PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 26 Twenty-one tips for short PRA workshops with lots of people

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 26 Twenty-one tips for short PRA workshops with lots of people Robert Chambers Introduction Choosing a room One sort of PRA workshop can be for quite A large room with plenty of space (but not so large numbers of people for a short time, such big that a microphone is needed), and with lots as a long afternoon, or one or two days. This of walls that can be used for sticking up can make sense: flipchart sheets. · to familiarise officials, academics, people Preparing the room trapped in universities, cities and training centres etc., with some of the elements and Set it up the night before, or well in advance. methods of PRA; If you rearrange seating, plaster the place with · to enable a few people who already have notices asking janitors to please NOT put the the orientation to go off and get on with it; chairs back in line. and, Arrange seating informally · to bring together people who are interested in PRA so that they meet one another, and For large numbers, chairs without tables are perhaps follow up together. often best, in a muddled-up U shape. Or lots ...