Rehearsing for Reality: Using Role-Play to Transform Attitudes and Behaviour in the Fight against HIV and Sexual Abuse of Young Women
1997
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Where there is a Doctor
1997
Abstract
Interview with a fifth year medical student on a radical programme in which students are taught participatory rural appraisal methods and practice in rural communities
Paradigms Lost: Toward a New Understanding of Community Participation in Health Programmes
1996
Abstract
Reviews the experiences of community participation in health programmes, with examples provided from the field of disease control.
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Oxford
http://www.elsevier.com
Teenage Facilitators: barriers to improving adolescent sexual health
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1996
The feasibility of implementing contraceptive social marketing in the Kingdom of Tonga.
1996
Abstract
This document outlines methods used to assess the feasibility of implementing contraceptive social marketing in Tonga. Since many health issues are taboo, a broad spectrum of culturally sensitive methods of research were devised that were tailored to the different types of informants.
The third gathering of UK participatory appraisal practitioners : workshop proceedings.
1997
Abstract
The proceedings of a workshop focussing on three topics: rigour and integrity in PRA work, PRA training quality and funding and related pressures for compromises.
Annex 2 provides a case study of the community consultation methodology used by the Groundwork Trust in the community of Gellidog. Annex 3 outlines the Teenage Sexual Health Research Project being carried out in Wester Hailes using a participatory methodology. Finally there is an updated list of the PA network in Scotland.
Towards STD / AIDS awareness and prevention in Plateau State, Nigeria : findings from a participatory rural appraisal.
1997
Abstract
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.
Publisher
World Bank
Washington D.C., USA
http://web.worldbank.org
Hands on : using PLA approaches in the UK.
1996
Abstract
Summary of a one-day workshop for PLA practioners organised by the charities evaluation services and Oxfam UK and Ireland.
A case study of the use of PLA by North Derbyshire Community Health Service is given and also issues and techniques relating to the use of interviews are considered, including suggested guidelines for interviewers, the use of local people to gather data, interviewing skills, the use of group exercises vs. individual interviews. Finally, a team interviewing and diagramming exercise used at the workshop is outlined.