Working Draft - Formal Proposal

This is a working draft so will change. As my research committee is in four countries on 3 continents, I have set up a group where I can work with them and a few other people who have some special interest in my research. You are invited to follow what is happening there and if you feel you have an ongoing interest in participating, please message me and I will see about inviting you to participate in that group. I just need to keep the traffic in that group low for some of the other participants. This is here using an on-include directive so reflects the current state of the worksheet. You can look at the revisions there if you want to see how things develop.

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Last comment added: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:44:36 PST

Comment 1 on Working Draft - Formal Proposal

Linda this is great! I especially love this part:

The second community will be a newly forming resettlement community of child-headed households in the Amaru District in northern Uganda. The same procedure described above will be followed by the research team during the period of March, April and May of 2009. The second administration will be one year later in 2010.

This is such a much better timing and I am so glad to see you've been able to reincorporate us into your work.

Just one minor thing to edit - in the first part you mention the Omidyar.net conference interest but not the name of the project. In the second part you mention the Opok Farms project but it's not clear what or where that is. A strengthened link between the two somehow would be good.

So excited to pick your brain more about this when I see you in Feb!

Comment 2 on Working Draft - Formal Proposal

Christina, At the conference the conference interest was not from Opok Farm. The conference interest was from members from Kenya. The interest from Opok Farms was voiced after I returned from Uganda.

Comment 3 on Working Draft - Formal Proposal

I get that... Perhaps just mentioning in the second section that Opok Farm is in Uganda would make the reference flow better.

Comment 4 on Working Draft - Formal Proposal

Fixed, I think. You were right. It needed clarification. That is one advantage of having lots of eyes on all of this work!

Comment 5 on Working Draft - Formal Proposal

Linda, I'm not sure where you changed it but my challenge was in the following paragraph.

Statement of the Problem

Because this process depends significantly on agricultural self production to provide for basic sustenance needs, current development indicators are inadequate in measuring development success in sufficiency development models. Currently purported "development" indicators either significantly depend on a measurement of per capita GNP or they are based on subjective evaluations of happiness. Because of the age, education and traumatic lives of the children involve in the Community at Opok Farms in Uganda, there is concern that subjective evaluation tools might not accurately reflect the conditions in the community.