Sweeting, P.

A Brief Summary of the Findings and Recommendations from the Evaluation of Support to the Governments Inpres Desa Tertinggal Poverty Alleviation Programme

This paper describes a project which adopted PRA to (i) help villagers understand the objectives of a poverty alleviation programme (IDT) and to prepare feasible action plans for the utilisation of IDT funds, and (ii) to produce base-line data to be of use to programme planners and designers. This report first summarises the main findings relating to organisation of the project. The PRA project training is critically examined, discussing selection of appropriate candidates duration of training and levels of understanding imparted.