Community Participatory Learning and Appraisal (PLA) Techniques

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CLIENT		National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and United State Agency For International Development (USAID)

PROJECT		Support to Municipal Corporation Ludhiana to Improve Access of Service to the Poor, Phase I & II, USAID FIRE/NIUA, India, February 2002 - April 2003

ABOUT THE PROJECT		The Project involved analysing the progress in the disinvestments of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and formulating a programme to accelerate the disinvestments process. The tasks included setting up of a monitoring systems and key indicators to measure the progress in the reform process and the commitment of the government to the process.

TIME PERIOD		14 months

SERVICES		• Held a series of Training Workshops for community workers; • Prepared 100 community level Digitized Household maps; • Organized a City Level Workshop for information dissemination; • Conducted situation analysis and primary surveys of 1200 household; • Charted out an action plans for community development and slum improvement for the chosen settlements; • Selection of five settlements for implementing improvements; • Designed and Implemented a City level action plan for increasing access of basic services to the poor; • Assessed the training needs of MCL staff and on the basis of that, developed Draft Training Modules for MCL staff training.

KEYWORDS		Community Participatory Learning and Appraisal (PLA) Techniques
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