sentences:  This was followed by a rapid acceptance of usage of methods that involved rural people in examining their own problems, setting their own goals, and monitoring their own achievements.By the mid 1990s, the term RRA had been replaced by a number of other terms including "participatory rural appraisal" (PRA) and "participatory learning and action" (PLA).Robert Chambers acknowledged that the significant breakthroughs and innovations that informed the methodology came from community development practitioners in Africa, India and elsewhere.