Booth, D.

Report on participatory poverty assessments, highlighting new tendencies in the methodology and their contribution to new insights into African policy. Intensive use is made of both formal poverty assessments, especially in Zambia and Tanzania and other substantive work. The report notes the widespread adoption of principles of PPA (multiple stakeholders and diverse investigative styles) and concludes that the momentum of participatory and combined approaches is best sustained by disseminating as widely as possible the increasing sophistication and evolving agenda of work in this area.

This is the report of a study designed to reach some broad conclusions about social, economic and cultural change in rural and peri-urban communities of mainland Tanzania. It draws on previous accounts and on group interviews and other RRA methods. Substantive findings concern the responses of members of rural communities to the process of economic liberalisation and their reception of constitutional reforms leading to the adoption of a multi-party political system.