Research Stages

Fieldwork with pastoralists

Induction (1 month/site)
- Establish field headquarters
- Register with local governor's office
- Meet informally with officials, livestock producers, and others to establish an understanding of the political ecological context of the region
- Visit herder households to present the research and make preliminary sampling decisions (for a purposive cluster sample)
- Recruit members of approximately 10 households (or 3-5 xot ails) to participate in the study
Semi-structured interviews (1 month/site)
- Hold semi-structured interviews with participating herders
- Prepare summaries of interviews
Filmed "in situ" interviews on pastoral activities (field recordings)
- Conduct videorecorded interviews with pastoralists as they perform everyday resource-related tasks
- Annotate, catalogue, and where appropriate translate field recordings
- Prepare extracts for discussion
- Review video extracts with herders
Forum (conference on pastoralism and development, with the theme of "adaptation")
- Prepare topics and background documents for discussion
- Prepare and test technical elements
- Invite participants and guest contributors
- Hold the forum
- Prepare and publish proceedings and synthesis

Interviews with non-pastoralists (development project workers, government officials, merchants, etc.)
Analysis and reporting