Poverty Participatory Research

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Nowadays, in the developmental researching practice, we know that the causes of poverty can be multi-dimensional, the analysis should be on the basic of the local context, and then come out with pointed strategies for reducing poverty, so this multi-dimensional analysis requires a much broader scale of researching, in other ways, it needs a broader participation of stakeholders who are involved in each part of this process, therefore, through the participatory research, it can deepen the understanding of poverty in term of different perspectives, finally it would impact on the policy making. So participation has become to the highlight and gained more and more attention in the poverty assessment(Lararus,2008).
Introduction
The method that poverty participatory assessments (PPAs) has provided a effective way for reducing poverty by public action, it use the participatory research methods to analyze the poverty from the perspectives of the poor, and through the poor involving to decide which part should be improved in the priority. And also it has made a contribution to influence the public policy making of reducing poverty(Norton,2001).
History
PPAs can be defined that it is a research method which analyze factors of poverty through different perspectives, especially including the poor views, and then improve the situation by influencing public policy(Stephen and Norton,1995). In 1990s, World Bank was focusing on developing approaches which could assess the the level of poverty in all countries which received aids to reduce poverty, the PPAs was one of these dominant approaches which researched the country poverty, the term of PPAs was created in 1992 by the World Bank. Before the PPAs, most of the research methods were only base...

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...servation and analysis. But in many cases, this requirements are hard to be met(Robb,2002).
The Future of PPAs
With the changing of environment, there will be more challenges emerging, the PPAs needs to keep adjust its structure constantly in order to adapt the new context(Larazus,2008). At present, the PPAS has already gotten some achievement, it invite the poor to participate in this research process, adding the poor’s perspectives, but in fact, the ownership is still largely controlled by most of the donor institutions, they have a powerful influence on the research, so for PPAs, in the next step of development, it need to solve this problem, strengthen the poor’ capacity of involving in process of policy making and balancing the power of authority. It needs to make a clear understanding of the rights and obligations of poor in the local environment(Norton,2001).

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