Resource Map is a free, open-source tool that helps
you make better decisions by giving a better insight into the location and
distribution of your resources. With Resource Map, our team can
collaboratively record, track, and analyse resources at a glance using a
live map
In PRA (Participatory
Rural Appraisal) Resource Map is a very effective tool to know about the
resource of the place, and it is also a good method to involve all person at
the same time as because of its large size. Everyone can contribute their ideas
and knowledge about the place in Resource mapping. It is also a good tool to
attract people’s mind into PRA as because we use various colour and different
materials as needed it is quite interesting than other tools of PRA.
In our
Resource Map at Anjan gram of Gumla Dist. of Jharkhand we use different
materials like tiles, green grasses, coloured powder, sketch pens, sand,
stone of different size, chart paper, etc.
Our team is
divided into groups, the mass mobilisation team collect the villagers for PRA.
In evening the villagers came in-front-of the Anjan mata temple, after a short
talk by the teachers we start to tell about the purpose of why we called them
for a meeting and make them understand that we are new in the village we don’t
know anything about the village we just want some information of the village
from them but not only questioning them but also using some PRA tool. And it is
also told that about tools they will be made aware before using them.
Anjan
gram. (google earth)
We just
provide them materials and told them to imagine this as a resource of the
village and place the resource at its proper place by making the temple the
centre. As example tiles are used at the place of hills, sand is use as the
roads, yellow powder used as river green powder used as paddy field, stone as
the temple and different colour of sketch pens for the little sources of the
village.
Legend
As the map
made by the villagers is not clearly understandable in picture so a modelling
map is done by us.
Findings:
By resource
mapping we find out the main resource of the village according to the
villagers. Those are
- · Hills
- · River
- · Temple
- · School
- · Health centre
- · Post office
- · Shops
- · Water tank
- · Well
- · Anganwari
- · Panchayat vaban etc.
By:
Saswatik Tripathy
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