Participatory action research involving all stakeholders of the GHR programme—Community, CBOs, Partners, Consultants and Trocaire. The research questions focussed on assessing Awareness, Access and Action (AAA):
- Awareness level of citizen’s on three rights focussed by the programme
- Access of citizen to duty bearers for claiming rights
- Action taken on violation of right in past
- Likelihood of action in the near future to claim rights
Sampling: A multi-stage simple random sampling method to cover Ethnicity and access parameters. Atleast 10% of the project villages were covered to carry out the participatory exercises with women only groups and mixed groups separately.
Tools: The following Participatory research tools were used
1. Citizen’s awareness, access and action (AAA) was captured using three participatory learning and action (PLA) techniques including:
- Visual Apperception (Awareness)
- Chapati Diagrams (Access)
- Story Telling (Action)
The participant’s responses were captured in a reporting format prepared by the researchers. Key findings from the analysis were presented in tables and charts.
2. CBO capacity Tool to assess the CBO capacity index of the CBOs as agents of change derived from their performance on three dimensions—Gender and inclusiveness, Influence, and Management capacities. Scores were assigned by the partners, and an index was created for each partner on the reported scores on the three dimensions. An aggregate CBO capability index encompassing all the partners was also created. The results of the CBO capacity tool were presented for each partner as a triangular radar chart with each vertex representing one dimension.
3. Partner Capacity Tool identify the level of influence of the partners (base level, contributor level, Mobiliser level, Leader, Authority) through their overall impact score derived from three dimensions— Influence with government, Supporting citizen action, Gender equality. The tool was used in two stages.
In the first stage, partners did a self-assessment and reflected on the positioning of their organization with respect to the different levels. In the second stage, Trócaire had an in-depth and semi-structured interaction with partners and placed partners on five levels of performance under each dimension.
