Participatory Learning and Action 8:
Issue 8 Contents 1. Nutrition and RRA 2. The use of wealth ranking in nutrition surveys in Sudan 3. The role of community participants in RRA methods in Ethiopia 4. Attitudes to income-earning opportunities: report of a ranking exercise in Ethiopia 5. Economic classification of a community using locally generated criteria Publications: manuals and guidelines |
RRA Notes 8: General Issue
IIED, January 1990. 35 pp.
Out of print except as part of a complete set of back issues:
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1. Nutrition and RRA
Judith Appleton
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This paper looks at two attempts by nutritional consultants to use a stress calendar to improve community nutrition. This technique involves plotting factors affecting nutrition on a monthly basis to establish when in the year nutritional status is most likely to be at risk. Case study areas were East Palpa, Nepal and Chipatu Plateau, Zambia.
2. The use of wealth ranking in nutrition surveys in Sudan
Helen Young
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This paper describes the use of wealth ranking as part of rapid nutritional assessments undertaken between 1988 and 1989 in Darfur, Sudan by an Oxfam nutrition team. The objective was to establish whether it was the poorer families who were more likely to have malnourished children. Contrary to expectations, poor nutritional status did not correspond with low wealth status as perceived by the people themselves. This suggests that targetting food to households on the basis of socio-economic data may in some cases be inaccurate and wasteful.
3. The role of community participants in RRA methods in Ethiopia
Dessalegn Debebe
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Brief report of an RRA held in Bededo Peasant Association, northern Ethiopia.
4. Attitudes to income-earning opportunities: report of a ranking exercise in Ethiopia
Simon Maxwell
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This paper reports the methods and results of two ranking exercises. Both aimed to investigate (i) the range of perceived income-earning opportunities, (ii) the criteria they use to select options, (iii) the ranking of alternative options. The results showed that farmers are aware of and practice a large number of income-enhancing options, both in and out of agriculture. They use a sophisticated set of criteria for choosing between them. Food for work ranks high on most of these criteria.
5. Economic classification of a community using locally generated criteria
Parmesh Shah
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This paper describes a five day RRA exercise carried out in a village in Gujarat, in order to classify the economic status of a community. The classifications were obtained through interviews carried out with key people in the village. Each household was classified using criteria developed by the villagers themselves. The paper reports the results under the following headings: health of family members; education of children; assets ownership; credit worthiness; land ownership; part-time employment; and house size.