A need exists for food security indicators, for use in targeting food security programs, to be both simple to derive and use. This document reports on research to develop such alternative indicators which combined both quantitative and qualitative approaches for identifying indicators of poverty, food insecurity and undernutrition. Participatory rural appraisal techniques and ethnographic case studies were used to identify locally determined indicators of food insecurity.
The first sections of this manual present the basic concepts behind participatory adult education, examining the way in which adults learn and the training cycle. Important issues in livestock and agricultural training are covered, including gender, traditional knowledge and good commnunication and group work. Many training tools are described and an example given of each from a real situation.
This report descibes the participatory process used to develop a sexual health learning pack by and for religious youth groups in Zambia.
This manual was developed using a participatory process with youth and contains sexual health learning activities for religious youth groups. The activities are designed so that they require little or no literacy from participants.
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These notes are an updated foundation for workshop participants. They cover - what is PRA, the common elements of its approach, its origins and spread, concerns about its practice and the relationship between PRA and RRA. This is followed by details of how behaviour and attitudes are fundamental and more important than PRA methods. Some notes on ideas for approaches and methods are followed by notes on new frontiers.
FORUM for community empowerment (FORCE) is a collaborative forum of development organisations in western neal that is committed to promoting participatry processes through the organising and bringing together of social development actors. This document reports on the first general assembly and general meeting of the forum.
Based on research in poor village communities in West Bengal using participatory mapping and wealth grouping exercises, this paper analyses rural people's perceptions of poverty and suggests policy measures based on them.