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A report of the process and findings of a PRA carried out as part of a World Bank funded project to prevent STD and AIDS infection in several communities of Nigeria's Plateau State.
Issues explored with community members using PRA techniques are documented including, perceptions of health needs, community knowledge, behaviours and practices related to STD/AIDS and sources of health information available to communities and their impact. The report describes how dissemination meetings of findings provided opportunities for communities to be actively involved in deciding priorities for action and how they should be implemented.
The article outlines how the PRA process was useful not only in terms of improving program design but also in that it led to new partnerships among various stakeholder institutions.

Agenda of 5th Forest Network Meeting.

This article briefly points to those situations in which the use of RRA might be more appropriate than PRA.

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.