PRA tools used | Purpose |
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Transect | Knowing the area, building relationships, and spreading the word about the project. |
Social Map | Understanding the social structure, assessing the available institutional resources e.g., SHOs, health facilities. |
Seasonal Calendar | Seasonal dimension of livelihood, workload, farming, food availability, human diseases, gender-specific income and expenditure. |
Daily activity clock | Knowing the pattern of villagers’ daily activities. Particularly, for looking at relative workloads of different groups in the community. Identifying suitable time for the availability of the villagers. |
Venn Diagram | Portraying the importance of various health problems and utilization of health services. |
Village history | Bringing a historical perspective of change and development, and that change is always a part of societal development. |
Focus Group Discussion | Identifying major health problems, ranking the problems in terms of perceived importance, and identifying perceived causes, and discussing scientific causes and possible solutions. |
People’s Participatory Planning | Developing a work plan with a time line, assigning who will do what, identifying progress monitoring indicators. |
Participatory Impact Monitoring and Evaluation | Monitoring impact of SHO activities, as a routine work, using data collected by the SHO members, and analysed with the help of the project staff members. |