| Abstract title: |
Participatory methodologies: double-edged swords |
| Author: |
Eliud Ngunjiri |
| Issue: |
Volume 8, Number 4 1998 |
The author puts forward the personal view that participatory methodologies (such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA)) are often used by NGOs in such a way that they create a negative impact on the community they were intended to empower. Arguing that these methodologies incite the poor to feel the need to seem poor - a potentially disastrous starting point for any collaborative community/NGO initiative the author advocates an approach by which communities identify their resources, and their capacity to improve their quality of life.
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