Table 1.

Areas of enquiry for immersions

Economic and financial activities (gender disaggregated)Governance and structures (gender disaggregated)
  • Cash income sources

  • Off-farm activities

  • Changes in wage rates

  • Savings, money, assets

  • Access to and availability of loans, micro-credit

  • Level of indebtedness

  • Coping mechanisms in difficult times

  • Expenditures

  • Skills, productive use of trained knowledge/skills

  • Changes in ownership of land and property

  • Access to labour works (roads, bridge construction or similar)

  • Leadership structures – traditional, government, formal, informal, how they are selected, male/female

  • Involvement and participation in community activities

  • Involvement in public consultation (hearings and audits)

  • Participation of women and other DAGs in community activities including user committees

  • How governance processes have evolved and changed over time

  • Local politics and structures

Intra household decision making (gender disaggregated)Access to public resources (gender disaggregated)Quality of life (gender disaggregated)
  • How resources are pooled, shared and distributed

  • How decisions are made or taken

  • Changes in gender roles with reference to different age groups in the family

  • Women's self-esteem

  • Awareness of government policies

  • Extent to which DAGs and women are able to raise their concerns in community meetings

  • Who decides on resource allocations

  • Changes in traditional powers

  • Perception of well-being, poverty

  • Consumption pattern, items (use and control by different family members)

  • Aspirations

  • Existing services available and usage

  • Access to transport

  • Mobility patterns (i.e. including walking journeys)

  • Use of technology (including mobile phones)

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