Resources

Brief report of field work carried out in Croy village, an ex-mining village in Lanarkshire, as part of PRA training course.

Reports on consultations with communities surrounding the Tower Colliery in which participatory approaches were used to examine their concerns and priorities for land usage on the site.

The contributions of academics and practioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the USA and Europe, are extended versions of a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Participatory Research in Helath Promotion, Liverpool 17-21 September 1993.

This article describes the use Forum and Invisible Theatre to educate members of the public, living near to Campsfield detention centre in Oxford, about forced migration and claiming asylum, in the hopes that it would lead to action by the audience.

This video discusses to activities and outputs which aim to bring people together within a locality and enable them to take action. Village appraisals are surveys done by locals, often resulting in a booklet, which lists physical and social resources, to be used in negotiation over planning and in problem solving (01). They provide information for village planning and give villagers the chance to discuss what they want (03). Two examples show how village appraisals were used in the UK: one resulted in specific recommendations being presented to local government about transport and infrastructure, and led to change in the attitude of stakeholders to new developments (03-06); another enabled a village to approach local government and make demands, giving more hope to villagers (07-10). Parish maps show what resources are valued in a community. In one example this was done so that there was less chance that valued resources would be destroyed (10-14). Another example shows how five villages came together to raise awareness about natural conservation areas and footpaths (14-16).

This video presents the reflections of Ben Osuga (Uganda Community Based Health Care Association) on a trip to Scotland to learn how PRA is used in the North and how has influenced policy change. The video shows meetings with forestry officials and PRA activities with rural people. These emphasise the difference in views and understanding between forestry officials and people living in rural areas.