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Publications

   

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Savings, credit and micro finance
   

Learning from the Mistakes of a Micro Finance Programme? The Case of the People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA) in Sri Lanka  
   
Author: Dr. Ramani Jayatilaka  
   
Year: 2000  
   

Local Revolving Funds: How to create 800 Small Rural Enterprises in Less than Five Years  
   
Author: Shanti Fernando  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

Savings and Credit in Rural Development Reflections on Informal financial Institutions in Wilpotha  
   
Author: Chamindra Weerackody  
   
Year: 1992  
   
   

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Child development
   

Rural Preschools – The PRDA Experience 1997-1998  
   
Author: Geethani Ekanayake  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

Teething Problems of Creating Self-Reliant Rural Preschools – The Experience of PRDA (May 1997-September 1998)  
   
Author: Felena Lovendhal  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

PRDA in a World of  Children – a grassroots testimony  
   
Author: Vijitha Fernando  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

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Institutional and capacity development
   

The Rural Micro-enterprise Development Program : The experience of CIPSI-PRDA in Sri Lanka  
   
Author: Adhanom Ghebremedhi  
   
Year: 2002  
   
   

The Evaluation of the project “Training and Re-enforcement of Rural Entrepreneurs” implemented by PRDA (People’s Rural Development Association) in collaboration with CIPSI/ITALY  
   
Author: Franscesco Bellio  
   
Year: 2002
   
   

Review performance of CBOs of PRDA in the utilization of the support from the CIPSI-PRDA Training and Reinforcement Programme for Groups of Small Rural Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Formulate a Five Year Development Plan through a Participatory Planning Process  
   
Year: 2002  
   
   

CIPSI-PRDA Training and Reinforcement Programme for Groups of Small Rural Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka: Summary proceedings of the Stakeholder Workshop to identify Objectives and Activities for project Inputs  
   
Year: 2001  
   
   

Towards A Participatory Democratic Culture of Governance in a Sri Lankan NGO – The Approach and Experience of the People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA)  
   
Author: Vijita Fernando  
   
Year: 2000  
   
   

Understanding Community Based Organisations (CBOs) – the PRDA Experience - leaders & followers, brokers & clients, factions & cliques  
   
Author: Geethani Ekanayake  
   
Year: 1999  
   
   

Village Dynamics? Field Workers Manual for understanding the social processes of the contemporary Sri Lankan village (In Sinhala language)  
   
Edited by Geethani Ekanayake  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

Critical  Self Reflection in an Experimental NGO – PRDA questions its own approach to grassroots development : 1989-1995  
   
Author: Ramani Jayasundera  
   
Year: 1997  
   
   

The First Six Years of An Experimental NGO –A Snapshot of the People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA) in 1995  
   
Author: Ramani Jayasundera  
   
Year: 1997  
   
   

Changing Contours of the Sri Lankan Village – A PRDA Perspective  
   
Author: Felena Lovendhal  
   
Year: 1997  
   
   

Glimpses of an Innovative NGO - a Northern Outlook  
   
Author: Nadege Mathevet  
   
Year: 1997  
   
   

Recommendations for the Restructing Process of  the People’s Rural Development Association (PRDA)  
   
Author: Iroshini Weerasuriya  
   
Year: 1997  
   

Challenge and Response : An Innovative Partnership of POs, NGOs, Entrepreneurs and Professionals  
   
Author: Chamindra Weerackody  
   
Year: 1992  
   
   
   

Blossoming Out – The Innovative Character of an Emerging Leadership : The Case Study of Karunawathie Menike of Wilpotha  
   
Author: Chamindra Weerackody  
   
Year: 1992  
   

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Women's entrepreneurship development
   

Case Studies of Women Entrepreneurs of  PRDA  
   
Year: 2002  
   

How Sri Lankan Women Use Project Opportunities to become Empowered : A study of PRDA’s Programmes for Women  
   
Author: Shirani Rajapakse  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

The Women’s Struggle within PRDA  
   
Author: Shirani Rajapakse  
Year: 1998  
   
   

Poverty Alleviation through Small Enterprise Development – an overview of PRDA’s Small Scale Prawn Farming Project 1989-1995  
   
Author: Felena Lovendhal  
   
Year: 1998  
   
   

Understanding Micro-Entrepreneurs – Stories from the Village  
   
Author: Marie Cadoux  
   
Year: 1997  
   
   

Manual of Entrepreneurship Development (Sinhala Language)  
   
Author: Shanti Fernando  
   
Year: 1993  
   
   

From Poverty to Prosperity : A Success Story with a Difference in Small Enterprise Development  
   
Author: Richard A. Dias  
   
Year: 1992  
   
   

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Technology
   

Small Scale Prawn Farms in Sri Lanka? Origin, Evolution and Future  
   
Author: Ramani Fernando  
   
Year: 1992  
   
   
   

An Introduction to Banana Fibre Extraction and Handicraft Production Techniques  
   
Author: K.D. Pieris  
   
Year: 1989  
   
   

The Technology of Producing Handicraft Items from Coconut Matolu  
   
Author: K.D. Pieris  
   
Year: 1989  
   
   

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Poverty alleviation
   

Some Heretical Thoughts on Rural Development: Rural Disintegration as an Alternative Strategy of Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Sri Lanka  
   
Authors: Sunimal Fernando, Willie Gamage and S. Mahinda De Silva  
   
Year: 1989  
   
   

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Mental Health and Wellbeing
   

Mental Health and Wellbeing – Experience of communities affected by conflict and 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka  
   
Authors:Chamindra Weerackody and Suman Fernando  
   
Year: 2009  
   
Price: Rs. 250/=  
   
   
 
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