New Report:
From Faith to Action
A participatory study involving community members in Yogyakarta that delves into the unexplored link between religion and environmental behavior.
Participation is key in creating a fair and just society.
Today’s world poses many challenges faced by development practitioners as communities continue to face inequalities. Traditional development relying on a one-size-fits-all model, driven by top-down approaches and external experts often lead to solutions that are unsustainable and misaligned with the people they aim to help.
Participate believes in the potential of community-led actions and participatory approaches to build a more inclusive, sustainable development sector.
Building a post-development world means believing in addressing these fundamental shortcomings, shifting the focus from externally imposed agendas to locally driven solutions. We embrace decolonization, inclusion, and equity, making it a critical framework for addressing the complex challenges of our time.
To do this, we bring together a team of development practitioners to assist professionals and organizations to ensure community participation in their social change initiatives.
Participation is key in the post-development era.
Today’s world poses many challenges faced by development practitioners as communities continue to face inequalities. Traditional development relying on a one-size-fits-all model, driven by top-down approaches and external experts often lead to solutions that are unsustainable and misaligned with the people they aim to help.
Participate believes in the potential of community-led actions and participatory approaches to build a more inclusive, sustainable development sector.
Building a post-development world means believing in addressing these fundamental shortcomings, shifting the focus from externally imposed agendas to locally driven solutions. We embrace decolonization, inclusion, and equity, making it a critical framework for addressing the complex challenges of our time.
To do this, we bring together a team of development practitioners to assist professionals and organizations to ensure community participation in their social change initiatives.
Our Areas of Expertise
Capacity Building
Priority Issues
Our Areas of Expertise
Our Approach
Our works involve a cyclical learning process that ensures shared understanding between you and the community you want to bring change into. We emphasize the importance of exchanging knowledge in uncovering experienced truths and creating transformational change.
Participation should be collaborative
We’ve exchanged knowledge and shared understandings through our team’s collective experience in assisting various clients —from Fortune 500 companies, think-tanks, start-ups, to early-stage non-profit organizations; covering capacity building, organizational management, social impact, participation strategy, and advocacy.
Our team is brought to life by a diverse collection of experience and expertise. We celebrate interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and cross-sectoral collaboration.
Our Works
We’ve utilized our collective knowledge and views with various clients —from Fortune 500 companies, think-tanks, start-ups, to early-stage non-profit organizations; covering end-to-end project management, from planning to evaluation & learning.
Our community is brought to life by a diverse collection of experiences and areas of expertise. We celebrates interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and cross-sectoral collaboration.
Our past clients
*The list includes our past mentees from SocialX, an incubation program held under our previous brand name.