PLA 33: Understanding Market Opportunities
The theme of this issue of Participatory Learning and Action is understanding market opportunities.
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October 1998
Guest Editor: Andy Jeans
The special theme section of this issue of Participatory Learning and Action explores the use of participatory approaches to help local people better understand markets and to develop their skills in managing financial resources.
The articles reflect a variety of development efforts to enhance the capability of groups involved in smallholder agriculture, natural resource management and income-generation activities to understand some of the financial aspects of their enterprises, and to explore some of the options and consequences for change.
This edition also includes contributions on general topics.
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Contents
Using PRA for conflict resolution in national parks: lessons from a Venezuelan experience in Canaima National Park
Iokiñe Rodríguez
Using participatory research methods to explore the learning environment of rural primary school pupils
Abigail Mulhall and Peter Taylor
Participatory gender resource mapping: a case study in a rural community in Honduras
Abigail Willmer and Jennifer Ketzis
Participatory genealogies
Somesh Kumar and Vinay K. Srivastava
Participatory GIS: opportunity or oxymoron?
Jo Abbot,Robert Chambers, Christine Dunn, Trevor Harris, Emmanuel de Merode, Gina Porter, Janet Townsend and Daniel Weiner
Ranks are statistics: some advice for their interpretation
William G.Fielding, Janet Riley and Ben A. Oyejola
Understanding market opportunities
An enterprising approach to livelihood strategies
Andy Jeans
Investigating local markets using PRA
Mathilda Roos and Mampone Mohatle
Understanding market obility: perceptions of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh
Kamal Kar and Dipankar Datta
Participatory budgets: a farm management type tool to assist farmers in their decision-making
Peter Dorward, Mark Galpin and Derek Shepherd
A board game for financial management training
Ivan Bond
The business planning story: planning land based enterprises with rural Aboriginal people
Paul Mitchell and Fiona Walsh
Feedback: Participatory assessment for people with disabilities
David Thomforde with a response from Sulemana Abudulai and Deb Johnson
- A new approach to evaluating a peer education programme
Kate Butcher, Sumi Baral, Krishna Bista and Rajendra Adhikary - The communication linkage matrix
Neela Mukherjee
A brief guide to training in participatory methods in the workshop
Tips for Trainers: Exploring evaluation through drawing
Coupal, Francoise