Introduction

• During the 1980s, PRA was firstly developed in India and

Kenya, mainly supported by NGOs operating at grass-root
level.
• PRA places emphasis on empowering local people to
assume an active role in analysing their own living
conditions, problems and potentials in order to seek for a
change of their situation.
• It also serves as important socio-economic indicators for
rural development.
• In PRA, a number of different tools are used to gather and
analyse information.
• Well-being ranking is an approach which is based on local
people’s perception of wealth, ranking and well-being in
relation to income and assets and their view socio-economic
disparities between households.
• The purpose of this method is to learn the meaning of wealth,
poverty and vulnerability in the view of the community
members, and to get their ideas on what indicators (beyond
cash income) define those who are most needy.
• It not only helps us identify the rich and poor families of the
village but also gives us an insight into what constitutes
wealth and what constitutes poverty as far as the people are
concerned.
• It requires team by identifying what criteria are commonly
used in the area to classify a household as being in one of
these categories.
Objectives
• To identify different socio-economic groups in the
community according to how they themselves perceive
their different levels of well being.
• Identify and classify HHs/groups based on relative well-
being in the areas of income, wealth, assets and status.
• Check whether programs are reaching the target groups.
• Explore issues relates to livelihood, vulnerability,
constraints to development as people see them, design
intervention strategies in line with people’s aspirations.
• Study inter-HH and inter-group socio-economic
disparities understand how local people viewthem.
• Understand people’s criteria and indicators for wealth,
the good life, wellbeing, development successes.