Poor people's realities ; challenging the professions

Editorial looking at the potential traps of those who are not poor pronouncing on the realities of those who are. It highlights the differences in livelihood strategies and realities between these groups, and how little understood these are by professionals who hold power. Using Bindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda as an example it goes on to show how participatory approaches can enable poor people to express and analyse their individual and shared realities. In the end the question remains of whose realities, whose priorities, count?