Author: IIED.Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843692805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
PLA Notes 24: Critical Reflections from Practice
Author: PLA Notes 41: General Issue
Author: H. AshleyPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843692850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
PLA Notes 36
Author: IIED.Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843692805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Children's Participation
Author: Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843692508
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
PLA Notes 30: Participation and Fishing Communities
Author: PLA Notes 33: Understanding Market Opportunities
Author: Participatory Rural Appraisal
Author: N NarayanasamyPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 8178298856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methods, now known as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), have been extensively used in development research, action and evaluation. This book is based on the author’s decade-long intensive field experience—each method is explained by drawing on field-based illustrations. The book vividly describes the methods of PRA, highlighting the essential features as well as the application, merits and limitations of each method. Participatory Rural Appraisal: Principles, Methods and Application outlines the application of PRA methodology in areas like participatory poverty assessment, sustainable livelihood analysis, assessment of hunger, vulnerability analysis, organizational analysis, monitoring and evaluation. Separate sections on SWOT analysis and on the method of interview and dialogue are also included in the book. Besides, the author has provided guidelines for sector-wise application of PRA, which would serve as a ready reference for students and practitioners alike. A chapter on the roles of members of a PRA team is another key feature of this book, which would be immensely valuable for students, researchers and academicians working in the areas of social work, rural development, agriculture, and environmental science, and also for NGO workers and trainers and researchers in the development field.
PLA Notes 40: Deliberative Democracy and Citizen Empowerment
Author: Revolutions in Development Inquiry
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849772428
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future. This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the dinosaurs of large-scale multi-subject questionnaire surveys, and the biased visits and perceptions of rural development tourism and urban-based professionals, there follows a look at the explosive proliferation of methodologies and methods of recent years. These include rapid rural appraisal (RRA) participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and dramatic developments in the still largely unrecognized fields of participatory numbers and statistics, and of participatory mapping and GIS. Chambers shows how these can empower local people and provide rigorous and valid substitutes for some more traditional methods of inquiry. Also presented is a repertoire for offsetting the biases of the urban trap, which has become so serious for officials and aid agency staff. Importantly, Chambers points out that we are now in a different space, methodologically, from a few years ago. He makes the case that participatory methodologies, evolved through creative and eclectic pluralism, can be a transformative wave for the future as drivers of personal, professional and institutional change. This book is for all who are concerned with development, regardless of profession, discipline or organization, who seek to be abreast of the revolutionary breakthroughs in approaches and methods of inquiry of recent years, and what Chambers calls their 'unlimited potentials'. Published with IDS.
PLA Notes 46: Participatory Processes for Policy Change
Author: International Institute for Environment & DevelopmentPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 9781843694328
Category : Human services
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description