Linking PRA to Policy: The Conflict Analysis Framework

This article outlines a new technique which it is hoped will contribute to a basket of approaches designed to link PRA to policy. It was piloted with communities in two Game Management Areas in Zambia in December, 1995. The PRA team comprised experienced facilitators and extension workers from the government wildlife authority and an NGO (WWF -BWP). The article describes the technique and some of the lessons learned from the case studies. An important issue examined is how to meaningfully link the information gained through participatory analysis with the actual process of policy formulation.