Bernard Conyers Fund

1998 Awards:

U Anbarasu, SCORD (Society for Community Organisation & Rural Development), India. Project: To produce a documentary film on organic compost production using locally available resources and materials. The completed video will be distributed to a range of agricultural departments, universities, NGOs etc;

Kayode Egbeleye, France. Project: To produce a multi-media package (video, CD-ROM, manual) entitled 'Hands on the Deck' which will be geared towards the information/skills transfer needs of field workers etc. He will use data from existing development projects of UNAIS (UK) and CAMERA NEGRA (France);

The Reverend Canon Zedekiah Chunge, Kenya. Project: To disseminate existing data to farmers to encourage/enable them to supplement their cane growing with increased food production, by inter-cropping with short term food/fodder crops. A report has been received on this project.

1999 Awards:

Badrul Alam, Bangladesh, to publish a book entitled 'Medicinal Plants for Livestock and Poultry in Disaster Prone Areas'. The book will be published in two formats - in Bangla for distribution to colleges, schools and NGOs etc and in English for distribution to university libraries and through the OXFAM Journal, Development in Practice;

Kimanzi Muthengi, Kenya, to produce a 25 minutes video entitled 'Lessons and challenges of the PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) methodology in the Third World: The Kenyan Experience'. His aim is to show, via his film, that the PRA methodology empowers the marginalised communities and can overcome hurdles imposed by top-down development practice that has created dependency on external aid;

Oyundari Galsandorj, living in London, to publish a Mongolian translation of R Emil Newman's book called The Complete Handbook on Health and Tips - the first Mongolian translation of any western medical book.