Attitude and Behaviour Towards PRA among PRA Practitioners

This brief workshop paper stresses the role of attitudes and behaviour of PRA practitioners towards the overall philosophy of PRA. Any change in the behaviour and attitudes of outside professionals practising PRA should be permanent in nature rather than being merely need-based or temporary. Three broad categories of PRA practitioners based on their quality and convictions are identified. The paper asserts that good quality PRA training would certainly help change the attitudes and behaviour of the PRA practitioners to a great extent, while cultural and institutional barriers and a bad-quality PRA training would do quite the opposite.