The use of video in participatory research and training is a growing practice. The potentials and constraints to its use are examined in this document and a comparison made with other methods of recording, based on experiences from both 'northern' and southern' countries.
Step by step guide designed for field workers on how to carry out a participatory appraisal with adoloscents of their sexual and reproductive health related issues. The process of data analysis and documentation is also briefly mentioned.
This paper provides a brief critical analyisis of a Bulgarian experience in participatory forest management, in which initial PRA planning and local adaptive planning for forest management was not followed up. The lack of an enabling national forest policy for decentralised forest management was a major factor in the 'failure'. However, professional and institutional challenges in partner NGOs were also important, many of which centred around issues of behaviour and attitudes.
Sanitation ladders and matrices can be used to expose villagers to a range of sanitation options. In this case study villagers were only aware of two sanitation technology options both of which were inappropriate given the hard rock conditions and limited water. Using these tools local perceptions on the advantages and disdvantages of each option were solicited and a possible demonstration toilet option was suggested, as part of an introductory phase of a sanitation project.
This paper documents experiences from Tweerivier, one of the field sites during a training workshop in Participatory Health and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST).
PHAST was used to broaden local debate and understanding on health aspects of water supply and sanitation and to demystify techology and health . A series of participatory exercises were initiated to allow residents to explore for themselves the underlying cause of their contaminated water and to decide which of these they had control over and could change. An experiment was developed during the course of the field work, to test solar water purification techniques as an alternative to boiling and a broad range of sanitation technology choices were also, introduced to the community in such a way as to take control of the information away from technical experts.