This paper analyses the different approaches taken by three NGOs working in Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal, to incorporate women and refugees into their organizational structures. The impacts the different strategies had on both programme activities and women are examined.
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Based on a case study in Nigeria this article examines stratification of PRA sessions as a tool when using PRA in conflict ridden settings.
In 1994 Redd Barna Uganda started developing an approach to community-based planning using PRA (PRAP) that placed children and their issues at the centre of the planning process and that also aimed to recognise differences within communities. This report is based on discussions involving project staff, members of three partner organisations and villagers from seven communities. The discussion reflected on the PRAP process to examine which aspects were proving beneficial and for whom and those that were proving problematic with an aim of identifying areas for improvement.
Strategies for scaling up the work are also examined and prospects for encouraging more community based monitoring of the PRAP process as a strategy for strengthening impact.
Flooding is a recurrent natural hazard in the charlands of Bangladesh. This document reports on a workshop aimed at gaining an understanding of the issues confronting the poorer families and especially children in these areas. The workshop was attended by representatives of five national NGOs working in charland areas and also seven school-going children aged between 12 and 16 years old, selected from poor families. The way in which the workshop was designed to facilitate the participation of the children is discussed and lessons learnt reflected on.
Filmed in Bhutanes refugee camps in Nepal, China and Indonesia, this video will be of interest to field researchers, and in particular anthropologists. The anthropological method of participant observation is contrasted with more interactive participatory approaches. Included in the video are entering a community and joining in village activities, adapting the research plan to fit in with villagers activities, working with interpreters and dealing with expectations and responsibilities.
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This paper reports on how wellbeing ranking was adapted to allow displaced people in Western Kenya to develop their own strategies for rehabilitation and also to identify appropriate interventions for agencies working with them. This method was found to be quick, making it possible to implement some projects within weeks of discussions and also led to an increased awareness among neighbours from different tribal origins of the common effects of the disturbances and their shared needs.
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Guide to participatory research that provides information regarding strategies, methods and resources used by practicing participatory researchers to mobilise communities around gathering and producing popular knowledge. The report begins with a presentation of case studies from around the USA of various participatory research projects.
Following this are do's, don'ts and maybe's regarding amongst other issues, power relations, building community and group alliances and diversity, getting information out, starting and sustaining groups and dealing with conflict and funding.