Preparing for our field work next week

Working breakfast during our meeting 
to finalize the survey

Most of this week and today has been spent preparing for our field visits next week. As of now the idea is to meet with officials from three departments that work in the area of forestry and meet with 12 groups in different villages. How much of this will convert into reality will only be known next week. The planning for this trip has been fairly fluid, in terms of dates, people going with us, the groups we are meeting etc etc. We have prepared our questionnaires and surveys and have gone through three rounds of reviews.








It is turning out to be more costly than we budgeted for and it will be interesting to know from the other MDP teams about their experiences.  We have discussed transport, stay, people accompanying us, dress codes in addition to of course the focus of our visit: the surveys. It seems like we are mostly ready (except for the final printing of the surveys in English and Vietnamese tomorrow, haha) and I am sure 6 am on Monday morning will be here before we know it. I don't know where the other MDP teams are in terms of their fieldwork, but if you do ever read this (and I may test you :p), I'd love to know - have you started? How has the experience been? Ecuador, Jamaica and Kenya, send us more updates!

Pre-work coffee and watermelon seeds

Tools of researchers :)

Some charts we prepared