Rapid Assessment Methodologies: A Conference Summary

Abstract

Editor's note A four-day global conference to share experiences in the use of rapid assessment methodologies for the evaluation and improvement of many different kinds of nutrition and health interventions was convened in Washington D.C.. in November 1990. The meeting included individual presentations and panel discussions of training and communication results. Among the health-related activities to which RAP methods have been applied are programmes concerned with AIDS, epilepsy, yaws, onchocerciasis diarrhoeal disease and family planning and programmes for the elderly. This paper provides a masterly summary of a very complex meeting. A hook based on the conference presentations is in preparation.