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Systems Strategy for Rural Community Assessment: SSRCA
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Robyn Mobbs A Systems Strategy for Rural Community Assessment or SSRCA (pronounced circa)
is a systems strategy which can be used by local communities to establish their
sustainability priorities and the means by which to realize them. The methodology
has five stages including community sociocultural assessment of local knowledges;
local identification of issues and priorities; local specification of research
methods and change process; local determination of outcomes; and the production
of deliverables. It is processual and cyclical. SSRCA involves familiarization
and validation of local community knowledge as well as local community participation
in decision-making similar to participatory action research. SSRCA methodology
shapes the inclusion of all sections of a community in the process of identifying
the local parameters for a community's sustainability and the garnering of expertise,
scientific or traditional available locally, nationally and/or, internationally
to realize priorities and needs.
Rural Extension Centre,
University of Queensland Gatton
e-mail: mobbsr@dpi.qld.gov.au
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