Participatory rural appraisal (PRA)

Participatory rural appraisal (PRA)

    Introduction
  • The past decade has witness more shifts in the rhetoric of rural development than in its practice. These shifts includes the now familiar reversals from to down to bottom up from centralised standardisation to the local diversity and from blueprint to learning process. Linked with these and form Blueprint. There have also been small beginning of changes in modes of learning. He move here is away from extractive survey questionnaires and towards participatory appraisal and analysis in which more and more activities, previously appropriated by outsiders are carried out by the local rural or urban people themselves.
  • In these changes, a part has been played by two closely related families of approaches and of methods, often referred to as PRA which spread in the 1980’s and is further evolution into PRA which has come about fast and began to spread in the 1990’s. The purposes of this chapter are to outline the origins, principles and for PRA to explore and assess its strength, weakness and paradigmatic significance.

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