Frontiers in PRA and PLA

Focusing on community participation and economic development, this guide is a unique exercise in exploration and synthesis of community participation. Demonstrating and documenting case studies and experiments, these pages reveal that participatory tools, methods, and approaches can be efficiently used in human exploration, including organization and institutional development, action research, macro-policy evaluation, and democratic processes. Each chapter describes the process followed in the application of participatory tools, methods, referred to as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) or Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in respective fields, and the synthesis of participation with practice. This is an invaluable guide to practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students of developmental economics and poverty planning.