We are encouraging local people to take the lead in protecting the biodiversity of thier forests. I would like to gradually evaluate without any bias if our action have an impact on the ground
Well, you cannot ask directly. I just recently have read about your project in - you will not believe - Lithuanian language! So, it must be known also in other places? Then - do you have a sociologist in your team? If not, best idea perhaps is to have one (I do not mean employing, you may cooperate). Not only advice, but also participation of sociologist will save you time and efforts, you will not have to correct mistakes after questioning.
Daniel
Weyerhaeuser, Wilkes and Kahrl did something on this in 2005 (in the Journal Agricultural Systems):
Local impacts and responses to regional forest conservation and rehabilitation programs in Chinas northwest Yunnan province
Go see: http://worldagroforestry.org/sea/Publications/files/journal/JA0210-05.pdf
Also Bennet and Dearden in 2014 (in Marine Policy)
Why local people do not support conservation: Community perceptions of marine protected area livelihood impacts, governance and management in Thailand
Go see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X13001711
Dear Daniel,
In my own opinion, your study's design has an evaluative approach - project or program evaluation. In this sense, you are trying to carry out a kind of formative and summative evaluation where you evaluate your participants when the project is on - going and after completion. So, I advice that you look at the general purpose and specific objectives for which you have set out your study. You may then adopt a questionnaire that goes in line with your set objectives. The questionnaire may be such that addresses some descriptive analysis like percentage distribution, this will help you to know how well you are moving by asking them simple questions based on your set objectives . Then you can use a simple statistical technique like correlated t-test to know the effectiveness of your intervention between BEFORE (collection of baseline information) and AFTER you have exposed them to various ways to protect bio-diversity of their forests. I believe this will help you a great deal.
Thank you.
I would like to thanks all of you for your contribution.I went out of network for a quite of time. That is why I did not react earlier
Mr. Linas, for now we don't have a sociologist in our team, so I will found a way to cop with one as you said
Mr. James, the papers look good and can really help.
Mr.Taiwo, what you said is true. However we are already carried activities in communities for about 3 years. I was applying a questionnaire to the community every six month to appreciate the impact of our action on the ground. But the results from the questionnaire look weak. I afraid to be wrong since humans take time to change their attitudes. I wanted to know if there is a specific questionnaire for such of study because we really want to know if it is interesting to continue or if we need to change the strategy.
Once again thanks
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