How to Build Trust With Participants

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Not talking too much. Noticing things, asking questions about things that you see. That in rural areas can be very, very significant source of understanding. And it's this curiosity that you mentioned, showing an interest and then relating what comes out. Did you experience distrust from your participants sometimes or confusion about why you were asking them so many private questions? Well, no, not much. If you start any inquiry by explaining all that and why you're doing it and what you're going to get out of it,. It helps a great deal. Otherwise people, and I've had this, are suspicious. He's doing it because he's doing a PhD. He's not really interested.

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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under what conditions should qualitative surveys be preferred over quantitative and vice versa? What is participatory mapping? How has the field of development changed over the last few decades? Why do people get taller when sanitation improves?

Robert Chambers is a British academic and development practitioner. He spent his academic career at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies. He has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute, and marginalized at the center of the processes of development policy since the 1980s. Learn more about him here.

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