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At the end of the four years of participatory action research (PAR) by the Nepal Water for Health organisation (NEWAH) PAR team, it was important for NEWAH, IRC and the funding agency Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS) to find out how the communities evaluated the progress in achieving a sustainable water supply management system. For this purpose a final participatory...
The authors describe a field test called the Twenty Points of Progress Programme (20PPP), a participatory methodology for systematically measuring and assessing the impact of village development programmes. The communities rate their villages with regard to certain indicators and, through plenary evaluation, the results are used for community action planning, consciousness raising and resource...
This article looks at the process of ‘making sense of the information’. While it is easy to generate much interesting and unusual information through participatory processes, it is often very difficult to make sense of the mountain of ‘data’. Where does participation in analysis begin and end? When does it happen, and how and by whom is local learning represented?...
The issues matrix is a table which captures, in summary form, all the issues of concern that arise out of the initial application of PRA methods by interest groups. The article explores how Redd Barna Uganda uses the issues matrix in the facilitation of independent discussions of different gender and age groups, in order to arrive at communal conclusions. Using examples from different...
The thematic programmes proposed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have been found to be complex to operationalise and difficult to manage. As a consequence, this draft discussion document from the WWF proposes an implementation plan to make national application of the CBD thematic programmes of work simpler, and, through a more integrated delivery, more cost-effective. The...
The International Institute for Environment and Development together with the Regional and International Networking Group members in India, Kenya and Senegal carried out a consultation exercise to identify the priority research and policy issues for the most vulnerable countries and communities in different regions in the South. The main findings of the scoping study are:
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