Frontiers in Participatory Rural Appraisal and Participatory Learning and Action: PRA and PLA in Applied Research
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1853397113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 468 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book will be an invaluable guide to practitioners, researchers, academicians and students of development economics and poverty planning.. Community participation or people’s participation in the process of development has entered into the development lexicon permanently in the past 50 years. 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. New methods, tools and approaches (variously called as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) or its earlier incarnation Rapid Rural Appraisal) to enlist people’s participation, have been invented, improvised and developed by development practitioners and academicians all over the world.This book is a unique exercise in exploration and synthesis, demonstrating and documenting the experiments which have revealed that participatory tools, methods and approaches can be very efficiently used in several fields of human exploration, including organization and institutional development, action research (on the need to adopt an inter-sectoral approach to dealing with development issues, on hunger, participatory poverty assessment, bio-diversity conservation and conflict resolution over sharing of resources), macro-policy evaluation and democratic proc
He has more than 30 years of direct development experience.. Amitava Mukherjee is the senior project expert at the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok
He has more than 30 years of direct development experience.. About the AuthorAmitava Mukherjee is the senior project expert at the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok