Please Stop the PRA RRA Rah

This article criticises some RRA and PRA for 'faddism': in fact it is neither new, revolutionary nor more than one useful set of research tools amongst many others. Above all, it is not an end in itself. It can turn out to be much like the top-down approach its proponents sought to avoid, e.g. if applied in a standardised manner, if it fails to address issues which emerge from the PRA, or if its application suffers from hidden biases. Many of the examples and issues raised in this paper usefully caution against 'bad' PRA.