SEMINAR: Developing Capacities for Participatory Problem Structuring in a
Developing Country
Warwick Business School,
Social Studies Lounge
4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday 27 April 2005
Seminar jointly organised by the
Operational Research and Information Systems Group
at Warwick Business School, and the
Problem Structuring Methods (PSM) Study Group
of the Operational Research Society
Professors Elisenda Vila and Ana Maria Benaiges, planning consultants to
central and local government in Venezuela, are visiting the UK this week.
This follows a consulting assignment in Caracas in March by Professor
Jonathan Rosenhead of LSE and John Friend, co-author of Planning under
Pressure: the Strategic Choice Approach. They wish to use their visit to
Warwick Business School to present their continuing innovative work, which
enjoys the active support of President Chavez and Minister of Planning, Dr.
Jorge Giordani; and to discuss this work and gain feedback and comments.
• Elisenda Vila will describe the national programme of participatory
planning, currently running in consultation with State Governors and
Mayors, initiated by the President in November 2004, and drawing on aspects
of the Strategic Choice Approach.
• Ana Maria Benaiges will introduce the community workshops she
facilitates, where she applies the same methods with the residents of San
Julian: a disadvantaged barrio in the coastal State of Vargas severely
affected by the recent floods and mudslides.
Elisenda and Ana Maria are among the contributors to the third edition of
Planning under Pressure, by John Friend and Allen Hickling, published by
Elsevier in late 2004.
For further details please contact:
Alberto Franco, [log in to unmask] Telephone 02476 524491
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL,UK
Mike Cushman, [log in to unmask] Telephone 020 7955 7426
London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London
WC2A 2AE
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