Resources

Paper from Care Zambia introducing the Learning Organisation, which thrives on change; encourages experimentation; communicates success and failure; facilitates learning from the surrounding environment and from staff; rewards learning; and promotes caring. A case study of the Livingstone Food Security Project describes a framework for facilitating learning at a project level and discusses the challenges of a community self-monitoring system.

Report of the results of a PRA carried out in two urban communities in Jordan.

A report of a one day workshop held in Maputo for practitioners, partners and beneficiaries of the Mozambique Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA). The report examines three themes: process, utility and institutionalisation.
The PPA process and methodological issues of qualitative data collection, institutional partnerships and PPA implementation are discussed under process. Utility of the PPA is looked at in terms of the value added of participatory and qualitative approaches and the issue of institutionalisation includes options for increasing the application and impact of the PPA as a functional tool for poverty alleviation activities.

This document concerns a project in Tonga in which commercial marketing techniques are used to achieve the social goal of improving reproductive health. The document reports on how PRA techniques were adopted to determine the feasibility of this approach in the Tongan context.