Participatory Rural Appraisal Training Workshop held at Village Gerebir, Block Silli, District Ranchi, Bihar, India 13-17 August 1990

This is their report of a PRA training workshop organised by PRADAN for its staff and 15 other trainees. Part I of the report gives a detailed description of the process of the workshop in the site in which it occurred, including the processes of mapping, time lines, seasonality charts, historical transects, modelling, chapati diagramming, ranking and scoring, planning, and evaluation. Part II gives more detail on each of the activities, the methods used and how they worked out. Annex II gives an overview of the R/PRA methodology. Annex IV gives some hints on interviewing.