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Agricultural technology development through participatory research

Evaluation of the Ethiopian Agricultural Extension with Particular Emphasis on the Participatory Demonstration and Training Extension System (PADETES)

Cultivating Student Internal Locus of Control Using Participatory Rural Appraisal in Villa Santa, Honduras

Participatory Learning Approaches

Participatory Communication in Agricultural Research and Extension

Bureaucratic Reorientation for Participatory Rural Development

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Robert Chambers, 1802-1871, Scottish publisher and writer.

Participatory rural appraisal and questionnaire survey

Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal Starting with the People

This handbook sets out a step-by-step procedure for planning and conducting evaluation of communication programmes with communities in a participatory way, in order to design effective communication for development programmes and initiatives. It can be used as a reference guide for conducting participatory rural communication appraisal (PRCA) in the field as well as a training guide for capacity building. It actively involves people in the research process to ensure that communication for development programmes are effective and relevant to their needs and preferences.

Rapid Rural Appraisal, Participatory Rural Appraisal and Aquaculture

This document is intended for aquaculture development specialists, aquaculture project managers and officials and specialists involved in the planning and management of aquaculture activities. it provides an introduction to rapid rural appraisal and participatory rural appraisal for people working in these fields. the principal components of these two approaches to information collection and planning are described together with the various tools used, with a case-study to illustrate their uses and some of the issues they raise. Possible applications of the approaches for those involved in aquaculture development are given and an outline is provided of the kinds of planning and institutional context where they can be best applied. The problems and shortcomings of the approaches are also discussed and guidelines are given for the use of alternative approaches to information gathering and planning.

FAO Collaboration with Asian NGOs for Participatory Rural Development

PRA: PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL, Memahami Desa Secara Partisipatif

Decentralized Planning and Participatory Rural Development

Contributed articles presented at two seminars on regional planning and participatory rural development predominantly on West Bengal held at Dept. of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University.

Participatory Rural Planning

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation. Rather, it is part of a social learning process that can enhance the prospects for successful implementation, provide opportunity for reflection and create a mutuality of respect between different stakeholders in the planning arena. Accordingly, Michael Murray signposts what can work well and what should work differently in regard to participatory planning by taking rural Ireland as the empirical laboratory and exploring the Irish experience at different spatial scales from the village, through to the locality, the sub regional and the regional levels.

Participatory Rural Appraisal In Agriculturel And Animal Husbandry: A Training Manual

Participatory Rural Appraisal

Frontiers in Participatory Rural Appraisal and Participatory Learning and Action

Community participation or people's participation in the process of development has entered into the development lexicon permanently. New methods, tools, and approaches (variously called Participatory Learning and Action, Participatory Rural Appraisal or its earlier incarnation Rapid Rural Appraisal) to enlist people's participation has been invented, improvised and developed by development practitioners all over the world. This book is a unique exercise in exploration and synthesis, demonstrating and documenting the experiments which have revealed that the participatory tools, methods and approaches can be very efficiently used in several fields of human exploration. Each chapter, dealing with these issues, describes both the process followed in the application of participatory tools and methods in the respective field and the synthesis of the theory of participation with practice as well. This book will be an invaluable guide to practitioners, researchers, academics and students of development economics and poverty planning.

Participatory Rural Appraisal for Watershed Management

Participatory research and on-farm management of agricultural biodiversity in Europe

Participatory Rural Development in Pakistan

The stories of nine rural support programs (RSPs) related in this book focus on their partnership--which started in a small way in late 1982--with rural communities in Pakistan through participatory organizations of ordinary men and women. In each case, the emphasis is on change and outcomes. The nine RSPs work in partnership with rural communities in 93 districts in the four provinces of Pakistan, Northern Areas, and Azad Jammu & Kashmir. They have helped organise nearly 1.67 million rural households into 100,700 participatory organizations of men and women with 1.90 million members. The RSPs have used these organizations to deliver a variety of inputs and services, build physical infrastructure, enhance skills, transfer technologies, and link them with other service providers, especially governments. Much as these investments and activities are appreciated, and some of their good effects well demonstrated, perhaps a far more important contribution of community organizations has been to enable ordinary people to participate in making decisions that affect their well-being and claim resources and services from outsiders, particularly the public sector agencies. This has been of particular importance to the poor and women who are often the most disadvantaged groups. Getting together, speaking out, participating in making decisions, doing new things, going out, and working with outsiders are demonstrably necessary for confidence and empowerment. The experience of rural support programs has convinced governments and international donor community that community organizations should be part of the mainstream in the effort to reduce poverty.