Course Overview

This course provides understanding of tools that provide a broad range of strategies to affirm community values, needs and aspirations, which become the drivers of plans that reflect and advance the community’s vision for the future. This course has been designed in a way that will help the students to conduct participatory research.   

Course Objectives

It is expected that upon completion of the course student will learn the following issues:

·       Basics of development fieldwork

·       The value of community participation

·       Various mode and techniques of participation

·       Macro-economic development philosophies which articulate planning practices in developing countries

·       Practical demonstration of data collection techniques in a participatory way

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

This course aims that at the end of this course, students will be able to conduct participatory research using the theoretical knowledge of the course 3151.

At the end of the course the students will be able to-

·       Explain the concept of community;

·       Identify the various techniques used in participation;

·       Analyse the role of stakeholders in contemporary planning process;

·       Use participatory research methods in analysing urban and rural problems;

·       Carry out qualitative research in both urban and rural context.