Rapid Assessment Procedures: Qualitative Methodologies for Planning and Evaluation of Health Related Programmes (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1992, 528 pages): Section VII: Conference summary, comments, speakers and participants: 42. Rapping on RAP: Selected comments and responses from the conference: (introductory text...)

Rapid Assessment Procedures: Qualitative Methodologies for Planning and Evaluation of Health Related Programmes (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1992, 528 pages)

Section VII: Conference summary, comments, speakers and participants

42. Rapping on RAP: Selected comments and responses from the conference

		*(introductory text...)*
		Qualitative vs quantitative: Is there really a debate?
		Who can do RAP: How low can you go?
		Linking RAP to action and policy
		Theoretical foundations: Why are they important?
		Training: How much, how long and who?
		Sampling theory and RAP
		RAP's expanding uses and dimensions
		How rapid is RAP?

(introductory text...)

All plenary sessions of the conference including most comments by participants were audio taped by PAHO technicians. A selection of the comments made after individual sessions was placed without attribution throughout this volume. However, when these comments were reviewed, a number of recurrent themes surfaced across the various sessions and panels. In order to provide the reader with additional insight as gained from the participants, major themes were listed in this chapter and a selection of relevant comments placed under each. What were originally oral comments have been shortened in many cases and edited. Thus, these comments should not be seen as direct quotes but rather synopses of the ideas brought to these themes by various participants. - Eds.