Global Participation Network(GP-NET)

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ANNOUNCING: GLOBAL PARTICIPATION NET (GP-NET)!

You are cordially invited to subscribe to USAID'S new electronic
discussion group, GP-NET, which will open September 11. GP-NET
uses Internet to enable interested USAID staff and other
development practitioners anywhere in the world to engage in a
conversation about participatory approaches.

The conversation will have a facilitator (or "manager" of the
list), Wendy Kapustin, who will make subscribing and
participating "user friendly." More importantly, Wendy will
encourage the group to focus attention on specific experiences
and lessons learned about participatory approaches, as well as to
share useful information and resources for participation.

Short case studies that focus on the use by USAID of a particular
"participatory practice" and explore results and lessons learned
about its use will be disseminated for discussion. GP-NET
participants will be encouraged not only to comment on these
cases and the issues they raise, but to describe other
instructive experiences. With your help, some of these, in turn,
will be fleshed out as Participatory Practices cases.

Please note: GP-NET is not replacing the Participation Network.
As you know, the Participation Network is a list on our internal
e-mail directory of USAID staff who wish to receive summaries of
the Participation Forum sessions and related notices and
materials. GP-NET, on the other hand, makes use of "listproc"
software on the Internet, to enable the messages that you send
automatically to be received by all other GP-NET subscribers.
Another important difference is that GP-NET includes development
practitioners from outside USAID: other donors, PVOs,
universities and--with your help--host country NGOs and other
institutions. Like the Participation Network and the
Participation Forum, GP-NET is an effort of USAID's Participation
Initiative.

If you would like to subscribe to GP-NET, or if you have
questions about it, please contact Wendy Kapustin via e-mail (or
at: WKAPUSTIN@USAID.GOV). To subscribe you, she will need to
know your Internet address.














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Anicca Jansen T) 202-663-2723
Economist - Center for Economic Growth F) 202-663-2708
US Agency for International Development I) AJANSEN@USAID.GOV
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