MYRADA

This reports a PRA to plan a micro watershed in India. Aspects of rural livelihoods learned through the PRA are listed. It also notes that the PRA resulted in budget planning and watershed programme planning.

This paper concerns the adoption and development of R/PRA methodology and methods by MYRADA, an NGO in India. They recognised that 'rapid' should become 'participatory', that it need not be 'rural', and that few understand 'appraisal', and suggest an emphasis on 'learning' instead - hence the terminology Participatory Learning Methods (PALM).

This report of a training session, conducted by MYRADA in India, describes and explains potential applications of a number of PRA methods: time lines, seasonal calendars, mapping and modelling, transects, livelihood analysis and wealth ranking. It gives examples of their use from the training, with a brief comment on each example.

This paper spells out the strategy of an Indian NGO, MYRADA, in its various programmes. It describes the origins of MYRADA's emphasis on community participation, which led them to implement a process of staff re-orientation and skills upgrading.

This paper discusses the development of a participative approach to watershed management in PIDOW, a collaborative programme involving the NGO MYRADA in India. It notes that an areas surveyed by RRA was ecologically degraded and weak in institutions and skills. This led to calls for assisting in design and building of local institutions to manage watershed resources. Effective participation in watershed management requires that the area considered is neither too large nor too small, and that management is decentralised to village groups.

This paper focuses on the role of an NGO, MYRADA, in fostering participation in collaborative watershed management projects in India. It was decided that effective participation required the size of watershed management areas had to be small enough for people to be familiar with, and for families to be able to function together. the PIDOW project aimed to build their management capacities.

The DVD documents a PRA exercise which was carried out in a village in Karnataka in south India, facilitated by the NGO group MYRADA. The PRA started the process of developing an integrated plan for the watershed with the village community. The film focuses on the sequence and methods used during the PRA. The first activity was an ice-breaker and equaliser, where the outside participants attempted to perform routine village tasks (02). Next, seasonality diagramming provided information on rainfall, employment patterns for men and women, and patterns of income and expenditure (04).