COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPROACH

Course Objectives:
To make students able to understand the concept of community development, participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and communication techniques

1. Community Development (10 hours)
1. Participatory approach
2. Community participation and forms of community participation
3. Demand led approach
4. Community management
5. Sustainability
6. Community empowerment elements
7. Gender issues introduction
8. Population environment and quality of life
9. Skill development training; group formation
10. Saving, credit and micro credit
11. Community action plan.


2. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) (15 hours)
1. Philosophy/principles of PRA;
2. Concept of PRA
3. Classification of PRA
4. Exploratory, topical, participatory, and monitoring PRA
5. Major PRA techniques (focus group discussion, informal discussion, participant observation, key information interview and conducting interviews
6. Stakeholders discussion
7. Resource mapping
8. Maps and modelling, matrix ranking
9. Wealth ranking
10. Participatory workshop
11. Advantages of PRA, tools and instruments such as triangulation
12. Time line, ethno-history
13. Seasonal calendar, pie-diagram, venn diagram
14. Statistical tools (SPSS)etc.


3. Communication (10 hours)
1. Art of communication;
2. Paraphrasing
3. Giving and taking feedback
4. Active listening
5. Reflection
6. Asking questions
7. Conflict resolution
8. Group dynamics
9. Counselling.


4. Case Studies (10 hours)
1. Farmers managed irrigation schemes
2. Community managed water supply systems.

Tutorial:

1. Introduction (3 hours)
1. Development of community action plan health and diseases transmission in emergency settings:
2. Identify prevention and control strategies, including surveillance of disease outbreak, and epidemic,
3. Design of hygiene campaigns
2. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) (2 hours)
1. Maps and modelling, matrix ranking,
2. Wealth ranking
3. Resource mapping
4. Seasonal calendar
5. Pie-diagram
6. Venn diagram
7. Communication : Participatory discussion (4 hours)
3. Case Studies (6 hours)
1. Case studies on farmers managed irrigation schemes
2. Case studies on community managed water supply systems.

Practical / Project work:

1. Concepts and development of Community action plan
2. Report preparation on PRA
3. Resource mapping
4. Maps and modelling, matrix ranking, wealth ranking
5. Seasonal calendar, pie-diagram venn diagram
6. Case studies on farmers/ community managed irrigation schemes

References:

1. Chambers Robert , "whose reality counts? Putting the first last", Intermediate Technology Publication, London.
2. Nelson, Nici and Susan Wright "Power and Participatory Development, Theory and Practice", Intermediate Technology Publication, London.
3. Reid, David, "Sustainable Development, An introduction of Guide", Earthscan Publication ltd. London.
4. Slocum, Rechel. et. al (eds), "Power, Process and Participation- Tool for Change", Intermediate Technology Publication, London.
5. Baseline studies
6. Shrivastave, A. K., "Nature Conservation", APH Publishing Corporation New Delhi.
7. Jones, S., "Environment, Development and Rural Livelihood", Earthscan, London.
8. Oliver and Hidmore, "Climatology", Prentice Hall.

Evaluation Scheme:
The questions will cover all the chapters in the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as indicated in the table below:

*There could be minor deviation in mark distribution.