Project Implementation Workshops on Participatory Village Planning (PVP)
This report discusses a workshop held in Sri Lanka to introduce PRA methods and to determine how and if these methods can be applied to the community mobilisation programmes of integrated rural development projects. It was agreed that PRA would be valuable in combination with existing approaches to community mobilisation, planning and implementation. The reasons for this conclusion are discussed, with reference to the nature of the existing programme and the implications of the new approach for current planning, budgeting and implementation practices. An introductory phase is recommended.