Hss 1 Lecture
Rapid tutal appraisal
- learning directly from the people
- better to imprecise, but to the point
- we don't know everything, lets admit it and focus on certain themes
- rapid collection, no generalization, bound to time and place
- urban bias (not visiting the actual people)
Participatory rural appraisal
- critical to RRA - not for local people
- people not only sources of information, but they also control and analyze it
- For who the data are? Who makes the conclusions? Who participates? In whose process?
- How to approach the people? Big cars are probably not the best.
- How to select he methods?
- researchers
- create relaxed atmosphere
- transmit informations (act as intermediary)
- prepare the learning ocassions
- select methods and adjust them
- observe, listen, learn
- activate participants
- support equality
Participatory Learning and Action PLA)
- PRA now means Participatory reflection and action
- the amount of information is not the most important thing
- weaknesses: everyone thinks, he/she should use it
- political aims, biased participation
