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Focus Group Discussion Guide (Participants: kebele leaders, elders and

other knowledgeable community members in a separate session for men


and women)

Livelihood /Food security


Demographic profile)

1. Are the people residents of this area, since when? Have people moved
out, when and why? What makes people stay here?
2. Has anything changed recently concerning the movements of people?
Why? Are certain household members leaving? Why and where are
they going?
Do men live in the community year round? If not, why do they move?

History and sequence of events

1. Have there been major changes recently, including sudden hazards,


slow development of a crisis or drought? When did this take place?
2. What is the nature of the event?
3. Has external assistance been requested? How?

How people make their living

1. In general and in normal years: What are the major agricultural


activities? Which crops are grown, cash or food crops? Who does what
on the land? Who has access to land? Who owns the land?

2. What are the types of livestock? Who owns them? Do herds move,
when and where? How big are the average herds for poor and wealthy
people?
3. What other types of income exist? What labor is there, for money or
goods? Who works as a laborer?
4. Have people received aid in recent years, why and how?
5. How do different people in the community earn an income? What are
the different livelihood groups?
6. How has all of this changed? How might this change (in case of
disaster preparedness assessment)?

Agriculture (more specific)

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1. What is the harvest in a normal year? What will it be this year?
2. What is the percentage of crops planted (now and in a normal year)?
How is the crop performance? Has the loss of crops in seeded plots
been partial or total? With which products?
3. What agricultural problems do the people face? Is this exceptional,
why?
4. How much should the harvest be for a minimum income?
5. What is the quality of the seeds, tools and fertilizers? Who owns the
tools? Has anything changed recently?

Livestock (more specific)

1. Have there been changes in herd sizes? How is the availability of water
and veterinary drugs?
2. How is the milk and meat yield? Are there currently changes in that,
why?
3. What are major problems now and in a normal year? Are these
exceptional, why?

Income

1. What are the main sources of income on average in a normal year (per
livelihood group or per community if it is similar)?
2. Does this change over the year, how? Has this recently changed, why
and how?
3. What income differences are there? What is a minimum income for a
household of a given number of people?

Examples of income categories (probe) : sale of food crops and cash crops;
milk and other dairy sales; livestock sales; labor (agriculture, construction);
trade (transport, resale of goods); craftwork (mats, baskets, pots); gifts, gifts;
and other production and collection and sale (firewood, charcoal, grass).

Do a proportional piling if you can?


How do people obtain their food?

1. In a normal year, how do people obtain their food? Does this change
over the year, how?
2. Has this recently changed, why and how?
3. Does the affected population have a reserve of food? And for how
long?
4. Do the families have the capacity to buy or access food?
5. What are the main needs in the food and nutrition?

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Examples of food source categories (probe): own crop production; purchase;
own livestock products (milk, meat); exchange for labour or food for work;
wild food collection; milk and other dairy sales; gifts of food; food aid; barter
(exchange one product for another); loans; stocks; food at work, at school;
and fishing, hunting.

Food consumption patterns

1. What is the average family diet in a normal year? Who is responsible


for meeting the food needs? What is the number of meals? Who
prepares these and how?
2. Where does the food come from (production, market, exchange,
donation, solidarity)?
3. Who eats what? Are their differences in diet between children, women
and men? What are they?
4. Are there seasonal shortages of food in the household in a normal
year? What do people do to meet their food needs then? Do you
normally collect wild foods, what kind?
5. Has there been any change recently in the people’s diets, since when
and how? Why? Who is mostly affected by these changes and how
(child, women, men…to capture intra HH gender and Child needs)
6. What do people do to avoid food shortage in the family?

Market prices and evolution

1. Can you give me prices of important commodities (cash crops, food


crops, as well as sugar, salt, vegetables)? What were the prices a year
ago of these commodities? Do you see any strong trends over the last
few months or years? Why?
2. Do you think the prices will fall or rise? Why?
3. How is the access to market? What are the main market days? Have
there been any changes in people selling or buying? Why? Ask the
same questions about livestock, milk and meat.
4. What is the livestock/grain ratio, for example, how much grain do you
need to buy one goat? Has this changed over time? When, how and
why?

General issues, including water and environment

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1. Who is engaged in firewood or charcoal collection or purchase? Why
the people engage in this? Is it difficult to obtain this? Have there
been any recent changes?
2. Who collects water, how is the quality of the drinking water? Where
do the people collect water? Is it far and safe? Is there enough?

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