Sandra, providing a snapshot of what these participatory activities looked like at the 'front line', talks about differences in approaches to working with sub-groups of the community groups this research project was aiming to engage with e.g. women in these indigenous communities. Are there particular sub-groups of the populations you are interested in working with that you think are less likely to engage in your work? How might you ensure that these sub-groups are represented in your work? What approaches might make your research work more accessible and appealing to these groups?
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Prompt 3 is now up in the forum!
In my photovoice project in rural Ethiopia, women are far less likely to engage due to the patriarchal culture. In order to mitigate this and encourage women to participate we are: 1) The lead researcher in Ethiopia in the project is a woman - she has led similar projects in Ethiopia before so has good experience to draw on to engage women; 2) we are aiming for participation ratio of 70% female to 30% male and 3) ensuring gender separated photo-training and discussion groups and 4) our research assistant grew up in the community so there will be a level of trust there that there wouldn't be without an insider.
Wow! this is a really big question - and perhaps comes back to the Prompt 2 where it's hard to generalise? I was interested to know if they knew in advance from, for example, previous research that some parts of the community would be hard to engage - or if this was something they had to adapt to on the spot?