PRIA International Academy's online self-learning courses are an opportunity for learners to engage in self-paced learning through engaging, creative and informative pedagogies. These online courses have been designed keeping the learners’ needs at the centre, ensuring that the learning outcomes align with the contemporary requirements of the development and non-profit sectors. Each of these courses engage learners for a maximum duration of 10 hours, ensuring that they can be completed alongside their primary responsibilities.
Since 2005, a total of 6,563 people worldwide have enrolled in PIA’s online self-learning courses.
Participatory Research - A journey beyond conventional Research
A global introduction to Participatory Research, exploring its principles, tools, and community-driven approach to knowledge and social change.
Participatory Research (PR) emerged globally as a response to the limitations of conventional, top–down research that often excluded the voices of communities and marginalised groups. Across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Indigenous societ
Facilitating Learning: An Introduction to Participatory Training Methodology
A course that helps you learn how to plan and facilitate interactive trainings using participatory and experience-based methods.
This foundational course offers an introduction to participatory training—a methodology rooted in adult learning principles that values experience-sharing, active engagement, and collective reflection. While it does not aim to create master
Gender Realities - Identities, Inclusion and Development
A course that explains how gender shapes power, inequality, and everyday life and how we can work toward more inclusive, gender-just societies.
Gender is among the most powerful forces that shape individual experiences, identities, and social behaviours in everyday life. Understanding gender as a social construction necessarily underpins any meaningful engagement with questions of equity,
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Beginner’s Guide to Social Accountability and Participation
An introduction to social accountability that explores how citizen participation strengthens transparency, service delivery, and democratic governance.
Governance is realised by citizens through their access to services such as health, education, sanitation, identification documents, transportation, and more. The effectiveness and relevance of these services determine the quality of governance sy
Introduction to Sport for Development
Discover how sport can be used as a powerful tool for social change.
Sport has enjoyed universal appeal for much of human history and its importance to society continues to be the object of contemporary research, literature and media. In recent times, there has been an increased interes
Measuring Development: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment
Learn to assess the relevance, effectiveness, and sustainability of development programmes.
How can we measure development? In recent years, concerns about effective management and results-oriented approaches to development projects and programmes have gained momentum. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), along with
Understanding Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI): Decentralisation, Democracy and Local Governance
A beginner-friendly course on how Panchayati Raj empowers local governments and strengthens grassroots democracy in India.
Panchayats are the basis of grassroots democracy in India. As constitutionally recognised local governments, they stand at the centre of planning, implementation, and monitoring development at the village, block, and d
Hear From Our Participants
For me, doing the OD Facilitation course has been an incredible experience. I now have a better understanding of the procedures and systems needed for an organization to be self-sufficient. I've gained a lot of skills from the course, such as active listening and understanding the appropriate questions to ask the organization to better understand its procedures and systems, as well as how to collect data using a variety of systems.
