Community Assessment & Participatory Rural Appraisal
For organizations to provide relief and development services, a proper and accurate realization of needs is mandatory.
This can only be achieved through systematic and participatory assessments of the target community.
We come up with this course to address the “research-based” needs of development workers and managers for community assessment skills. This comprehensive five-day training workshop will ensure the participants gain a change in their performance and not only some useful information.
· Biases of rural development
· Comparison of PRA and RRA (Rapid Rural Appraisal)
· PRA Techniques and Methods
· Participatory Problem Analysis
· Steps in participatory planning
· Principles of Community Assessment
· Stakeholder management
· Biases of rural development
· Shortcoming (defects) of questionnaire methods
· Comparison of PRA and RRA
· PRA principles and features
· PRA has three pillars
· Methods and role reversals
· Scope of PRA and types of PRA .
· PRA Techniques
· Maps and Models – Diagrams
· Community Sketch Maps
· Time related data analysis
· Ranking and scoring
· Semi structured interviews (SSI)
· Direct observation
· Using secondary sources
· Interview guides and checklist development
· Steps in participatory planning
· Guidelines for Analyzing PRA findings
· PRA are good for
· PRA is not very useful for
Team leaders, NGO directors and project managers.