FLSP, CIALs and

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FLSP, CIALs and.

• Agroecosystems Analysis (AEA), Beneficiary
  Assessment, Development Education Leadership
  Teams (DELTA), Diagnosis and Design (DD),
  Diagnostico Rural Participativo (DRP), Farmer
  Participatory Research (FPR), Groupe de Recherche
  et dAppui pour lAuto-promotion Paysanne
  (GRAAP), Methode Active de Recherche et de
  Planification Participative (MARP), Participatory
  Analysis and Learning Methods (PALM),
  Participatory Action Research (PAR),
  Participatory Research Methodology (PRM),
  Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA),
  Participatory Rural Appraisal and Planning
  (PRAP), Participatory Technology Development
  (PTD), Participatory Urban Appraisal (PUA),
  Planning for Real, Process Documentation, Rapid
  Appraisal (RA), Rapid Assessment for Agricultural
  Knowledge Systems (RAAKS), Rapid Assessment
  Procedure (RAP), Rapid Assessment Techniques
  (RAT), Rapid Catchment Analysis (RCA), Rapid
  Ethnographic Assessment (REA), Rapid Food
  Security Assessment (RFSA), Rapid
  Multi-perspective Appraisal (RMA), Rapid
  Organisational Assessment (ROA), Rapid Rural
  Appraisal (RRA), Samuhik Brahman (Joint Trek),
  Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), Story Methodology
  (SM), Theatre for Development, Training for
  Transformation, Visualisation in Participatory
  Programmes (VIPP), ZOPP

A great diversity of methods, but all share a
few basic principles
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Principles of good practice in PR

• Farmers are involved in decision-making at every
  stage

• Site selection
• Diagnosis
• Planning
• Experimentation
• Evaluation
• Analysis
• Feedback
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Socialise lessons learned

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Principles of good practice in PR

• The research is based on a clear common agenda
  or set of priorities defined jointly by farmers
  and researchers and based on principles of social
  equity

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Principles of good practice in PR

• The research draws on multiple sources of
  information and methods and links together
  various knowledge worlds

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Principles of good practice in PR

• The research process is based on cyclical
  learning and feedback loops and there is two-way
  sharing of information among farmers and
  researchers

FLSP
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Principles of good practice in PR

• The research process is based on cyclical
  learning and feedback loops and there is two-way
  sharing of information among farmers and
  researchers

Experimenting
Evaluation
CIAL
Planning
Analysis
Diagnosis
Election
Feedback
Motivation
Select region
Train facilitators
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Principles of good practice in PR

• The research process is based on cyclical
  learning and feedback loops and there is two-way
  sharing of information among farmers and
  researchers

Social equity
Integral elements of PR Processes
M E
Capacity-building
Facilitation
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Sources Braun, Horne, Vernooy McDougall,
Ashby, CIAT-IPRA