INFORMATION ON THE RAAKS METHODOLOGY
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The resource box contains a book on the underlying theory by Paul G.H. Engel, "The Social Organization of Innovation: a focus on stakeholder interaction", published by the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 90 6832 101 3 and a manual and set of cards ("windows" and tools) for applying the RAAKS method.

The manual is by Monique L. Salomon and Paul G.H. Engel, "Networking for Innovation: a participatory actor-oriented methodology". Also published by the Royal Tropical Institute, ISBN 90 6832 109 9.

For an overview of the ideas behind RAAKS, see the article by Paul Engel in the 1995 ILEIA Newsletter (Volume 11, No. 2 "Improving network performance").

Other articles on the application of RAAKS by a variety of authors, see the April 1997 ILEIA Newsletter and the 1998 Forest, Trees and People Newsletter.