Draft copy of the final report of the South African participatory poverty assessment. See record 2036 for final copy.
Document prepared by a group of 26 participatory trainers and practitioners from NGO's and Government, mainly in South Asia, which highlights the issues surrounding the rapid spread of PRA which has taken place. The problems encountered from this scaling up are highlighted, including a lack of sufficiently experienced PRA trainers, such that there has been much poor quality training , with most notably a lack of emphasis on behaviour and attitudes and also a failure for the necessary internal change in culture and practice of the organisations adopting the approach to take place.
This is a collection of short articles reporting experiences of using various PRA methods in health projects. The first article describes the use of body mapping, to explore women's perceptions of a range of bodily processes and the effects of medical interventions on the body. This was done as part of a project to train women change agents and dais (traditional birth attendants). The second describes an experience of using Venn diagrams in an urban setting. Drawing Venn diagrams was used to initiate discussion about choice of health care provider in a Bombay slum.
This research into urban poverty in Zambia was conducted using 'participatory urban assessment', as part of a Copperbelt Urban Livelihoods Project. The rationale and the approach used are discussed in the first section, before looking in greater detail at the specific activities and tools. The bulk of the report is a presentation of the findings of participatory appraisals in two compounds. These are intended as case studies, and will be used as the basis for project proposals. The findings are given in detail, with many diagrams drawn by people from the compounds reproduced.
A study of six indigenous peoples' communities involving field research on the main concerns and needs at the local level as well as organisational capacities. This was undertaken by the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) so as to facilitate the involvement of indigenous people in the country's democratisation processes. Communites were selected on the grounds of geographical spread and development issues affecting the indigenous groups.
The report presents the findings of a participatory Target Group Analysis which was conducted in five villages across all five watershed divisions of the Tarbela-Mangla Watershed Management Project. The aims were to assess the relation of local target groups to forests and natural resources and determine the impact of past afforestations on these groups. A wide range of participatory methods were used, including historical matrices, livelihood analyses, venn diagrams, mobility maps, social maps, seasonal analyses, input-output flows, pie diagrams and matrix scorings.
This paper explores the use of rapid appraisal in defining the health and social needs of a community. The aim is to formulate joint action plans between residents and service providers. Data was collected by an extended primary care team from three sources to build a profile of the community: existing documents about the neighbourhood, interviews with a range of informants, and direct observations. Perceived problems of the community and suggestions for change were used as the main outcome measures of the study.
These are the findings of the first set of studies done in the "Evaluation of the National Programme on Improved Chula [NPIC]" carried out by the Indian National Council of Applied Economic Research [NCAER], to examine the efficacy of complementing or substituting sample surveys [SS] with RRAs/PRAs, based on comparison of results, reliability level of data sets, cost/time trade offs, quality of fieldworkers, training components.