PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 9 PRA in a health education, water and sanitation project in Kenya

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 9 PRA in a health education, water and sanitation project in Kenya David Adriance Introduction `community'. The teired approach presented here, first selecting a cluster of sub-Locations, CARE International is an NGO dedicated to then moving to a single sub-Location, then on assisting the poor in over 40 developing to a single village, generates some interesting countries around the world. CARE has been lessons. working in Kenya since 1968, and in Siaya District since 1980. This case study describes The SHEWAS approach the Siaya Health Education, Water and Sanitation (SHEWAS) project, first PRA is used by SHEWAS as the initial point implemented in 1990, and focuses particularly of interaction with target group communities, on its use of PRA as a means of stimulating specifically at the sub-location level. community participation in the identification Identification of actual sites for project and planning of water and sanitation micro- intervention, as well as the specific nature of projects. the interventions themselves (albeit with a predetermined range of possibilities), is Siaya District was selected as an intervention determined by the target groups themselves as area for three main reasons. First, the District outlined below. Typical interventions include is ...