌtɪsɪˈpeɪtəri/ us /pɑrˈtɪsɪpətɔri/
→ participative

Examples of participatory

participatory
Future roles of for mal and far mer breeders in the participatory cotton breeding program.
A transparent and participatory policy-making process provides a mechanism for ex ante preference revelation.
We also wanted to identify perceptions of organic producers about on-farm research and identify the educational impact of the participatory variety evaluation process.
Topdown solutions and large campaign-style approaches are therefore rejected in favour of more participatory solutions, involving local consultation and village level planning.
Pantheism on the other hand is participatory and egalitarian.
Our findings are consistent with the theory that direct participatory models of democracy may encourage a greater sense of efficacy, and possibly, civic engagement.
Participatory assistance: an alternative to transfer of technology for promoting change on farms.
The participatory design methods include brainstorming, storyboarding, workshops, pencil and paper exercises.
The strong creative participatory work and continuous exchange with the pupils made the refurbishment an extraordinary assignment.
In this sense, it points to a hitherto ignored facet of participatory mechanisms; the importance of different kinds of knowledge being transferred between groups.
Based on past research there are reasons to doubt whether class identification has an independent effect on participatory orientations.
The other approach evaluated was a long-ter m strategy of watershed-based, participatory action research.
Yet working within a participatory framework also continues to offer the possibility of empowerment, emancipation and the expansion of direct political engagement.
The councils followed on the other hand a multilayered, participatory model in their attempt to involve all resident burghers in government.
This war of position for a popular, pluralistic, and participatory nationalism was lost as the military gradually tightened its authoritarian rule through the 1950s.
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