FAO

This resource CD features a field tools database of 135 participatory approaches, methods and field tools developed or applied by FAO and other organisations. It also contains a selection of 215 FAO documents in English, French and/or Spanish, which have been extracted from their Participation WebsiteÆs annotated library database and sorted according to a set of different category lists. The publications are available as full-text documents either in PDF, HTML or Microsoft Word format.

Malnutrition remains a serious problem in most developing countries today. Experience has shown that when a community is fully involved in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition and other development projects, these are likely to be more effective and sustainable. These guidelines for participatory approaches to nutrition projects are designed for use by professional staff from different institutional and technical backgrounds, working with development at a community level.

This report provides an overview of communication and rural women, and is structured around five the key themes: communication in a changing world, invisible partners, giving a voice to rural women, communication approaches and looking towards the future.

Appendix 2: This appendix discusses the comparative advatages and complementarity between RRA and formal surveys. The surveys examined local forest use, forest products and other aspects relating to community forests such as rights and access. In terms of listing forest products, the findings from RRA and formal survey showed no significant differences in terms of data coverage (RRA 23 interviewees compared with 215 in the formal survey). RRA was found to be a better research methodology in dealing with sensitive issues such as land tenure and government-owned forest areas.