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1. Participatory Rural Appraisal
Sikandar khan
BS 5th sociology

2.  participatory means that people are involved in the process a ‘bottom up’
approach that requires good communication skills and attitude of project
staff.
 Rural is the technique can be used in any situation urban or rural with both
literate and illiterate people
 Appraisal is the finding out of information about problems ,needs village.
It is the first stage in any project participatory .

3. Definitions
 The basic concept of PRA is to learn from rural people.(Problems,etc)
 PRA is based on village experience where communities effectively manage
their natural resources.
 PRA is a methodology of learning rural life and their environment from
the rural people.

4. Key Principles
• Participation
participation by the communities
• Flexibility
time and resources available
• Team work
• conducted by a local team with local language
• Optimal ignorance
• both time and money
• Systematic- generated data, qualitative nature

5. Aim and Objective
• To incorporate the knowledge and opinion of rural people in the planning
and management of development project and programs.
• To acquaint the participant with the basic concept and methods of the
participation rural appraisal techniques.

6. Methods and techniques in Pra
• Transact walk
 You can walk in all the streets and in the farms if they are nearby
• Resource map-
 Resource map is one of the most commonly used PRA methods next to
social map.
 Get the villagers draw a social map of that village. social map is an
excellent tool to collect a wealth of information
 Demographic particulars

7.  Social particulars
 Infrastructure details
 School going children, drop outs child labour