Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) is a method for empowering rural or other low tech communities by giving them the tools to analyze their own communities. Such analysis is often much more accurate and insightful than that done by outside professionals from the academic world. The process of analysis also provides local villages and other communities with the basis they need to interact effectively with government and other outside business and institutional organisations.
Various reports from members of the Network, both SD nationals and projects.
2003 Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) how to become a True Believer
2006-2007 Mithra Foundation Annual Report
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SD Project Reports
Mithra Foundation's Annual Report for the years 2006 through 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ mithraAR-2007.pdf ] [ mithraAR-accounts-2006-2007.xls ]
2007 A Child's Garden of Peace Update
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SD Project Reports
Illène Pevec, founder of A Child's Garden of Peace (Brazil) reports on events in June 2007.
2007 Albadi School: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports
2007 Annual Report from Albadi Orphanage and School Project in D.R. Congo.
Download attachment(s): [ albadiAR-2007.pdf ]
2007 Center for Culture and Development , Summer Camp Report
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SD Project Reports
Supported by SD Norway, this one week program in a village near Madurai, India, was designed so that children had an opportunity to express themselves freely and genuinely. Here is the report of the camp.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_summerCamp-2007.pdf ]
2007 Colegio Amanecer Annual Report
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SD Project Reports
2007 Report on the Colegio Amanecer Nuestra Señora de Fatima in Colombia.
2007 Fundación Amanecer Annual Report
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SD Project Reports
Amanecer Foundation was created in September 1991. Its objectives include: developing educational and social programmes which encourage a balance between a human being’s interior and exterior contents.
2007 Mithra Foundation: The India Civil Society Summit
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Regional Reports
India now claims superpower status as a nuclear weapons state and nearly double-digit economic growth. In contrast to these signs of progress we have the dubious distinction of being on the wrong side of other indicators of human development—maternal mortality, female infanticide and foeticide, and deaths due to preventable diseases, to name several. India’s progress is uneven: while she is developing world-class technology and services; she also has has the world’s largest number of poor and illiterate people. For many, freedom—in its true sense—is yet to dawn. For these people, the struggle continues.
2007 Project Report: YUM - A Trip to Kalimantan
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SD Project Reports
In the spring of 2007, Olvia Resksodipoetro of Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) and several others took a trip to Kalimantan where they visited a number of SD related projects.
Download attachment(s): [ kalTrip_2007.pdf ]
2007 Project: Center for Culture and Development, Construction Report
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SD Project Reports
The Centre for Culture and Development received 1350 GDP from SD Britain for the construction of the building of multi-purpose hall for a supplementary coaching centre Children at Kaligrammam.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_constructionReport-2007.pdf ]
2007 SD Canada Annual Report
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SD National Reports
SD Canada's annual report for 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdCanadaAR-2007.pdf ]
2007 SD Germany Annual Report
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SD National Reports
Susila Dharma Germany's annual report for 2007.
2007 SD Viet Nam Annual Report
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SD National Reports
SD Viet Nam reports on their activities in 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdVietNamReport-2007.pdf ]
2007 SDIA Annual General Meeting Minutes
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Conference Reports,
Members' Meetings
Minutes of the SDIA annual general meeting held on August 25th, 2007 in Ascot, England.
Download attachment(s): [ sidaAGMminutesAscot-2007-08.pdf ]
2007 SDIA Lewes Conference, by Ridwan Kennedy
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Members' Meetings
Director from SD Britain reports on the Lewes Conference:
From Thursday 25 January until Sunday 28 January forty members representing SD International and SD National bodies from various European countries, Norway and North America met in Lewes. All SD (Britain) Board members attended and Ridwan Kennedy gives his recollection of the meeting below.
From Thursday 25 January until Sunday 28 January forty members representing SD International and SD National bodies from various European countries, Norway and North America met in Lewes. All SD (Britain) Board members attended and Ridwan Kennedy gives his recollection of the meeting below.
Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_Kennedy-2007_1.pdf ]
2007 SDIA Lewes Conference— An Invitation to Transform the World
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Members' Meetings
Solen Lees Gratiet from SD France reports on her impressions of the SDIA Conference in Lewes, England, January 2007.
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2007 SDIA Lewes Conference— Lewes is worth a visit!
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Members' Meetings
Members from SD Germany report on the conference in Lewes, January 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_sdGermany-2007_1.pdf ]
2008 Entrelazos Informe de Miembros Asociados
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SD Project Reports
Download attachment(s): [ entrelazos-informeDeMiembros-2008.pdf ]
2008 German Grant to Anisha for Indian Farmers
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SD Project Reports
Anisha has received a sizable grant to help marginalized farmers in a region south of Bangalore, India to maintain a place in the changing Indian economy.
2008 Puppeteers Without Borders in Bosnia
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Participants from the Balkan countries, dedicated to theatre, and to the social and cultural fabric of Bosnian society, took part in a conference called “Mask, Object, Puppet: A Powerful Means of Theatrical Expression. Erica Sapir, of Puppeteers Without Borders gave a presentation called, “Using puppetry in education with special emphasis on Non Violent Communication.”
2008 SD Australia - Report
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SD National Reports
Susila Dharma work is moving strongly in Australia. In June 2008, Renee Goetz, chair, reports on several efforts.
2008 SD Serbia Report: School Without Violence
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SD National Reports
The “School without Violence” is a comprehensive program to educate children, teachers, parents and the broader community in Serbia about the ongoing problem of intolerance, violence and harassment at schools in Serbia. The problem of violence among children is not a new one in Serbia. But for far too long it has been neglected and allowed to exist on the periphery of the national consciousness. The goals of this new UNICEF project are multifold: to bring the problem of bullying and violence in school into the daylight; to raise the consciousness of parents and community members regarding the right of every child to feel secure at school; to make a protective network within all schools; to connect this network with outside services and resources, and to preventively respond before the threat of serious incidents escalates.
2008 SD Serbia: Schools Without Violence- Belgrade Marathon
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SD National Reports
The Belgrade Marathon has now joined in the partnership for the “School without Violence“. The slogan of this year’s marathon is “19th Belgrade Banca Intesa Marathon – for School without Violence“. …International sports legend Carl Lewis will also join the campaign. He will be a special guest and promoter at the fundraising cocktail party for the corporate sector
2008 SDIA Annual General Meeting Minutes
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Conference Reports,
Members' Meetings
2008 Minutes from the Annual General Meeting of SDIA members in Colombia.
2009-04 BCU Starts 2 Classrooms
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SD Project Reports
Kalimantan BCU School has started building two new classrooms. The existing classrooms around the latihan hall can only hold a maximum
12 pupils with limited space and the school had reached full capacity
with 55 students. The school has grown from 36 pupils in mid-2008 to 55 now. Four new
classrooms are needed to help us increase our student body to 96 pupils, which is the
financial break-even point…