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The quality of relationships among and between people is an important factor to consider when working to promote strong and resilient neighbourhoods or communities. The quality of these relationships is better known as 'social capital'. This paper describes how the relatively new participatory approach of social network analysis (SNA) can be used to understand social capital and considers how...
Conventional evaluations of development projects are generally carried out by external experts, who largely use documented information, interviews and short visits to gather their information. They are usually guided by terms of reference which leave them with little scope for flexibility or creativity. This article describes how a project evaluation in Zimbabwe used the original terms of...
The Southern Highlands Dairy Development Project (SHDDP) has been working in Tanzania since 1979 to strengthen the private dairy sector, with the specific goal of 'contributing to the family income of dairy farmers and the nutritional status amongst their communities'. In the latest phase of the project (1996-99), SHDDP has moved away from supporting dairy production towards a more holistic...
The Nyakerato community has water from springs, a shallow well, a protected spring and the gravity scheme which uses an underground pipeline with public taps downhill to increase the number of water users. Many people wish to be supplied from the piped gravity scheme even when they live on higher ground that cannot be reached by the gravity pipelines. This issue has not been addressed...
Working in 1997 for IUCN with Veronica Muthui in Somalia, Andy Inglis developed a method to assist local people to monitor and evaluate local environmental management. He called this the ‘H-Form’ or ‘Rugby Post form’. Since then it has been modified in other monitoring and evaluation exercises in Scotland, Wales, Austria, Northern Ireland, Egypt, England, India and...
Marion Gibbons raises concerns about the quality and follow-up of PRA training in Nepal, emphasising that PRA is not used on a systematic basis within organisations that have received PRA training. In his response, Michel Pimbert stresses that whilst good personal practice of trainers is essential, the process should be supported with affirmative action from the NGO and donor communities to...
This exercise is a variation of David Werner's exercise on the 'chain of causes'. The author has used it with students in the UK, grassroots groups and health professionals in Cambodia and the Philippines to aid problem analysis and facilitate common understanding of such problems and their causes within groups.
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