The Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) Notes is a continuing series of collated recent articles on rural development, written by practitioners worldwide in the field.
| Title | Participatory rural appraisal : proceedings of the February 1991 Bangalore PRA trainers workshop |
| Publication Type | Conference Report |
| Year of Publication | 1991 |
| Authors | Chambers, R, Mascarenhas, J, Shah, P, Joseph, S, Jayakaran, R, Devavaram, J, Ramachandran, V, Fernandez, A, Pretty, J |
| Secondary Title | RRA notes / IIED |
| Volume | no. 13 |
| Pagination | 143 p.: fig., tab., photogr. |
| Date Published | 1991-01-01 |
| Publisher | International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) |
| Place Published | London, UK |
| Keywords | community participation, evaluation methods, ghb, india, participatory methods, planning, rapid rural appraisals, rural development |
| Abstract | The Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) Notes is a continuing series of collated recent articles on rural development, written by practitioners worldwide in the field. This volume covers the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) Trainers Workshop in Bangalore, India. Section A discusses methods used in India to stimulate villagers' participation in discussions, interviewing procedures, and innovative approaches to explain concepts to analphabetic people in an non-authoritarian manner. These included "participatory mapping" by the community using sticks, stones, leaves and/or other available materials for delineation of watersheds, land use, drainage patterns and other thematic maps. Section B consists of 13 case studies in the promotion of community participation in rural and natural resource development projects. The concepts outlined in Section A were shown to be quite effective in the elucidation of problems and constraints, and the development of solutions. |
| Custom 1 | 125 |
