This paper provides an analytical description of the planning process used by the Indo-British Rainfed Farming Project (KRIBP) and illustrates some of the issues, problems and points of learning which arose.
Written by members of teams involved in cross visits between India and Tanzania, these reports outline places, people and organisations visited and make brief observations and reflections.
From a study sketching the broad dimensions of participation, the chapter on evaluating participation argues that participation must be evaluated continuously as part of project process and that measurement can only be qualitative and therefore unpredictable.
Special edition focussing on community conservation, with case studies from Asia and Africa.
This article reports on an innovative secondary school environmental awareness initiative designed to complement a program to develop village level aquatic resource management. Students were provided with discussion questions on past, present and future issues regarding local aquatic resources resand encouraged to use semi-structured interview techniques to investigate the issues in their own villages with elders and relatives.
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.
Main findings of a participatory impact assessment in which people's own perceptions and indicators of change are compared with conventional monitoring indicators. The report also includes information on the impact of the project on the lives of women and children and raises issues of sustainability, equity and degree of participation in activities and outcomes.