Beyond PRA

Experiments in Facilitating Local Action in Water Management

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ID3885844
AuthorsWouter Schaap (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Snehangshu Sekhar Nandi (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume15
Issue5
Pages643-654
Publication date2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614520500128687
OpenAlexW2014894899
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

As a tool both for research and for structuring community-level interaction, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is now well embedded in development practice. This paper, however, argues that in order to play an enabling role towards community action, facilitators need to offer much more than the traditional PRA approach. Based on work with groups of women and of men in North Bengal, the paper describes how local politics and facilitators' strategies interact and complicate the use of PRA-like planning approaches. The article stresses the need for effective and long-term facilitation strategies that take into account organisational, methodological, and contextual considerations, and argues that organisations need to invest far more in ensuring the quality of facilitators than is generally the case

Business · Citizen journalism · Economic growth · Economics · Facilitation · Knowledge management · Participatory action research · Participatory rural appraisal · Political science · Politics · Process management · Public relations · Sociology · Structuring · Computer Science · Engineering · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization

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