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in OperationsStep 3: Methods ofenquiryProtection risks faced by groups of women, girls, boys, andmen of different ages and backgrounds can be complexand are often not very visible. Using the appropriate method ofenquiry in a given situation is therefore crucial to identifyingand understanding the underlying protection risks and thepower different groups exercise over each other, includingbetween women and men, which can lead to protection risks.Enquiry for participatory assessment involves a process oflistening, information gathering, and interactive analysis.Three methods of information gathering and analysis areoutlined below: 16• <strong>Participatory</strong> observation and spot checks;• Semi-structured discussions (or household discussions);• Focus group discussions.Different methods are appropriate in different contexts. Focusgroups are useful to explore group responses to a topic ofcommon concern but inappropriate for sensitive topics such aspersonal accounts of SGBV. 17 Semi-structured discussions, ordiscussions at an individual or household level, are appropriatefor obtaining more personal, detailed information andanalysing problems that will not easily emerge in a groupdiscussion; participatory observation and spot checks willprovide complementary information to more in-depth3
in Operations3discussions and help visualize particular problems, e.g. to dowith food distributions. If, during participatory observation,semi-structured, or focus group discussions with people ofconcern, sensitive issues emerge, or if team members feel thatthey need to find out more information about certainindividual situations, they should discuss those subjectsseparately in a one-to-one setting with those individualsafterwards.Multifunctional teams should draw up beforehand a scheduleoutlining which method they will employ as well as who willdiscuss with which subgroup of people of concern and whichtheme (see Annex 7 for an example). The number of meetingswill vary depending on the method used and the time andnumber of team members available. Generally, offices shouldplan participatory assessment over a two to three week period.Focus group discussions should involve no more than 10people at a time per discussion. When semi-structureddiscussions are held, one to five people should be involved(see below).Using different methods at different times will allow teams toobtain various perspectives on the protection risks, to crosschecktheir understanding of them and to gather complementaryinformation. For example, they might organize a focus groupto get women’s perspectives on a specific protection risk, thentalk to one or two women individually later to obtain moredetails, and then walk through the camp or urban area stoppinghere and there to ask a few questions to check how widespreadthe problem is. Comparing results from individuals and groupswho represent the diversity of the community, using differentmethods (‘triangulation’), is an important means of checkingthe reliability of the information gathered during theassessment 18 and of validating the team’s understanding of theproblem.
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