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The paper summarises a participatory impact study in Kenya. PRA was used in six catchments in different agro-ecological areas to assess the linkages between the process of implementation and the impacts on the communities. A framework of sustainability indicators developed by IIED was used to organize field analysis and report writing. The impact study was seen by the Ministry of Agriculture as a self-evaluation of the branchÆs operational procedures, since the results are being used to organize field analysis and report writing.
This is the second part of a report on the PRA regional workshop that was held in Islamabad, June 2000, organized in part by PRA Network Pakistan. Six South Asian countries û Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kyrgzstan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan û present their experiences of the issues and concerns related to PRA Networks in their country. Each paper briefly describes the history and depth of knowledge of PRA, challenges faced and ways forward by the PRA Networks, and some illustrate points with PRA case studies in their country
This document is one in a working paper series that discusses a pilot program that seeks to create international linkages among grassroots activists in order to promote sustainable development. The program was conducted to explore the viability of multi-national collaboration among NGOs, policy analysts, educators, researchers and grassroots organisations aimed at enhancing grassroots strategies and tactics for addressing problems of environmental and economic sustainability. The paper provides an overview of the project and examines the results of the international exchange.
This paper looks specifically at how a framework that was developed to measure the level of community participation within district health projects can be implemented. The introductory section describes the evolution of the development of the framework designed by Rifkin et al in 1988. The framework basically centres on the identification of five main factors that Rifkin believed to most strongly influence the breadth of community participation. These were identified as: a) needs assessment b) leadership c) organisation d) resource mobilisation and e) management. The article goes on to describe how research was carried out to find out how health programme staff utilised the framework to assess community participation levels. A major reason for this research was to assess exactly how valuable a tool this framework is by asking project managers to apply it in their own specific contexts. The article gives a detailed description of the setting in which the research took place before discussing the study procedure in some detail and briefly reporting the results. The main strengths and weaknesses of the framework were highlighted and the implications of these findings discussed in some detail.