Can Rural Appraisal Really be Rapid? A Critical Assessment by a Group of 'Slow' Researchers and Practitioners
This paper is the outcome of a discussion among a group of researchers, all of whom have 1-2 year's field experience involving the use of 'informal, people-oriented, multi-disciplinary' research, about the relation of RRA methods to their own extended fieldwork experiences. The main source of difference was with the institutional context in which RRA developed. RRA presents itself as sensitive to local issues, but specific methodologies and aspects of the team context in which they are applied are locally impractical and insensitive.