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This article briefly points to those situations in which the use of RRA might be more appropriate than PRA.
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This article outlines the complementarity between the RRA techniques and the household survey adopted to study the exchange strategies used by villagers in the Assaba region of Mauritania. Giving specific examples, the article outlines how preliminary RRA work provided an understanding of indigenous terms, concepts and strategies which enabled a more meaningful survey to be drawn up. RRA techniques were discovered to provide information on typical behaviours of different sub-sections of the community whilst household surveys were able to give details on individual lives.
Presents the case study of the Accelerated Irrigation Transfer Program in Turkey whereby transfer of government built and operated systems has taken place. The case study is of particular interest because of the speed of the process and also because the transfer of responsibility has been to local village or municipal governments or representative federations of villages or municipalities rather than to farmer associations which has been the norm in other countries.
The process adopted for transferring management responsibility is documented and reveals that there has been little participation by water users. Factors facilitating the process are identified and an initial assessment of impacts, benefits and costs is made and potential future problems and challenges suggested.
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This article outlines how a participatory approach was used in five villages to investigate systems of access to fishing rights and their evolution as a basis for future fisheries development initiatives. Particular attention was paid to conflicts and disputes which had emerged over such rights and conflict resolution process charts were constructed by village elders to show how disputes had been resolved in the past.
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Spanish language conference paper on use of PRA for evaluating different aspects of pressure on and conflict about communal national park resources.
Conference paper on use of PRA in conflict resolution in National Parks in Venzuela.
Report of a monthly meeting of The Participation Forum examining ways USAID has found to identify local priorities in Bosnia and support them even when sometimes they conflict with existing beliefs and necessitate rethinking programs.
This book brings together papers presented in 1995 at a workshop organised by Duryog Nivaran, a South Asian network promoting participatory approaches in situations of natural disasters and internal conflicts. Many of the papers reflect on the limitations and challenges of applying participatory approaches in emergency situations.