Participatory Survey and Planning Methods in Development Cooperation: Rapid Rural Appraisal, Participatory Appraisal. An Introduction with Commentary

Publication year: 
1994

This comprehensive text begins with an introduction to key concepts of RRA and PRA, a consideration of the limitations of the methods, and a look into the future. The book considers the use of PRA in the project cycle, various methodological approaches in practice, participatory action research (PAR), Participatory Assessment, Monitoring and Evalustion (PAME) and ethnographic approaches; provides a toolbox of PRA methods and concludes with lists and directories of PRA Resources.

Interest groups: 
There are two particularly useful aspects of this book - 1) it looks at PRA in the context of other participatory methods and 2) the method toolbox which is comprehensive and clear.
Source publication information
Series: 
GTZ "Schriftenriehe" Publication, no. 231
Publisher
GTZ
GTZ
Eschborn
Publisher reference: 
GTZ

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A : Participatory approaches 583
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