A two-day PRA workshop was organized under the leadership of PG Department of Social Work and Sociology, Gems Arts and Science College, Ramapuram for first year MSW students. The PRA workshop was held at Vattavada, idukki at 01/02/2020. 16 students were participated in the program. The objectives of the workshop were to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of PRA and its importance, usage and application in community-need analysis process, to introduce the different tools used in PRA and to develop skills in conducting PRA exercise with communities. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. On the first day the students were divided into 4 groups namely Lilly, Rose, Jasmine and marigold. The resource person discussed the theoretical aspects of PRA with the group. He explained the definition and principles that form the basis of PRA, the principles i.e. participation, flexibility, teamwork, optimal ignorance and systematic approach. The second part of the discussion on the first day was on the tools of PRA namely social mapping, wealth ranking, transect walk, resource mapping, seasonality analysis, time line and trend analysis, Venn diagram, matrix scoring and skill mapping. Day one of the workshop was used to make the students familiar with the concepts of PRA and its usages. On the Second day the teams were given specific techniques to be implemented in PRA to find out the issues and understand the process of PRA by its application. The students were taken vattavada Village for the practical application. The trainees were given the responsibility to implement seasonality analysis and resource mapping, team lilly was given ven diagram and social mapping to implement, rose had to implement transect walk and Mission mark to implement wealth ranking and matrix ranking. The students after the hands on experience had an evaluation session where each team presented their leanings and challenges. The mistakes and shortcomings in conducting PRA were discussed by the resource person. Overall it was good learning experience for the students.