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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