Publication year:
1994
This thought-provoking article reflects on issues around PRA, after the author attended a two day workshop in the UK. Srivastava questions the "mystification" of PRA techniques through using technical labels, such as "transect", and goes on to discuss the political dimensions of "empowerment through PRA". Using examples from her experience of working with poor women in India, she stresses the need for PRA "not to become a one-way process ...of eliciting knowledge from the people."
Interest groups:
Trainers of trainers, trainers, fieldworkers, planners, should consider the issues raised in this article.
Pages:
35-37