This paper discusses a 6-day training of 'northern' development practitioners in a 'northern' setting: the Austrian Alps. The training was not designed to constitute 'full qualification' but to introduce trainees to the possibilities and limits of R/PRA.
A training programme for GTZ staff ("to let them have a taste for real life application of PRA techniques") focused on an area of the Austrian Alps undergoing rapid change due to tourism and infrastructure development. The "learning insights" from doing this exercise in the North are summarized as twelve points suggesting how PRA can help in 'Northern' countries and how PRA training in the North for aid personnel can be more effective than if held in 'Northern' countries.