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This article traces the history and progress of the Community Based Health Care Programme initiated by the Mbarara University Faculty of Medicine in 1992. In the article students reflect on their experiences of the programme and reveal how their attitudes towards PRA and working with communities changed over time as a result.

This paper examines and critiques the current global movement towards participatory watershed research and management and asks why emphasis is being placed on working at the level of watersheds and on participation.
The paper suggests that there is little evidence existing that participatory watershed management is a viable approach and that there are major conceptual and implementation challenges involved in this approach. Finally, recommendations for addressing some of these challenges are made

Describes how PRA was used with a self-help fund, comprising of fishers, fish smokers and fish traders, to identify and analyse problems. Those problems common to all groups were identified with the use of venn diagrams, one of which was preserving the catch and maintaining its quality throughout each stage of the trade. As an outcome of the exerciese a Fish Preservation and Marketing Cooperative comprising the fishers, fish smokers and bulk buyers was formed and with self-funded contributions purchased an outboard engine .

This document discusses the changing environment agricultural extension agencies are finding themselves in and how their role needs to adapt to meet this. It argues that extension managers have a role to play in facilitating agricultural extension agencies to become learning organisations to enable the necessary change to take place.

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