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Empowering Children is especially designed for field practioners seeking ways to encourage young people – particularly the marginalized- to become more involved in changing their circumstance. Through dozens of exercises and lessons, the book presents a variety of practical methods for engaging children in the development process – from assessments to Evaluations.
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“Transformation is Progressive, Permanent, God intended change”. This book is a collection of many stories of transformation in the lives of individual people and communities that the author recounts from his many years of involvement in development work. It traces significant aspects of transformation to draw lessons from them. Each story is written to be an inspiration in itself and is sure to challenge the reader to engage in similar work.

This is a resource book especially written for those in the field working for development programs of various kinds and interacting with special interest groups on health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, Agriculture development, NRM, Animal Husbandry, Literacy, Sponsorship, CEDC, Micro Finance, local self-government etcetra. The book focuses on how to work with and facilitate various groups.

This is a comprehensive book on Participatory Poverty Alleviation and Development with examples and frameworks for development strategies from the author’s extensive experience in over 10 countries around the world.

This book available from the author also in English, is a comprehensive description of the Ten Seeds Technique (TST) with multiple examples from the Peoples Republic of China.

A user friendly manual designed to be a practical tool for project managers in disaster prone areas. The PLA tools described are simple ones that can easily be understood and practiced. Examples from Cambodia and the Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos.

The food security status of a household is also manifest in the type of house the household has. This is another rapid way to assess the household food security status that the household has. This methodology was later developed into the RFSA – Rapid Household Food security status tool.

Research findings from Ban Hai Village on the Banks of the Maekong river in Laos PDR

This is a detailed manual on the use of the TST for Food Security and development programs.

This is a record of new tools developed for use in FGDs while working for HIV/AIDS prevention programs.

This book covers details on how to work with the Urban Poor who live in slums and ghettos and mobilize and engage them to participate actively in their development process. This was prepared in the late 90's for the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) in Delhi and also adopted for use in the urban programs in western India.

This book seeks to provide the readers with an understanding about how a Worldview develops in close correlation to the community’s survival strategy. The techniques mentioned enable one to carry out a Holistic Worldview analysis as well as measure what matters in effective christian Witness.

Sustainable Enterprise for income generation involves integrating it with the Supplies , Skills and Sales dimensions of the Enterprise. This is a collection of some of the profiles of simple enterprises and how to profile them.

A brief booklet aimed at young people seeking God’s will related to Marriage and finding God’s will for their lives.

This is a comprehensive book on Participatory Poverty Alleviation and Development with examples and frameworks for development strategies from the author’s extensive experience in over 10 countries around the world.

This is a detailed analysis of the FAITH project that later went on to become “Puniya Liu”, an organization for promoting Holistic Integrated development in Cambodia.

This is a resource book especially written for those in the field working for development programs of various kinds and interacting with special interest groups on health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, Agriculture development, NRM, Animal Husbandry, Literacy, Sponsorship, CEDC, Micro Finance, local self-government etcetra. The book focuses on how to work with and facilitate various groups.

This issue of the Child Survival connections magazine focuses mainly on the use of the Ten Seed Technique in the context of Integrated community development and explains how it can be used in a variety of needs assessment situations.

This book available from the author also in English, is a comprehensive description of the Ten Seeds Technique (TST) with multiple examples from the Peoples Republic of China.

This booklet outlines the use of the TST in identifying the most vulnerable families in a community. It is step by step guide for practitioners.

This is a detailed manual on the use of the TST for Food Security and development programs.

This is the final report of the research on CBDM- Community Based Disaster Management in the flood prone areas of the Maekong in Laos PDR and Cambodia.

This research document focuses on the Participatory tools that are used for assessing the capacity of a community that lives in a disaster prone area to cope with disasters and rely on early warning systems.

The book focuses on how Christian Practioners express authentically the issue of Holistic Transformational development. Among other issues the book focuses on understanding Poverty, Participatory Learning and Action, Appreciative Inquiry, the Bible and transformational development, sustainable economic development, community transformation in the Urban context and community development and peace building.

A comprehensive review of Sexual networking patterns of tribal communities in the Navapur Region of Maharashtra, explaining techniques and methodology for the research study.

A collection of appropriate Participatory tools for collecting sensitive information related to HIV/AIDS and high risk behavior.

PRA has come to be used in recent times in a fairly large scale and for a variety of programs. It has been used effectively in Relief, Community development, Health programmer, Small Enterprise Development, Education, Agriculture, Micro watershed development, Animal Husbandry, Environmental development, Marketing, Forestry and Holistic Worldview analysis. This book provides a quick run through of the scope of PRA.

Life is made up of little things. This is especially true of Marriage and the important things that a couple experience as they learn from one another. Illustrated with cartoons by the author.