Capacity Building Workshops RIB organized a workshop on PAR at Nilphamari mainly for those researchers who have already submitted proposal for funding but needs to get them oriented on PAR. The researchers who were asked to resubmit their proposals were selected and then invited by the capacity building department of RIB. Mr. Alauddin Ali who is an expert in PAR facilitated the workshop. The workshop three day long, starting from February 16 till February 19, 2004. In all 16 participants were participated in the workshop. Mr Ali, facilitated the discussion with the participants in a participatory method. The workshop concentrated on issues like (i) underlying causes of poverty as identified by the disadvantaged groups themselves; (ii) differences between research and development projects (iii) how PAR is related or distinct from other participatory methods like PRA; (iv) the role of animators; and (v) how PAR research findings can be disseminated all over the country. The participants of the workshop took part very actively in the discussions, they were then formed in groups and then taken to different fields to observe. They again had discussions among them after coming back from the field on experiences of field visit. The participants were very happy at the end of the workshop and one of the participant said "usually when any workshop ends we get a lot of documents information and paper work to study, but from this workshop we are taking back everything in our brains." According to the participants of the workshop, the best way of disseminating PAR among the researchers and development workers is to establish PAR experimental villages and taking the interested researchers to these villages.