This book offers a comprehensive discussion of participatory rural appraisal (PRA), which it defines as a body of methods to enable local people to share, enhance, and analyse their knowledge of life and conditions in order to plan, act, monitor, and evaluate their actions. The basic premise of PRA is that poor and marginalised people are capable of analysing their own realities and that they should be enabled to do so. The book provides examples from experience, material with directions for use, as well as suggestions for innovation. It explores multiple dimensions of the concept of participation, then covers specific PRA methods, explaining each with an introduction, applications, examples, a process outlining the steps, the time and materials required, and the advantages and limitations of using it.
