PLA 22: General Issue
This edition of PLA addresses a variety of emerging conceptual and methodological issues.
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February 1995
Various authors
Several of the articles emphasise that practitioners of Participatory Rural Appraisal must keep a watchful eye on how the term is used, and to what it is applied.
The articles on methodological innovations include methods such as social mapping and ranking. The contents include reports work in many countries, including Philippines, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
The tips for trainers section looks at non-verbal sequences.
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Contents
Sharing our concerns and looking to the future
Elkanah Absalom et al.
Handle with care! rapid studies and the poor
Clas Lindberg, Vesa-Matti Loiske, Wilhelm Östberg and Claude Mung'ong'o
PRA and raised expectations: potentials and pitfalls
Richard Edwards
The grandfather graph
Nurul Islam Nazem and Pete Atkins
Social maps and geographical transects: some recent experiences in Orissa, India
Prahlad Mishra and Gayatree Mohanty
Women prefer lunchtime
Claus Euler
Beyond ranking: exploring relative preferences in P/RRA
Simon Maxwell and Claude Bart
Defending the land with maps
Derek Denniston
PRA in a health education, water and sanitation project in Kenya
David Adriance
RRA in coastal resource planning: Malampaya Sound, the Philippines
Michael Pido
Rehabilitating minor irrigation tanks
S. Kasivelu, Rupert Howes and John Devavaram
Diagrams for demographic data collection: examples from the Tembomvura, Zimbabwe
Ravai Marindo-Ranganai
PRA for self-reliant rural development: the case of a resettlement Area in Ethiopia
Savina Ammassari
A participatory organisational appraisal of ACORD
Mick Howes and Chris Roche
Ranking constraints in a community forestry and soil conservation Programme
Kebede Asrat
PRA for people and parks: the case of Mole National Park, Ghana
John Mason and Elijah Danso
The use of RRA in conservation expeditions: experiences from Sierra Leone
Sarah Pocknell and Danny Annaly
Tips for Trainers: Non-verbal sequences
Robert Chambers
