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Participatory assessment of community wellbeing
by aaditeshwar on Oct 04, 2007 Category: Appropriate Technology Tags: development audit assessment participatory
This is a brilliant way for participatory assessment of community wellbeing! Pictorial surveys are designed that even illiterate people can fill out, and used to assess the development status of villages/blocks/districts on sectors such as livelihood, water and sanitation, education and literacy, etc. The water survey form is available online: http://www.indiatogether.org/2007/sep/pov-paheli2.pdf
This is similar to the Internal Learning System designed by Prof. Helzi Noponen, where similar pictorial surveys are used by women in rural areas to maintain a daily diary about their family on things such as loan borrowings, child falling sick, grocery purchase, etc. Later, volunteers from NGOs such as Sewa and Pradan sit together with the women and help them analyze their diaries to point out things the women are doing wrong. Simultaneously, it also helps collect data on the lifestyle of people, which can hopefully help in better policy formulation.
http://www.enterprise-impact.org.uk/pdf/Noponen.pdf
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I seriously doubt that illiterate people can fill the water survey form. Yes, they have pictures as the options, but how will they know what do to with the pictures? or precisely, what is the question that is being asked? I still think you need someone to explain every question to the villager, before they can appropriately select the right pictorial answer (otherwise, they might just select the most beautiful picture), and if someone is already spending time explaining the questions, they might as well fill up the answer on the illiterate person's behalf.
I can imagine these surveys can be more useful than text surveys if the survey is being conducted multiple times with the same (and relatively small) set of questions (such as a periodic health/income survey), so that these people eventually get familiar with the questions.
By the way, I had heard a talk from Tapan Parikh (http://ngopost.org/story.php?title=Tapan_parikh_MIT_Technology_Reviews_T... ) at UCSD, and he was using similar pictorial questionnaires/forms along with mobile phones in his projects.
Well, there can surely be other models where instructions are given to groups of women rather than individually. Or, better still, the group members can later go on to form their own groups and collectively instruct more women on what the questions mean.
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