Pra and literacy update : he Usulutan pilot : innovations in process

The pilot PRA and literacy project in Usulutan, El Salvador, has faced difficulty mobilising active participation : many people now say they 'no longer want to talk about their problems but would rather have some concrete solutions!' Methodologically one of the biggest problems faced has been 'the separation of the PRA methods from the practice of reading and writing'. To counter this tendency, 'generative' words have now been abolished so that the emphasis is on whole words that appear on the maps, 'not routinely broken into syllables'.