Health Aspects of the Community Development Project, Rural Area, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1948–51 1

1953 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevin S. Scrimshaw ◽  
Charles P. Loomis ◽  
Alfonso B. Salazar ◽  
Julio O. Morales
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Nuntiya Doungphummes ◽  
Mark Vicars

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an account of a PAR project in a Thai community and to discuss the methodological implications of implementing a culturally responsive approach.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on the frameworks for PAR conducted as a community development project with rural Thai communities.FindingsThe paper reviews the use of a PAR approach as a culturally responsive approach and presents an experience of culturally situated research practice.Originality/valueThis paper encourages researchers conducting participatory inquiry to engage in deeper critical reflection on the implications of these methods in keeping with PAR's critical ontological, epistemological and axiological orientation.


1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Bissell ◽  
Ernesto Pretto ◽  
Derek C. Angus ◽  
Bern Shen ◽  
Victor Ruíz ◽  
...  

AbstractIntroduction:The 1991 earthquake in the Limón area of Costa Rica presented the opportunity to examine the effectiveness of a decade of disaster preparedness.Hypothesis:Costa Rica's concentrated work in disaster preparedness would result in significantly better management of the disaster response than was evident in earlier disasters in Guatemala and Nicaragua, where disaster preparedness largely was absent.Methods:Structured interviews with disaster responders in and outside of government, and with victims and victims' neighbors. Clinical and epidemiologic data were collected through provider agencies and the coroner's office.Results:Medical aspects of the disaster response were effective and well-managed through a network of clinic-based radio communications. Nonmedical aspects showed confusion resulting from: 1) poor government understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the central disaster coordinating agency; and 2) poor extension of disaster preparedness activities to the rural area that was affected by the earthquake.Conclusion:To be effective, disaster preparedness activities need to include all levels of government and rural, as well as urban, populations.


1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Lees

At the end of 1971 the Government designated the extention of the Community Development Project to the planned total of twelve areas. The project was then described as ‘a national action-research experiment’ carried out in selected urban localities in order to discover ‘how far the social problems experienced by people in a local community can be better understood and resolved through closer co-ordination of all agencies in the social welfare field – central and local government and the voluntary organizations – together with the local people themselves’. There was a special emphasis placed on the importance of ‘citizen involvement and community self-help’, together with the expectation that ‘the lessons learned can be fed back into social policy, planning and administration, both at central and local government level’.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Christopher Haddox

This work represents the authors’ contributions to a multidisciplinary community development project about Scotts Run—a community that sprang up along a creek of the same name in western Monongalia County, West Virginia. Lyrics and recitation resulted from intense engagement with a core of remaining residents who related their stories about life up and down the creek. The songs and recitation were combined with several other songs, readings, narrations, videos, images, and artifacts in a public performance that engaged the residents of Osage and Scotts Run in a telling of their own story.


Author(s):  
Oitshepile MmaB Modise ◽  
Rebecca Lekoko ◽  
Joyce Mmamaleka Thobega

The chapter presents a case of a community development project known as Lentswe La Oodi Weavers in a rural village, Oodi, in the Kgatleng district of Botswana with a goal of socio-economic empowerment for women operating it and for the community. The project reinforces sentiments that technology work best for local communities if it is compatible with their ways of life. The women who started the project almost 30 years ago did not have any formal education and achieved their dignity in their own communities as women who are independent and have empowered themselves for better livelihoods and sustainable income, meager as it may be. They use their natural talent of weaving and boost their productivity through compatible ICTs such as spinning wheel, Bobbin wheel, and flat looms. Short training is done to strengthen these natural skills. Their products are bought internationally. Challenges include lack of skills for proper management. They live in the world of bookkeeping and book auditing and their project is susceptible to problems if it does not go through such procedures. Thus, these women skill-needs are mostly in areas of management, marketing, and selling their produce; all of these could be said to need formal training.


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