Disaster Recovery Assessment 20-25 oct 2009- village2

we completed the assessment by 1:00 and started journey to go to next vilalge..

we have to drive for 45 min or so and then 45-60 min by boat to reach to next village....Chrang khrom..

we reached to the village and it was already 3:00 pm... the communication was so terrible from our side that villager thought we are coming at 10:00 am.... so they were waiting from 10:00.. my GOD!!!!!! i was ashamed ....

the only place where we can sit and talk was the patch of broken road.. only 50-70 mt. long....

there were hundreds of villagers came to see us... it was so good to see many people but difficult to handle in FGD [focus group discussion].

infect all our team members felt the same... we digged more and found that villagers have had expectation that we may distribute some material or so.. thats why every one came ... and they also felt obligation to answer our question to make sure they are present.....

we all decided in evening that from next village we will make sure that

1. our exact time of arrival

2. max. gropu of 40-50 ppl from village

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there was a good FGD experience for this village too..

unfortunately females were more compared to males in group so it was no gender balanced group ......

if it was south asian country we have to ensure more women are part of FGD while here it is other way round..

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