approaches followed & lessons learned- group feedback - chelanko keble
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Approaches followed & lessons learned- Group Feedback - Chelanko Keble. SLATE Training for Africa RISING / NBDC Addis Ababa / Jeldu . 1 - 5 April 2013. Approaches followed to Identify Livelihoods Asset Indicators. Introduction with the farmers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Approaches followed & lessons learned- Group Feedback -Chelanko
Keble
SLATE Training for Africa RISING / NBDCAddis Ababa / Jeldu. 1 - 5 April 2013
Approaches followed to Identify Livelihoods Asset Indicators
Introduction with the farmers Briefing - 14 men and 6 women farmers, why we were there
including the details of the five livelihood capital assets Gave them the chance to reflect back their views/understanding Group formed (men and women ) using two facilitators Explanation about each livelihood capital assets continued to
create good understanding among the farmer group
Approaches… The indicators were listed by the farmers through interactive
discussion Back from the field, the group sat together, discussed,
analysed and combined the indicators from the groups. Discussion of the group during rewriting helps to understood the indicators
Data entered and then HH Livelihood indicators produced/printed for the household interview exercise
Strategy for Conducting HH interview
We discussed among ourselves and briefed the local facilitators how to forward the questions to respondent to get reliable weighting/scoring in relation to the relevance and contribution of each asset
We tried to pretest (demonstrate) how to handle the activity with some interviewers
Interview continued through systematic explanation and encouragement of the respondent to well understood how to rate each indicator
Data Entry and Cleaning efforts We jointly start data entry to learn from each other especially how
to work well with the tool We shared the questionnaire among ourselves, hence everyone
got the chance to work on it As there was no general pretest exercise, some of the
unclear/misunderstood were noted from the few questionnaires entry
We brought forward some of the issues for discussion while we were heading to the next day interview exercise
Avoiding irregularities/misunderstanding were possible
Observations Adequate time is significant for indicator development (typing
and printing) Pretesting helps the enumerator reach common understanding
and internalize the indicators and how to forward questions to the respondents
Based on the level of farmers understanding the HH interview demands 35-60 minutes but the indicator development could aspires about 2 hour
For indicator identification involving knowledgeable farmers seems very important to tap their experiences
Data cleaning is important before data entry.
Desirable points Good if we could clearly identify the main livelihood assets of
specific kebel/group We need to learn how to prepare a report after the LA is prepared Good if we know what software is ideal to analyse the data further Good to know how to identify issues that need intervention from
the LA analysis Good to have descriptive output by the tool itself The result of benchmarking analysis: bottom-average- top-…
should be clearly understood by all LH spider web dimension where deficient, adequate and surplus
of indicators value laid should be known for quick understanding and action.
Suggestion/question for discussion Selection criteria for HH interview should be consistent throughout
(gender representation and typology) could be important component Is it possible to focus on few villages with in a Keble so that census
targeting the typology can be conducted for random sampling of HH respondents?
Is that possible to change the incentive to in kind or material than the monetary one? For the actual sites where the intervention is going to be done, it is not fair to incentivize farmers in monetary bases for their contribution as the inputs/actual work/ would follow the exercise. However, for our exercise the incentive was fair to compensate for their time
For the actual LA work for Africa RISING sites, adequate time is needed for mobilization and participant identification…
It is good to Learn how to merge data entered on different computer
Challenges Lack of uniformity in forwarding questions to the respondent
(language and other…) barrier Farmers temptation by the incentive Suspicion of farmers on reporting their resource endowment Lack of adequate time for pretesting and reaching common
understanding among the trainees Repeated data gathering from a HH Gender representation in the HH??
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