Pathways to Participation
Reflections on PRA
'Participation' may have become a buzzword of development practice but the pathways of current enthusiasm for participatory methods stretch back over decades. The most popularly recognized and widely used participatory approach, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), had its genesis in the late 1980s. Since then, it has come to be used in countless communities, in dozens of countries and in a huge variety of contexts. Once a marginal practice battling for recognition, it has now become an instrument used by the most powerful of global development institutions. As PRA has spread and been taken up by actors and institutions across the spectrum of development practice, it has taken on a diversity of forms and meanings. This book brings together some of the greatest names in development practice including Robert Chambers, and Jules Pretty. It comprises the reflections of thirty-two practitioners from twenty different countries, from different generations of PRA practitioners and from different arenas of development work, cultural and political contexts and professional backgrounds. Their pathways to participation have taken different directions, influenced not only by their own professional and personal backgrounds, but also the forms of PRA which they were introduced to and helped to evolve. Embracing a range of entry points and experiences, these stories speak of moments of frustration and revelation, of dilemmas and discoveries; together, their accounts articulate the sheer variety of the forms of practice that have come to be called 'PRA'. Contributors: Andrea Cornwall; Garett Pratt; John Kennedy Alumasa; Eloy Anello; Qais Anwar; Karen Brock; Robert Chambers; Rene 'Pong' Clemente; Chandan Datta; Michael Drinkwater; Marc Fiedrich; Bara Gueye; Irene Guijt; Regis Gwaba; Katja Jassey; Barbara Kaim; Humera Malik; Mwajumah Saiddy Masaiganah; Jessica Nalwoga; Koos Neefjes; Bardolf Paul; Ditdit R Pelegrina; Kamal Phuyal; Michel Pimbert; Rajendra Prasad; Jules Pretty; Mallika Samaranayake; Tilly Sellers; Meera Shah; Marja Liisa Swantz; John Thompson and Andreas Wilkes
Published: 2003
Pages: 240
eBook: 9781780441276
Paperback: 9781853395697
| Prelims (Contents, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, Contributors’ Biographical Notes) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction | |||
| Andrea Cornwall, Garett Pratt | |||
| 2. Hanging on the edge of a cliff: my loud thoughts as I walk along the winding path of participatory development in Kenya | |||
| John Kennedy Alumasa | |||
| 3. My pathway to work on participation in local governance | |||
| Eloy Anello | |||
| 4. Six experiences with PRA | |||
| Qais Anwar | |||
| 5. Participation, policy, poverty: where now? | |||
| Karen Brock | |||
| 6. Reflections on PRA experience | |||
| Robert Chambers | |||
| 7. From participatory appraisal to participation in governance in the Philippines | |||
| Rene D. Clemente | |||
| 8. Winding paths, broken journeys: travels with PRA | |||
| Andrea Cornwall | |||
| 9. Participation of the people | |||
| Chandan Datta | |||
| 10. Reflections on participation and empowerment | |||
| Michael Drinkwater | |||
| 11. Maps turning to minefields: local knowledge of PRA in a Ugandan village | |||
| Marc Fiedrich | |||
| 12. Pathways to participation in French-speaking Africa: a learner’s itinerary | |||
| Bara Gueye | |||
| 13. Intrigued and frustrated, enthusiastic and critical: reflections on PRA | |||
| Irene Guijt | |||
| 14. Reflecting on PRA, participation and gender | |||
| Regis M. Gwaba | |||
| 15. PRA from an end-user’s perspective | |||
| Katja Jassey | |||
| 16. Personal reflections – on petrol queue time | |||
| Barbara Kaim | |||
| 17. Sharing my dilemmas: mixed messages on PRA and participation | |||
| Humera Malik | |||
| 18. Reflecting on the past: my journey to participation | |||
| Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah | |||
| 19. To REFLECT or not to REFLECT? | |||
| Jessica Nalwoga | |||
| 20. PRA, poverty and livelihoods: reflections from inside the bowels of an international NGO | |||
| Koos Neefjes | |||
| 21. PRA values: how to become a true believer | |||
| Bardolf Paul | |||
| 22. Rediscovering a dream: reflections on PRA experience | |||
| Wilhelmina R. Pelegrina | |||
| 23. Sharing happiness through PRA | |||
| Kamal Phuyal | |||
| 24. Learning to live the politics of participation | |||
| Michel Pimbert | |||
| 25. PRA as learning and empowerment – for children too | |||
| Rajendra Prasad | |||
| 26. Discovering new faces of PRA | |||
| Garett Pratt | |||
| 27. What have we learned about participatory methods? | |||
| Jules Pretty | |||
| 28. Tracing my participatory footsteps | |||
| Mallika R. Samaranayake | |||
| 29. Making waves: a case for handing over PRA | |||
| Tilly Sellers | |||
| 30. The road from Lathodara: some reflections on PRA | |||
| Meera Kaul Shah | |||
| 31. My road to Participatory Action Research | |||
| Marja-Liisa Swantz | |||
| 32. Learning from mistakes: reflections on improvisational participation | |||
| John Thompson | |||
| 33. Rewriting the mass line: an outsider’s reflections on participatory approaches in southwest China | |||
| Andreas Wilkes |
Andrea Cornwall
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.
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