People working together around the world to generate ideas and action for social change
Poverty and well being : rural community views and policy implications for socio-economic and natural resource development.
Based on research in poor village communities in West Bengal using participatory mapping and wealth grouping exercises, this paper analyses rural people's perceptions of poverty and suggests policy measures based on them.
Learning to share : experiences and reflections on PRA and community participation. Vol.1
This book includes a wide ranging collection of papers which have been divided into sections dealing with communicating with children, gender empowerment, community interactive processes, approaches and insights, ethics and values of community participation and organizational capacity building.
Forest management and survival needs : community experience in West Bengal.
Lessons from community empowerment programme formulation : Mission-2 of UNDP, Bangladesh.
Women's Participation: Food Gathering, Food Insecurity and Hunger Periods: Some Policy Implications for Village Krishna Rakshit Chak in West Bengal, India
Two visits to the villages in West Bengal were made. The report illustrates the importance of information gathering with rural women, to highlight variations in seasonal food consumption and womens responses to this insecurity. PRA was used to analyse the links between food insecurity, health and ecological degredation, for example using food calanders to illustrate food consumption. A high level of detail was obtained for both primary and secondary foods.