Please go to our Institute of African Studies’s YouTube channel to watch videos interviews of researchers and gender focal points from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda who participated in a 5 day methodological training workshop in Kampala in June- July 2015. In these interviews, they offer methodological reflections based on the initial research and their ongoing work with the “Uncovering women’s experiences in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa” project funded under the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (in partnership with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development [DFID)]and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation). This research project involves quantitative and qualitative research in mining communities in the three countries over a three-year period.
The video interviews were conducted by Sarah Katz-Lavigne and Decky Kipuka Kabongi, both PhD candidates at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University. The interviews are in English, French or KiSwahili.
This workshop – on a variety of topics including gender, sampling, engaging respondents, and doing surveys – was organized to train researchers involved in this three country project as well as those involved in the research project “Statebuilding and Women’s livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining,” which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and carried out in Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.
More information on the research projects can be found here.