1. What is a rapport, how do you develop it, and how do you avoid breaking rapport when working with other illiterate people?
Rapport is very important to facilitate participation of a community and it is advised to rather establish in early phases of the process. Rapport between outsiders and villagers, together with a general trust are important and predisposing factors in Participatory rural appraisal measures. In the past, there were two very different ways, how the outsiders and local community would interact. First case being a rural development person being rushed and not self-critical, while having no time or being not sensitive enough to get much beyond a formal understanding. Second case would be a social anthropologist, who would, …show more content…
Such early behaviour can be a transparency and honesty about who they are and their mission, participation in the local community’s activities and especially in learning and performing important village tasks. What also counts is being patient, showing respect and humility, being interested in what villagers are saying and showing, no rush, paying attention, watching, listening and not interrupting. All this leads to successful activities such as mapping or matrix scoring. Also, with these methods, in contrast with questionnaires, villagers don’t feel like the information is just handed over to them, but feel, that it is theirs. They enjoy what they are doing and learn by …show more content…
The PRA as an approach was then developed in the start of 1990s, with a shift of approach from top-down to bottom-up and from only handing over the information to the learning process. The shift is more concretely from questionnaires to experience sharing with the community. Intention of PRA is to enable locals to create their own analysis and on its basis to plan and take action. It involves the project workers, who learn about the local customs, processes and about the village from the villagers. PRA aims for strengthening the ability of locals to plan, decide and to take actions to improve their situation on their own.
Methodology of a PRA is about learning about rural life and the environment from the local community. Researchers and field workers should act like facilitators and help the community to create their own analysis, plans and to take according actions. The principle it’s based on is, that the local people are capable of investigating, analysing and planning actions. PRA’s basic principal is learning from rural
Rapport is very important to facilitate participation of a community and it is advised to rather establish in early phases of the process. Rapport between outsiders and villagers, together with a general trust are important and predisposing factors in Participatory rural appraisal measures. In the past, there were two very different ways, how the outsiders and local community would interact. First case being a rural development person being rushed and not self-critical, while having no time or being not sensitive enough to get much beyond a formal understanding. Second case would be a social anthropologist, who would, …show more content…
Such early behaviour can be a transparency and honesty about who they are and their mission, participation in the local community’s activities and especially in learning and performing important village tasks. What also counts is being patient, showing respect and humility, being interested in what villagers are saying and showing, no rush, paying attention, watching, listening and not interrupting. All this leads to successful activities such as mapping or matrix scoring. Also, with these methods, in contrast with questionnaires, villagers don’t feel like the information is just handed over to them, but feel, that it is theirs. They enjoy what they are doing and learn by …show more content…
The PRA as an approach was then developed in the start of 1990s, with a shift of approach from top-down to bottom-up and from only handing over the information to the learning process. The shift is more concretely from questionnaires to experience sharing with the community. Intention of PRA is to enable locals to create their own analysis and on its basis to plan and take action. It involves the project workers, who learn about the local customs, processes and about the village from the villagers. PRA aims for strengthening the ability of locals to plan, decide and to take actions to improve their situation on their own.
Methodology of a PRA is about learning about rural life and the environment from the local community. Researchers and field workers should act like facilitators and help the community to create their own analysis, plans and to take according actions. The principle it’s based on is, that the local people are capable of investigating, analysing and planning actions. PRA’s basic principal is learning from rural