PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL (PRA)
Participatory Rural Appraisal, on the other hand, is a family of approaches and methods, which enable the local people to analyze their situation to plan and act. It is a methodology for interacting with rural people, understanding and learning from them. Thus, PRA can be defined as an intensive and systematic learning experience carried out in a community by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and / or, development personnel including local people. The method nets, in a relatively short time, people’s views about their world, along with their felt needs in addition to providing valuable insights in to the dynamics of rural life. PRA as a research development methodology has primarily been evolved to appraise the rural resources, problems and requirements by the rural people themselves under the facilitation of research and development workers.
PRA TECHNIQUES
1. Collection of the basic information of the village
2. Village transect
3. Agra ecology map
4. Resource map
5. Social map
6. Mobility map
7. Time line and Time Trend
8. Seasonal analysis
9. Impact / consequence diagram
10. Wealth Ranking
11. Livelihood Analysis
12. Farm Household map
13. Bio Resource Flow Diagram
14. Venn Diagram
15. Daily Routine Diagram
16. Indigenous Technical Know How Map
17. Technology Map
18. Matrix Ranking
19. Preference Ranking
20. Problem Tree
21. Solution Tree
22. Action Plan
This was the way our PRA went
We did
Population Analysis
Political Map
Crop Pyramid
Seasonal Analysis
Timeline Trend
Survey Map
Mobility Map
Problem Tree
Here I post the Glimpse of our PRA
https://youtu.be/19X1vzAfR34?si=KYT8mTOr-lEDcl-S
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