Critical Analysis of Piaxtla Project

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PIAXTLA PROJECT
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INTRODUCTION
Project Piaxtla was taken up in Western Mexico, is a rural primary health care program
that is entirely being run by the local villagers. The Primary health care policy taken all over the
world is due to World Health Organization affiliated in a state meeting that was held at the Alma
Ata in the year 1978. The WHO members had designed a framework for enhancing the
healthcare of the community by the elimination of the discrimination and the inequalities in the
health care services (Bhatia & Rifkin, 2010). However, as per the agreement, there had been
three participatory approaches – the medical approach, the societal development approach and
the health care approach. It has been emphasized in the declaration that there is a need for the
social advancements and economic advancements in the field of health care (Bhatia & Rifkin,
2010). However, this report will critically analyze the project Piaxtla from the lense of a
participatory planning approach , the way the needs were assessed, the stakeholder who had
taken initiatives in the program and who might not have contributed, the way in which the
inequity was addressed and the degree to which the actions had been consistent to the principle
progressions of participatory planning.
METHODS OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING
Participatory planning strategy is a participatory approach for determining, proposing,
proposing and having imposed a management plan on many issues having a common goal or
interest. tI allows the integration of knowledge of the stakeholders, the scientists and the policy
makers, thus stimulation of the participatory reproach or action. Typically, it provides an
opportunity to tailor the management rules at a local or regional scales as per the needs of the
stakeholders (Kazutaka, 2012). A participatory planning approach instead establishes a bottom

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up approach rather than a typical top- down approach. Participation can be defined as the method
of making decision and problem solving, involving individuals and groups expressing diverse
interest , perception and expertise, who act for the good of all those who are impacted by the
decision making process (Kazutaka, 2012). McMurray & Clendon, (2015) have stated that this
participatory approach have the power of modifying the relation of power, that normally exists
between the client and the service provider. The responsibility of planning or evaluating is the
responsibility of the members of the community, who are the receiver of the services than the
external parties. Hence, the existing incapability of the external entities demands the
dissemination of the developmental agenda to the members of the society.
THE PARTICIPATORY PLANNING APPROACH
The participatory planning approach comprises of different techniques. Some of the
techniques used are visioning, charattes, and community mapping. These are used by the groups
of the community, trying to involve the investors in the planning.
A Charette can be defined as an intensive, multidisciplinary workshop that aims to plan a
project activity. These are normally used to plan building, parks or transportation system. A team
of experts meet and work together to design solution addressing the issues identified by the
stakeholders. Again, visioning is a process where a community is allowed to articulate their
visions. However, without proper implementation, the process of visioning in ineffective. It is
the responsibility of a steering committee to clearly articulate its values. In this methods it is the
steeing committee that designs a detailed plan of actions that needs to be performed by
government officials , non- profit business organization and the other key identities.

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Community planning on the other hand is a tool that can be used to understand the sory
about what is occurring in the community. At the time of community mapping, he community
members collaborate and the gather the field data, which are then statistically analyzed for
finding out important relationships with the other data like the socio-economic data.
Normally organization use a combination of techniques. It should be mentioned that the
participatory planning have to encounter normal dissimilarities, since they occur in settings, that
cannot be regulated. Another principle of participatory planning depends on examining the
variations (Doubova et al., 2016). The next hypothesis emphasizes on the importance of self-
awareness in the process of participatory planning. It helps the coordinators to assess the
behaviors and agree to the errors caused. Again, this method depends on the supposition of
enhancing readeorffs and the offsetting bias that helps to understand the need for both the
women and children. Eventually, a shared decision taking and a shared decision making is one of
the main element of the participatory planning approach (Doubova et al., 2016). It is these
concepts that emphasizes on the need to sustain learning among the rural community members
and exchange evidences amongst the community members and the facilitator.
PIAXTLA PROJECT ASSESSMENT
Changes over time in Needs assessments
Before the Mexican revolution, the poor class of people had come across enough
challenge related to the unequal distribution of the land. The Pofirio Diaz, helps in the fair
apportionment of the land at the expense of the native people. As significant portion of the farm
belonged to to the those who rich and not to the one belonging to low SES.