This is the website of the Informal Working Group on Participatory Approaches and Methods to Support Sustainable Livelihoods & Food Security (IWG-PA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The IWG-PA fosters horizontal, cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration, sharing and learning within the Organization and with external partners, focusing on the nexus where participation, sustainable livelihoods and food security come together.
The overall strategy has been to launch an in-house and inter-agency mechanism aimed at mainstreaming participatory approaches in FAO’s field programme and normative work that have the characteristics of participatory processes as hierarchical dimensions are minimized and sectoral boundaries softened.