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Project stages
The general research schema can be seen as a seven-stage progression
from common problem definition, to local studies by implementing
agencies (IAs), back to a linked set of outputs.
- Stage 1: Project scope and initial preparations
- Stage 2: Country, site, and implementing agency selection
- Stage 3: First international workshop
- Stage 4: Field and policy research
- Stage 5: Backcasting and production of draft outputs
- Stage 6: Second international workshop
- Stage 7: Dissemination of outputs and participatory evaluation of sustainable livelihood outcomes
Like the concepts, the overall design of the project is suggestive,
and any agency will want to mold it to its own specific concerns.
Any project design and management structure has to ensure quality
and timeliness of outputs, but the design discussed here focuses
on certain key concerns arising from the specific nature of this
project. These are:
- ensuring that the project proceeds with sufficient commonality
of purpose and understanding of key concepts that meaningful dialogs
between country teams can inform the final outputs;
- ensuring consistency and synergy between the country field
studies and the policy recommendations;
- ensuring the genuinely participatory nature of the project;
- balancing the participatory nature of the project, implying
a certain flexibility in the timing of fieldwork, with the need
to coordinate activities to focus on certain key integrating workshops.
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