The Role of RRA in the Development of Rural Appraisals

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I know you've had really a long history in development. It began in Kenya where I was a member of what was then called Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service, which was the old colonial service. And I went on working in Kenya through independence and working at the Kenya Institute of Administration training Kenyans to take over the administration. That's how I got into it. So RRA was putting together and sharing the various methods that we were using. We once sensed that we were doing something sensible. You've got idea when people who are heretics in their own organizations all meet together and find that there are heretic in other organizations, which have exactly the same problems. It becomes

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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under what conditions should qualitative surveys be preferred over quantitative and vice versa? What is participatory mapping? How has the field of development changed over the last few decades? Why do people get taller when sanitation improves?

Robert Chambers is a British academic and development practitioner. He spent his academic career at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies. He has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute, and marginalized at the center of the processes of development policy since the 1980s. Learn more about him here.

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