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| Behavior Change - Tools
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| Cultural Resources
Inventory |
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| This is a participatory appraisal tool
for use by communities and development workers. Working
together as a group, community members are guided through
the process of developing a simple matrix, or inventory,
of cultural structures, events, rituals, roles, relationships,
objects, symbols, etc. These may be integrated into various
development strategies. The matrix is compiled through
a combination of creative brainstorming, observant participation
and other anthropological methods. The process of developing
and using the inventory with development workers also
promotes a sense of mutual respect and cultural efficacy
and empowerment for the community members. |
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| The tool has its conceptual roots in
an anthropological coding system called the Outline of
Cultural Materials (G.P. Murdock, 1971). This was created
in order to develop an ethnographic database (known as
the Human Relations Area Files) on 350 groups around the
world. The cultural resource inventory was refined as
part of a package of tools developed under Africare's
"Dioro Approach," which applied IEC and
community organization strategies to a child survival
intervention in Mali. |
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