Tips for trainers: Extracts from the 'Action Research for Community-based Planning' project manual

As part of this issue of pla notes on community-based planning, Tips for trainers brings you two extracts from Khanya-Managing Rural ChangeÆs Action Research for Community-Based PlanningI project manual. The evelopment of the manual was funded under the project for action-research on community-based planning on which several of the papers in this issue of pla notes are based and represents the collective work and experience from this broad group. The two examples selected demonstrate two aspects of the community-based planning process: ensuring the effective representation of people within the community concerned in the planning activities, and how to prepare and run a preplanning community meeting in advance of the main planning events, in order to mobilise leaders from diverse sections of the community