Training Notes on PRA For Village Planning

This comprehensive collection of papers on PRA would be useful for planning the content of a workshop and putting together background information. The first sections are on Concepts and Principles, followed by a Summary of PRA and RRA Methods. Each main method then becomes a section in itself, beginning with an explanation of the purpose of the method, a list of "do's and don'ts", and containing published articles on issues (eg "Is PRA culturally neutral?" in the section on Semi Structured Interviewing) and case-studies with diagrams. Sections vary in length and variety of material, with semi-structured interviewing, matrix scoring and wealth ranking being particularly well covered. The final section of case-studies contains articles comparing RRA with conventional survey techniques. This collection does not deal with training methodology.