ABSTRACT
By bringing together the perspectives of diversely situated practitioners and scholars involved in various ways with participatory poverty research, this book has sought to demonstrate one of the central principles behind participatory research: that multiple perspectives are enriching. This conclusion takes a step back from our main subject, participatory poverty research itself, to the domain that much of it seeks to influence, the poverty reduction policy process. It analyses this through the lenses provided by these six reflective contributions. Doing so gives rise to knowledge about policy which, when applied in participatory poverty research initiatives, becomes knowledge for policy – knowledge that can help those engaged in participatory research to change policy by various means in favour of the poor and excluded.
