PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Feedback

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 Feedback. Feedback. Feedback. 18 Learning from using PRA in the UK: examples from Berkshire Anneli Connold and John Rowley with a response from Alison West Feedback is a forum for discussion in PLA assessment may be typical of much of the Notes. It features articles which raise common PRA-centred work which is currently taking concerns or challenges in fieldwork or training, place in the UK. Some of the ideas may also together with a response from another PRA apply to urban situations in developing practitioner. Letters and articles are welcomed countries. for this section, as are your comments on any of the issues raised by Feedback. Some problems and challenges Introduction Local people without local knowledge The Community Council for Berkshire is a small NGO based in the UK which has carried We observed that a combination of factors out a number of community assessments, have often led local people to live a life that is usually at the request of local authorities, in anything but local. Personal transport, greater both the rural areas and the peri-urban fringes leisure opportunities, fear of crime, longer in southern England. The most recent was in a working ...