Comparer des méthodes

	Rapid Ethnographic Assessment	Participatory Rural Appraisal
Domaine	Anthropology	Anthropology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2001	1994
Auteur d'origine	James Beebe (building on rapid rural appraisal traditions)	Robert Chambers and collaborators
Type	Team-based, time-bounded qualitative inquiry	Family of participatory field appraisal and planning methods
Source fondatrice	Beebe, J. (2001). Rapid Assessment Process: An Introduction. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. ISBN: 9780759100114	Chambers, R. (1994). The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal. World Development, 22(7), 953–969.
Alias	Rapid Assessment Process, REA, Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP), Rapid Ethnographic Procedures	PRA, Participatory Learning and Action, Participatory Rural Appraisal Methods, PLA
Apparentées	2	2
Résumé	Rapid ethnographic assessment — also called the Rapid Assessment Process — is intensive, team-based qualitative inquiry that uses triangulation, iterative data analysis, and additional rounds of data collection to quickly develop a preliminary understanding of a situation from the insiders' point of view. Formalized by James Beebe, it compresses the logic of long-term ethnography into days or weeks for applied settings where decisions cannot wait for a year of fieldwork.	Participatory rural appraisal is a growing family of approaches and methods that enable local people to share, enhance, and analyze their own knowledge of their lives and conditions, and to plan and act on it. Associated above all with Robert Chambers, PRA reverses the conventional research relationship: outside facilitators hand over the stick, and community members themselves do the mapping, ranking, diagramming, and analysis that drive planning and action.