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active use of focus group discussions it helped us to gain insights into how localpeople see and express their general livelihood situation, their general attitudes,values and norms in relation to forest resource management use, what kind of ideasand suggestions they would have for possible REDD schemes in their localcommunity, how they evaluate local governance and power structures, local informaland formal tenure rights, and equally important, how they interact and respond to oneanother.To be able to capture this information we emphasized when preparing for the focusgroups that we were interested in participants within different age groups, ethnicity,status and geographical locations to be able to best as possible reflect all the differentsegments within the population of a village. Additionally we asked for two groups ineach village, one with men and one with women, ten in each. This division we saw asessential in allowing everyone to take part in a discussion, where everyone could havean opinion regardless of gender considerations. In combination, all this gave us usefulinformation on the local context for each village and study area as a whole whichfurther could be used when evaluating how effective/efficient REDD will be beforeconcluding on what the introduction of REDD will mean to these communities.3.3.5 Survey research, site selection and samplingWe used a questionnaire as an instrumental part of our PRA to be able to map outdifferent livelihood activities and strategies of households as well as their attitudestowards forest management and REDD. They were conducted as structured interviewswhere we located and talked with each respondent, either with the help of interpretersor assistants. Included in the questionnaire were questions on resource use, incomeand constraints, property rights, use rights and forest management, as well asquestions on perceptions, attitudes and norms concerning resource conservation andthe newly started REDD pilot project in their village. This questionnaire was coupledwith both the focus group discussions and the key resource person interview in eachvillage. By using a questionnaire we were then able to reach out to a larger number ofhouseholds in a more time efficient manner and gave us quantifiable answers fromwhich we would get a broader picture of the local situation.62