GTZ Project Document No. 51 Report on Nahi Baseline Survey

Nahi Approach Road of Hope RRA Survey May 20011. Annexure 1.1 Topics for the Rapid AppraisalTopic compulsory for all the Households Farm Labour- House hold members (permanently working on the farm)- Labour hiring (source, wage rate, etc.)- Farm activities for which labour is hired- Labour shortage (season, how they solve it, etc.) Housing- Size of the house (number of rooms, stories, etc.)- Roofing (what materials)- House hold equipments Human Health- Health care (facilities available, medicines, treatments)- Local treatments Household Income- Sources (crops, livestock, forest, others)- RNR contribution to household income (increasing/decreasing) Tradable Goods- Types of goods (identify goods)- Goods going out (types, where, how, quantity)- Goods coming in (types, source, how, quantity) RNR Service- Contacts at present (for what, how frequent, and who visits you or EA)- Quality of service (reliable, readily available or not, what is good/bad?) Farmers Visions- Expectations (what they expect with the road)- Ideas ahead (plans for change in farm activities, housing, others, etc.)- Farmers expectation and participation in road maintenance Consumption pattern- Food (type)- Source (Farm, market, neighbours,) Fodder Collection- Do you collect fodder from the forest?- Which plants are mostly collected/quantity/when?- Which part of the year do you depend too much on the fodder resources from the forest? Forest activities- Timber (species available now)- Specie endangered (which, why, how)- What changes do you expect in forest due to roadTopics not compulsory for all the households Land prices- Present prices (dry land, wetland, others) New Settlements- Social background (from, how, when, why, etc.)- Settlement composition (who all, dialects spoken, relationships, etc.) As an important access to Thimphu in the past- Route to Thimphu in the past (who uses it, for what, time taken, frequency of use, etc.)- Present use of the Route (who, for what, how frequently)- Difference (past and present)- Farmers outlook (with the motorable road to Nahi what could b the use of the old route)ix