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during village workshops: speaking local languages as far as possible and simplify
the questions to let all villagers understand; putting the emphasis on introduction
in the first community workshop for low participation; using PRA
tools in variety of ways after villagers are willing to ask, discuss and share information;
guiding the meeting in a positive direction to avoid a few people
dominate the meeting; every discussion, analysis should have results or conclusions
and should be recorded, feed backing to villagers next meeting so as
to correct timely, selecting appropriate meeting time and place, 1-2 hours is
suitable.
Experi<strong>en</strong>ces in semi-structured interviews in Dagan FLR demonstration
area showed as follows. (1) selecting team members, topic design and id<strong>en</strong>tifying
interview objects should be fully prepared before the interview. Team of
semi -structured interview included one translator because there was barrier for
FLR team to communicate with local resid<strong>en</strong>ts. (2) Interview time is critical
and should be fixed based on daily work and life of local laws , seasonal farming
activities, work habits, climate, local customs, etc. (3) Interviews
should be started from family structure (family member, name, age, educational
level, etc. ) , land ownership, crop cultivation, livestock breeding species
and the number. It could <strong>en</strong>able farmers to increase their self-confid<strong>en</strong>ce
on the one hand. On the other hand, it would help to obtain valuable information
from conversation to guide the sub topics. (4) FLR working team should
not give villagers hints or promises that they would get any b<strong>en</strong>efits in the future
in order to get reasonable and reliable answers. (5) Answers giv<strong>en</strong> by villagers
should not be exposed and kept private. (6) Taking notes should be a­
greed by interviewees and don't use tape recorders. ( 7 ) The interview time
should be kept in one hour, thank the respond<strong>en</strong>ts at the <strong>en</strong>d of the interview
and ask them if there is any question.
Matrix and ranking can fully reflect the participation of villagers, especially
community in rural area. Using symbols that villagers can understand to
express the cont<strong>en</strong>ts of matrix and ranking could motivate villagers' <strong>en</strong>thusiasm
and achieve the survey objective.
Moreover, FLR working team should pay att<strong>en</strong>tion to the role of governm<strong>en</strong>t
departm<strong>en</strong>ts and make full use of indig<strong>en</strong>ous knowledge, especially traditional
knowledge of farmers.