Manuals for Qualitative Research

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Manuals for Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Research for Improved Health
  Programs A Guide to Manuals for Qualitative and
  Participatory Research on Child Health,
  Nutrition, and Reproductive Health
• Many manuals are mixed Qualitative research
  and use of results in program implementation

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How the project developed

• Academy for Education Development SARA Project
• Difficulty in connecting qualitative researchers
  in Africa to available resources for qualitative
  research
• Long process Planned 2 months, has taken almost
  2 years

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Some lessons learned

• Most projects are under-manualed Do not take
  advantage of the existing manuals
• Some of the best manuals are almost unknown
• Library of manuals should be developed as a
  learning resource for field staff, rather than
  only obtaining manuals for specific studies
• Many manuals cost between 5 and 10 or can be
  downloaded for free

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Top web-site

• http//www.unu.edu/unupress/food
• /foodnutrition.html
• 10 qualitative manuals dozens of nutrition
  documents can be downloaded

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Recommendations

• Very dangerous to make recommendations!
• Criteria used Relevance to activities
  implemented in PVO Child Survival projects
• Suitable for use by field staff without formal
  social science training
• 15 manuals recommended I would get all 15 even
  if you arent implementing all interventions
• 7 of the 15 free from website or e-mail

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Recommended manuals

• Ch 1 Rapid Assessment Procedures for Nutrition
  and Primary Health Care Anthropological
  Approaches to Improving Programme Effectiveness
  E/F/S Web
• Ch 2 A Manual for the Use of Focus Groups E/F
  Web

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Some recommended manuals

• Ch 5 Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) and
  Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) A Manual for
  CRS Field Workers and Partners
• Ch 6 The REFLECT Mother Manual A New Approach
  to Adult Literacy
• Ch 8 Pneumonia Care Assessment Toolbox E-mail

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More recommended manuals

• Ch 9 The Malaria Manual
• Ch 9 Partnerships for Change Communication
  Guidelines for Malaria Control
• Ch 9 Insecticide treated net programs A
  handbook for managers.
• Ch 10 Hygiene Evaluation Procedures E/F/S Web

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More recommended manuals

• Ch 11 Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP) to
  Improve the Household Management of Diarrhea
  Web
• Ch 11 PHAST Step-by-Step Guide A Participatory
  Approach for the Control of Diarrhoeal Disease

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More recommended manuals

• Ch 12 Designing by Dialogue E/F
• Ch 12 Community Assessment of Natural Food
  Sources of Vitamin A Web
• Ch 13Assessing Safe Motherhood in the Community
  A Guide to Formative Research
• Ch 13 Rapid Assessment Procedures (RAP)
  Ethnographic Methods to Investigate Womens
  Health Web