PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 5 Stumbling towards gender aware PRA training in Indonesia

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 5 Stumbling towards gender aware PRA training in Indonesia Judith Dent Introduction followed by three days in the field and a day's evaluation at the PPSW office. Pusat Pengembangan Sumberdaya Wanita In class (PPSW-Centre for Women's Resources Development) is an Indonesian NGO that has been working since 1986 on the involvement of Two facilitators from LPTP carried out the women in Indonesia in the development training based on an adaptation of the training process, in line with governmental policies1. It manual by Theis and Grady (1991). The PPSW has lengthy experience in addressing gender community development team and staff from issues in its own fieldwork and in training other Mahwaddah Foundation (an offshoot of PPSW agencies to be gender aware. that works with women migrant workers) were joined by two participants from Lombok and For some time now PPSW has wanted to adopt Bali in East Indonesia. The PPSW staff had PRA approaches. Thus it called on a fellow been given a task in addition to learning: to NGO (Lembaga Pengembangan Teknologi continuously critique the training in terms of Pedesaan (LPTP-Institute for Rural gender and urban appropriateness. However the Technology Development) that has been ...