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Rapid appraisal

Year of publication 1989

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Community Forestry Note

Series number 1020-3133

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The increasing incorporation of rural development goals in forestry activities has created a parallel need for relevant socio-economic information. Although data is often available from independent studies conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it often does not focus on development or natural resource management. When included in forestry project formulation or implementation teams, social scientists often feel that they are not given enough time to adequately research complicated and s ite specific issues. Foresters, for their part, observe that socio-economic data is frequently too voluminous to analyze, difficult to relate directly to programme activity design or management decisions, or so time consuming to collect that it arrives too late or is out of date before it is ready to use. It became apparent that there was a need for alternative techniques for socioeconomic information gathering to address the above problems in community forestry projects. One method that has b een used increasingly in development projects is called rapid appraisal. Rapid appraisal is essentially a process of learning about rural conditions in an intensive, iterative and expeditious manner, specifically designed to improve quality and timeliness and to reduce cost. Characteristically rapid appraisal adopts a dialogue method in which a small interdisciplinary team works directly with local people to identify the constraints they face and opportunities for addressing them.

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