Social reality of people's participation; some experiences of people's participation in a revolving fund for sustainable family planning farming in Sri Lankan irrigation settlement

This paper draws on the experiences in the Mahaweli development project. It advocates that policy formulation should not be isolated from the analysis and understanding of the logic of human practice in local areas. Although not explicitly dealing with PRA it has a strong participatory theme that highlights the benefits of greater participation system analysis. Participatory development and appraisal, it is argued, should start with the interactions and strategies in the organization in family life; the crucial starting point for the development of any analysis.