Rohini
You could check out the participation/participatory assessment page at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. They have a good deal of resources on the web on participation and participatory action research tools in theory and practice. http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/index.html
Hope this helps.
Sam
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From: Sarah Delaney [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 May 2004 10:12
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: participatory research tools
Hi Rohini - sorry I don't have enough time to write a longer reply, but I worked on a national PLA project in 2000-2001. The success of PLA in dealing with large populations could be questioned, but the finished reports do have good descriptions of the techniques used. In addition, we wrote a large reference document detailing all the techniques used, and the results of an evaluation we carried out during the project. The name of the project was the 'Millennium Project', commissioned by the National Women's Council of Ireland. Go to www.nwci.ie or contact the information officer at 00-353-1-6615268. Authors: O'Reilly-de Brun, Mary; Gilligan, Ann-Louise; Delaney, Sarah; Bailey, Natasha.
There were six key policy areas: Women and Health, Women and Poverty; Women and Education; Women and Local Development; Violence against Women; Women and Work.
Hope that helps,
Sarah D
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From: rvl <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:17 am
Subject: Re: participatory research tools
> Dear Jean,
>
> I mean all those things - ability to collect data; ability to
> establishrelationships; ability to improve service through
> research results -
> especially because the project would be a participatory action
> researchproject.
>
> In fact, the idea is to develop tools in such a way that the
> grassrootsorganization (GrO) activists should be able to use them
> in collaboration
> with the community to collect data. The final objective is to
> generate a
> 'community livelihood manifesto' that would put forth the demands
> of the
> community (based on facts) for their sustainable livelihoods. The
> wholeprocess should be simple enough for the GrO activists to
> replicate in
> several villages/hamlets.
>
> Rohini
>
>
> Jean Schensul wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 5/14/2004 3:52:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I have two queries.
> >>
> >> 1. I need references on participatory research tools - especially
> >> those
> >> (also on internet) that give simple yet detailed description of
> >> tools
> >> like: transect walk, seasonal calendar, timeline, etc.
> >>
> >> 2. In a participatory research project, after using particular
> >> research
> >> tools (after modifying them to suit the situation) how does one
> >> assess
> >> the efficacy of those tools? How does one develop indicators
> for the
> >>
> >> assessment? Are the idicators developed while designing and using
> >> the
> >> tools?
> >
> > You could try the Ethnographer's Toolkit,
> Altamirapress.com,> for tools that can be adapted. What do you
> mean by efficacy - ability
> > to collect data; ability to establish relationships; ability to
> > improve service through research results etc.
> >
> >
> > Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D.
> > Executive Director
> > Institute for Community Research
> > 2 Hartford Square West, Ste. 100
> > Hartford, CT. U.S.A. 06106
> > Tel: 860-278-2044, ext. 227
> > www.incommunityresearch.org
>
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