14 PGDRDM – Field attachment

06 December 2017 – 12 January 2018

Field Checklist
1. Google Map
2. Village Map, Route Map to the Village
3. History of the Village
4. Review of secondary data
5. Understanding of the Village with LEAP Tools
6. Geography of the Village (Natural Resources, Proximity to a city/town, Map of the village)
a. Resource Map
b. Environment and Ecological Setting, Ownership, access and distribution of resources
in the village and risks of the village
c. No. of acres of land present in the village, by use of the land present.
d. Water sources in the village, and their maintenance
e. Common lands or properties, and their management
f. Forest lands, products obtained from forest
g. Livestock mapping: Animal wealth in the village and nearby lands
h. How are these resources distributed
i. Rules governing the use of these resources
j. Efforts made to improve the stock of resources in the village
k. Factors hindering proper use of the resources
7. Demographic Details
a. Social Map
b. Population of the village
c. Languages being spoken
d. Literacy Rate ( a comparative figure amongst communities could also lead to an
interesting finding)
e. Composition of the population (Caste Distribution, No. of different Communities, sex
ratio, etc.)
f. Religions being practiced. (Proportion of the population)
g. Employment Avenues (Wage Laborers, Farmers (own or leased (which crop)),
artisans etc.)
h. Income/ Expenditure analysis
i. Types of houses (Kutcha, Pukka, semi pukka)
j. Number of families which are extremely poor (Poorest of poor)
k. Number of families which are vulnerable (Old age headed household, widow headed
household)
l. No. of families which have got differently abled members and are hence
marginalized.
m. Village Economy, Market and Trade, Traded in & Traded Out
n. Village dynamics:
i. Inter-caste and inter-class relationships
ii. Rules and Regulations in the village
iii. Social and cultural aspects – different social groups, social issues
iv. Political aspects
v. Major groups present in the village
vi. Conflicts in the recent past and conflict resolution mechanisms present
vii. Example activities where mutual support was exhibited in the recent past
viii. Whom does the community approach for help and advice? How many such
persons exist in the village and nearby vicinity?

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 ix. Who take up the causes of the community? Who lead the community in
discussions with outsiders?
8. Livelihoods
a. Livelihood mapping
b. Types of livelihoods pursued – farm (including agriculture, horticulture, fisheries,
forestry, NTFP etc.,), off-farm, non-farm (as percentage of population)
c. Proportion of farmers working on their own lands, leased lands. What are the terms
and conditions of profit sharing in the terms of leased lands
d. Survival strategies, coping mechanisms
i. What were the major crises faced by the people in the village in the past?
ii. How did they overcome these crises?
e. Predominant livelihood options for different communities in the village
f. Number of employment days
g. Seasonality of crops/ crop calendar
h. Presence of a market/shandy/haats in the vicinity of the village
i. Supply chain of the produce(s) , different stakeholders involved in the supply chain
(farmers, agents, middlemen, traders)
j. Selling mechanism of the produce(s) – individual/collectivization
k. PACS, Co-operative, APMC – availability, role in buying & selling the produce
l. Income/ Expenditure details
m. Seasonality mapping
n. Skill Mapping
o. Enterprise Mapping
p. Migration analysis: Migration patterns and flow of remittances
i. Who migrates?
ii. Places to which migrated
iii. Type and duration of migration
iv. Work at the place of migration
v. How do they send remittances?
q. Gender roles in employment
r. Underemployment (vis. a vis. the education status, willingness to work?)
s. Description of six important but diverse livelihoods from the stage of initiating
production till the produce/commodity/service is marketed or consumed – local
value chain analysis
9. Institutions & Government on Ground
a. Institutional Mapping and analysis
b. Public, Formal, and Informal Institutions; their services, accessibility and use;
Functioning of these Institutions like Panchayat, Bank, PDS, PACS, co-operative,
temple, chits, NGO etc.
c. Social Inclusion and Social Mobilization into community institutions of Poor
d. Functioning People’s Organisations
i. List Organizations like SHGs, Youth Groups, Associations, Cooperatives, and
Caste Groups. Political Parties, Unions etc.
ii. Details about organizations like formation, membership (numbers, gender,
break-up), savings, funds, source of funds, management, leadership etc.,
development and economic activities undertaken by them
iii. Major perceived benefits in economic as well as social front
e. Panchayat
i. Formal/Informal Leaders, including Panchayat Representatives, in the village
ii. To which community they belong to?

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 iii. Why were they chosen as leaders?
iv. What did you like about these leaders?
v. The role/ assessment of the Panchayat from the villagers’ perspective in
development (Positive, Negative, Indifferent)
vi. The role of women in panchayat ( active leaders/participants; indifferent to
the functioning of the panchayat)
vii. Influence of the husband in case of a woman being the sarpanch
viii. Source of funds to Gram Panchayat
ix. Role of finance commission
x. Projects taken up by Panchayat (MNREGA , School etc.)
xi. Conflict Resolution (in terms of BPL cards, PDS etc.)
xii. Convergence activities
f. Education
i. Education Funnel
ii. Education Mapping and analysis
iii. Educational facilities used/accessed by the villagers (inside & outside the
village)
iv. Presence of a primary school/ Anganwadi centre in a village (or in proximity
of)
v. Views of the principal, teachers
vi. Views of the students
vii. Class size, Gender Ratio, teacher-student ratio, Aberrations (Multiple classes
being run out of a single room etc.)
viii. Absence rates
ix. Dropout rates and its reason
x. Presence and Impact of convergence schemes run through the schools (Mid
day meal schemes, School Uniform/ cycle distribution)
xi. Aspiration of children with regards to education
xii. Education level of adults
xiii. Persons taking up (or having taken up) vocational education
g. Health
i. Disease analysis
ii. Health condition of the villagers (Any person with chronic diseases,
nutritional status of children,
iii. Any infant or maternal mortality in recent past and its causes.
iv. Details of disabled in the village.
v. Places from which the people seek remedy (PHC, Local doctor, Home
remedies, spiritual healing etc) preference of persons to access these health
facilities.)
vi. Proximity of the health facilities/ medicine shops/ PHCs
vii. The experiences of people visiting PHC (doctors/ nurses being present, PHC
being closed etc.)
viii. Experiences of the doctors/nurses and/or any other person from which
people seek remedy.
ix. The trust in traditional medicines vis. a vis. allopathic drugs.
x. Proportion of income being spent on health issues.
xi. Issues related to sanitation, clean water etc.
h. Credit Sources/ Insurance
i. Credit mapping

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 ii. Financial services and institutions (banks, moneylenders, MFI’s) present in
the area and their relative influence
iii. Where do people save?
iv. From where do people obtain loans? What are the terms of these loans?
v. What do people do at times of financial emergencies?
vi. What happens when they are unable to repay?
vii. Insurance services?
viii. The preferred source of credit of people and the reason behind it.
ix. Rates of interest being charged by the moneylender/MFI
i. Promoters (Development organisations/NGOs)/ Stakeholders
i. Mandate of the organisation
ii. The time since they have been working
iii. The success rate from the organisation’s perspective
iv. Challenges faced
v. Development organisations and programs in the village
vi. Services of technical agencies accessed by the villagers
vii. Development aspirations of the people
viii. In their view, what is development? What do they want for development to
happen?
ix. What efforts have they made to make development happen?
x. Role of youth groups (if present) in the development
xi. Women groups and their role in development
xii. Any development program that has failed in the village, along with reasons
attributed for its failure
xiii. What development programs are catering to the interests of these
stakeholders?
xiv. How are the development programs trying to manage the negative stakes of
these stakeholders?
j. Study of poor and vulnerable groups in the village
i. Poor in the village
ii. Non-poor, Not-so-poor, Poor and Poorest of the Poor – percentages,
description
iii. Whom do the people consider poor? Why?
iv. Family Income and expenditure
v. How many poor exist in the village?
vi. How is poverty experienced by these groups? Poverty Cycles & Poverty
Web?
vii. What efforts have been made in the past by these groups to come out of
poverty?
viii. Who are Poorest of the Poor? How did/do you identify them?
ix. Vulnerability analysis
x. Vulnerable groups in the village
xi. Who are they?
xii. What kind of vulnerabilities are they facing?
xiii. What kind of support are they getting?
xiv. Status of Old people, Marginalized people etc.
k. Entitlements:
i. Impact of NREGA on migration, daily wage, if any.
ii. Access to those entitlements (esp. by the poor). People eligible but still left
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 iii. Entitlements being offered in the village (NREGA, pension, IAY etc.)
10. Infrastructure
a. Connectivity with roads
b. Status of PHC, School etc.
c. Electricity
d. Water supply
e. Sanitation, Swach Bharat Mission
f. Community infrastructure like meeting halls, play grounds, library, etc.
g. Role of different stakeholders in maintenance of infrastructure
11. Animators & Facilitators:
a. Bookkeepers and Master Bookkeeper
b. PRPs/Community Coordinators/Mobilisers/Activists
c. CRPs – Roles, functions, selection procedure, training, tenure, remuneration,
experience with working with community, are they replaceable?, monitoring,
supervision
d. Project staff – role, function, selection, capacity building, remuneration
e. Communitization – process of communitization, levels of communitization, time
involved in the process
12. Household analysis/Individual Profiling (from 10 different households)
13. Case Studies
a. Individual member case studies (10 individuals/households) – Annexure I
i. Households which moved out of poverty
ii. Households that has fallen into poverty
iii. Households that still remain in poverty
iv. Women with triple burden
v. Leaders (poor/dalit/tribal woman)
vi. Labourers and their food security
vii. Recent school drop out
b. Income and expenditure analysis and Sources of income (cash and kind) and how do
they relate to one another (10 households)
c. How are the 24 hours in a day spent by various members of the family? (10
households)
d. How do they spend 365 days? How do seasons affect their life? What changes with
each season? (10 households)
e. Institution case study – SHG – Annexure II
f. Federation case study – Village Organzation – Annexure III
14. Top Problems, Gaps and Opportunities in the villages
15. Documentation/Secondary information collected
16. Photographs, Video et al
17. Special research:
a. Do research on any special interest aspect and interpret the research findings vis-a-
vis secondary data
18. Community Action:
a. Develop your action plan to benefit the community and deliver the action plan
during the field work
b. Report on the benefits accrued to the community
19. Briefing initially and de-briefing in the end to the Community on the Fieldwork and
Learning from Field Work
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