Pra tools

Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is a family of approaches and methods to enable rural people to share, enhance & analyze their knowledge of life & conditions, to plan & to act. Also known as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA).these slides will help you to understand the concept behind the PRA tools used in the extension surveys, to acquaint themselves with the knowlegde of village, town or area of interest.

1. Skuast -j AEXT-311 TOPIC: PARTICIPARTORY RURAL APPRAISAL (pra)

2. INTRODUCTION to pra WHAT IS PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL? Appraisal – The finding out of information about problems, needs, and potential in a village. It is the first stage in any project. Participatory – Means that people are involved in the process in deciding how something is done. Rural – The techniques can be used in any situation, urban or rural, with both literate and illiterate people.

3. PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL (PRA) PRA - Methods of data collection. But makes the DIFFERENCE? Participatory in nature. Community people are the Master. Expert knowledge not required. You are only a Facilitator/ Mobiliser In other word , Participatory rural appraisal (PRA ) is a family of approaches and methods to enable rural people to share, enhance & analyze their knowledge of life & conditions, to plan & to act. Also known as Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)

4. CHALLENGES Expect the unexpected (rodents, mosquitoes, street hawking, open markets) Expect poor road conditions No electricity or power failures (your computer loses power…) Lots of people may follow you around (no confidentiality!) Time feels different So how are you going to get your work done?

5. KEY PRINCIPLES Participation – local people serve as partners in data collection and analysis Flexibility - not a standardized methodology Teamwork – everyone is involved Diversity – attempts made to identify and analyse contradictions and exceptions Optimal Ignorance – leave out unessential details Systematic – to get correct details and conclusions, it is best to cross check Reversal of Learning – Learning from rural people directly on the site and face to face.

6. pra techniques Physical mapping Do-it-yourself Venn-Diagram Time trend Matrix ranking Impact diagrams Semi – structured interviews Mapping- community members depicting the physical or social characteristics of their community. Social Mapping Wealth Ranking

7. social mapping Social mapping is a PRA method that involves the sketching/drawing of houses and other social facilities and infrastructure (i.e. temple, stores, rice mills, school, pharmacy, trails and roads, water pumps, irrigation and recreation facilities) in a village. It helps to visualize and situate the location of households and other social facilities/infrastructure in a village. It serves as a baseline for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of village development activities (including selection of village organizing strategy).

8. social map-by rural people

9. objectives To learn about the social structures in the village and the differences among the households by ethnicity, religion and wealth. To learn about who is living where. To learn about the social institutions and the different views local people might have regarding those institutions.

10. VILLAGERS & PANCHAYAT MEMBER WORKING AT SOCIAL MAPPING TOOL IN PRA TRIANING IN SUNDerBAN VILLAGE

11. wealth ranking This tool is a method for collecting and analyzing data on perceptions of wealth differences and inequalities in a community and for identifying and understanding local indicators and criteria of wealth, well-being, and poverty.

12. OBJECTIVE understanding socioeconomic differences within communities understanding local perceptions of and criteria for wealth, well-being, and inequality in a community categorizing households or social groups into different locally perceived economic or more general well-being categories exploring differences in how different people have access to and use resources identifying target group members before a project, program, or policy is changed or implemented, or to determine the extent to which targeting has proved successful after the event

13. card sorting method :

14. Wealth ranking

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