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.
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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
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 d
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
विकास के लिए खेल का परिचय
खेल के माध्यम से सामाजिक विकास
खेल मानव इतिहास के अधिकांश समय से लोगों के बीच विस्तृत रूप से लोकप्रिय रहा है, और सम
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
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
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 Developm
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 engagem
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FAQs
PRIA’s online self-learning courses are open to students, development professionals, CSR personnel, policymakers, government and public officials, researchers, and anyone interested in participatory methodologies or whose learning needs and outcomes align with the contemporary requirements of the development and non-profit sectors.
The courses cover a wide range of development-focused themes, including participatory training, social accountability, working with Panchayats, gender and development, governance, sport for development, and monitoring and evaluation, among others.
Yes, learners can progress through the courses at their own pace within the given course duration, which is usually 2 weeks.
Most courses available on the platform can be completed within approximately 10-12 hours of learning time.
Yes, learners receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.
The courses are designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners. Participants can enrol in courses based on their personal learning needs and requirements, and no specific prerequisites are required.
After registering and enrolling, participants receive login details for the learning platform. All course materials are then accessible online through PRIA Academy’s learning platform.
For some courses, participants will have the opportunity to interact with instructors and fellow learners directly on the Moodle platform. Participants are also welcome to write to us at pia@pria.org for any queries.
You can register and make payments directly through the PRIA Academy website by selecting your chosen course.
Each course is designed to strengthen skills relevant to careers in development, CSR, governance, training, research, and community-based programmes.