David Moore Fellowship

1997: Wendy Carter won the top award for 1997 to help her to start a project on primary health care in Zapallal, Peru. Her aim is to leave behind her a programme for local care workers and teachers to initiate projects to improve existing education, nutrition and health standards in the village. Wendy was planning to return to this country during the early part of this year.

Mark Grindley led a team on the Project Elgon '97 to assist the Mount Elgon Conservation and Development Project to carry out research to expand the limited knowledge of the conflicts within the Mount Elgon National Park in S E Uganda, especially between those who live there and those who simply visit. The project was completed and Mark has sent a copy of his final report to us. This report will also form part of his final dissertation.

1998: Julia Betts has been awarded the Fellowship to examine how the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques in the planning and implementation of adult literacy projects affects women's impetus for socio-economic development in the community. A set of three PRA-based literacy projects in rural El Salvador will be investigated and her work will be monitored by both CIAZO (Inter-Agency Committee for Literacy) and Action Aid.

The second Fellowship for 1998 was made to Sebastian Taylor who is studying development aid agencies and how they work with aid beneficiaries in the developing world. He is concentrating on the work of a UK charity (Mines Advisory Group), looking at its work with local village communities in the clearance of unexploded ordnance, as well as rural development, in South-East Asia, amongst the villages of Xieng Khouang Province, Laos.