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Rapid Inquiry

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Identifying Community Centric Intervention

HCD MODULE 3

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RAPID INQUIRY

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Prepare a discussion guide that will direct the rapid inquiry sessions.

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IN THIS LESSON:

CHOOSE ACTIVITIES

Include activities that invite local insights.

AREAS OF INQUIRY

List what you are trying to learn: what do you need to know about important barriers and enablers?

WRITE QUESTIONS

For each persona, write open-ended questions that invite detailed narrative answers.

ORDER QUESTIONS

Order your questions from general to specific in a discussion guide.

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Areas of inquiry are the biggest questions we have about people and challenges.

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They define

what we need to uncover during rapid inquiry.

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An iterative process with simple tools

ABOUT HCD

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Share statistics

stories backed by data

DAY 1: DEFINITION

Discover learning goals

DAY 2: DIAGNOSIS

Empathize and understand

Day 3: DESIGN

Ideate and prototype

Day 4: IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH

Test and evolve

People are

rational human

Closed open inquiry about challenges and solutions

Report on �Evolve your interventions

Define messages for Design interventions with the community

Challenges are one �multi-dimensional

Linear validation Cyclical iteration

PERSONA MODELS

JOURNEY MAPPING

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IDEA GENERATION

PROTOTYPING

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THEORY OF CHANGE

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Closed Open inquiry about challenges and solutions

Representative data does not always lead to new solutions or community-based understanding. HCD pairs open-ended questions with interactive activities to reveal habits, motivations and realities.

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Rapid Inquiry: Investigative methods to understand WHY people behave a certain way.

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* In-depth-individual interviews

* Social listening

* Exit interviews

* Show and tell

* Guided tours

* Observations at home/clinic

* Artifact collection

* Diaries (video, drawings, written)

* Peer to peer observation

Interactive activities such as:

* Voting jars

* Day in the life

* Timeline mapping

* Card Sorts

* Role Play

* Drawing or visualization

* Prioritization pies

* Complete the story

* Head/heart/hand

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Rapid inquiry & Research are not mutually exclusive.

MINDSET

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Know where to focus

Quant/Qual

Rapid

Inquiry

Quant/Qual

Participatory methods to deepen our understanding

Verify, scale & monitor

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Research

Academic methods to uncover patterns

  • Comparable questions about knowledge, awareness, practices

Rapid inquiry

Creative methods to uncover ideas

  • Open-ended questions
  • Interactive activities

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Leverage curiosity to uncover interventions.

MINDSET

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Why do we use �research?

  • Deep and/or representative insights about a population

  • Confirming hypothesis

Why do we use �rapid inquiry?

  • Continuous process to trial new ideas and test solutions

  • Testing assumptions

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Research for Information

Rapid Inquiry for Interventions

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Discussion guides with open ended questions

DISCUSSION GUIDE

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  • Tell me about a time when...
  • What are the best/worst parts about…?
  • Can you help me understand more about…?
  • Take me through your most recent experience in …?
  • Where do you get your information on...?
  • What workarounds have you found for...?

DISCUSSION GUIDE

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Having a good conversation with a stranger is not easy.

INTERVIEWING

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To help the person feel comfortable while collecting relevant information, we follow a discussion guide.

A discussion guide is a checklist for conducting research. It includes reminders of background information to share, open-ended questions to ask, and activities to administer.

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An open-ended question cannot be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

They are questions that ask participants to think about specific examples, occurrences and step-by-step memories.

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OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS

INTERVIEWING

  • Tell me about a time when...
  • What are the best/worst parts about…?
  • Can you help me understand more about…?
  • Take me through your most recent experience in …?
  • Where do you get your information on...?
  • What work-arounds have you found for...?

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Learn more about the nutrition habits, motivations, frustrations and influences of your partner.

  • Ask open-ended questions. (“Who, What, Where, When, Why and How”)
  • Avoid leading questions or statements.
  • Give them time to respond (6 second rule).

OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS

SYNTHESIS

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There are many rapid participatory research methods that we can use to understand people.

Together we will try three.

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Warm up by completing a day-in-the-life

To warm-up you may request a guided tour of a home, school or clinic. This will let you observe the details of daily life as well as the routines and habits of a community. You will be provided a worksheet to record a typical day in their life.

Q: I’m interested in knowing more about your day-to-day routine.

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VIEW DEMO VIDEO

TOOL

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Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

IN THE MORNING I AM:

DURING THE DAY I AM:

AT NIGHT I AM:

Day-in-the-Life

INTERVIEWEE ____________________________

Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

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Choices map to understand options

This choice map helps us see who is supporting and rejecting vaccinations in the community, and whether it is an individual’s choice or if they are required by some aspect of their society, such as school, government, religious sect. You will be given a worksheet to fill out with your interviewee.

Q: In each quadrant, who is the person/group in your community that chooses this?

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TOOL

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Choices

INTERVIEWEE ____________________________

INDIVIDUAL CHOICE

“I decide…”

COLLECTIVE CHOICE

“Society decides…”

REJECT

SUPPORT

HESITANT or �NO OPINION

(1) In each quadrant, who is the person/group in your community that chooses this?

(2) Where do you fit in? What are you choosing?

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Card sorts to complete journey barriers

Cards give the person you are interviewing options to prioritize barriers to immunization and explain. Instead of asking them to generate words and images, cards allow the interviewee to concentrate on the deeper meaning or values that the cards illustrate. Each team will be provided with a deck of cards.

Q: Divide the cards into 2 columns: positive and negative. Why?

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TOOL

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CARD SORTS

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Mind Mapping to understand associations

A mind map can help the interviewee organize his/her thoughts visually — put vaccination in the middle and try to get at what they associate / picture when they hear the term. Each team will be given blank paper and pens.

Q: What comes to your mind when you hear ‘sexual exploitation?’

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Head / heart / hand

to understand perspectives

The ‘head heart hand’ activity allows us to compare the perspectives of different actors in a given situation. What they are thinking, feeling or doing. It gives a broader view on social constructs and the gaps that exist.

Q: Picture yourself in situation X, what are you doing? Thinking? Feeling?

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VIEW DEMO VIDEO

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Gender boxes to understand social norms

Gender boxes are an opportunity to understand the widespread expectations of each gender. This gives a broader view on gender and the consequences of not conforming.

Q: What is the behavior of a “typical” adolescent girl? What are the consequences of violating this?

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In teams of 2, practice participatory rapid inquiry methods

  • The first member picks one method and facilitates it.
  • Pick another method. Switch who is asking questions (interviewer) and who is answering (interviewee).

RAPID INQUIRY METHODS

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Insights arise from the different expectations, challenges, and roles within a community.

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Complete the Rapid Inquiry Plan

  • Review persona and journey and select 3 big questions
  • Discuss who we should speak to and what methods we should use in order to answer the learning questions.

RAPID INQUIRY PLANNING

SYNTHESIS

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Research Plan

WHAT DO WE

NEED TO LEARN?

What are the ‘areas of inquiry’ or gaps in knowledge about personas and stages of the journey that need to be filled?

WHO DO WE NEED

TO SPEAK TO?

List the people you need to

talk to (family and community members, service providers, decision makers, leaders and

influencers) to investigate

the ‘areas of inquiry.’

WHAT RAPID, PARTICIPATORY

METHODS SHOULD WE USE?

List the best interactive activities for your ‘areas of inquiry’ — and WHY.

PERSONA

(responsibilities, routine, influences, concerns, decisions, motivations)

JOURNEY

(Gaining awareness, Contemplating, Having the intention, �Making preparations, Taking actions, Sustaining)

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In your teams, tailor your discussion guide

  • Review the questions that are in the ‘discussion guide template’. Tailor the guide to your persona by modifying, changing or removing questions.
  • Tailor activities that can help reveal deeper meanings or behavioural information.

DISCUSSION GUIDE

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Discussion guides with open ended questions

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Going to the field to conduct interviews

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Interview in teams �of 2-3: doing it alone can be hard, and involving the entire team can be intimidating for the interviewee.

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INTERVIEWER #1:

Ask questions, make eye contact and give directions for the activities. Consider someone who is an age/ gender/ perspective that will make the interviewee most comfortable.

INTERVIEWER #2:

Take notes, including verbatim quotes of important statements.

(optional) INTERVIEWER #3:

Take observational notes of the environment and nonverbal cues. With permission, take pictures of activities.

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Remain impartial:

Any judgement, including positive or negative reinforcement, can influence responses.

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5 Quotes

Memorable, important things this person said in their own words.

5 Observations

Things you observed in the community/clinic (focus on interactions and inconsistencies between what is said and what is done).

5 Surprising Moments

Things that were new or revealing (focus especially on drivers of behavior).

Early Ideas

Record 1-2 ideas that were suggested by the �community or inspired from the community.

Complete one worksheet after each interview.

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Interview Highlights

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Key Barriers

Record 1-2 barriers that are keeping this person �from advancing towards the desired behavior change.

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From quotes → Better understand personas and be inspired by stories

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Decision making

is a collective responsibility. One hand clapping does not make any sound.

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From surprising moments → Uncover human motivations, behavioral insights and possible opportunities

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EXAMPLE

Mothers do not see fatigue as a medical issue; they associate fatigue with being a good mother and completing the physical tasks she needs to perform.

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From barriers→ understand bottlenecks and get to the root causes

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From early ideas → Involve the perspective of the community and lean into solution mindsets, push to think of innovative ideas

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Let’s go to the field!

Meet here at: 9:00am

Packed lunch provided.

Afternoon session: synthesis.

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***Leave at 9:30 AM - then go to community***

Group 1A: Caregiver, Location 1

Group 2A: Health workers, Location 1

Group 3A: Father, Location 1

Group 4A: Community Leader, Location 1

Group 5A: CHV, Location 1

Group 1B: Caregiver, Location 2

Group 3B: Father, Location 2

Group 4B: Community Leader, Location 2

Group 5B: CHV, Location 2

Group 2B: Health workers, Location 2

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Rapid Inquiry Materials

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DISCUSSION GUIDE

MIND MAP

DAY IN THE LIFE

CARD SORT

RECORD FIELD RESEARCH

PEN, PAPER, CAMERA

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  • Share the method that worked the best for you.
  • Share an interesting / surprising story you heard.

GROUP REFLECTION

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APPENDIX

Facilitator’s References

  1. Rapid Inquiry Introduction
  2. ‘Rapid Inquiry Plan’ step-by-step
  3. Editable ‘Rapid Inquiry Plan’ tool
  4. Discussion Guide & Rapid Inquiry Methods Introduction
  5. Discussion Guide & Rapid Inquiry Methods step-by-step
  6. Editable Discussion Guide & Rapid Inquiry Methods
  7. ‘Interview Highlights’ step-by-step
  8. Editable ‘Interview Highlights’ tool

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Rapid Inquiry

use quick, interactive, personal and action-oriented research methods

Rapid inquiry involves interactive research methods to understand why people behave a certain way. The HCD version uses fast techniques to understand the many social, cultural, political and economic influences and motivations in a community.

These methods differ from traditional qualitative research methods in the following ways:

  • Creative methods to uncover ideas: The purpose is to fit solutions into the lived reality by listening to what people think and asking communities to improve starting ideas.
  • Continuous process that is narrow and quick: The process is agile to adapt solutions with limited resources. It asks open-ended questions that uncover the truth and includes activities that invite local contributions.
  • Curiosity required, not academic research training: Local communities can be trained to question assumptions and pay attention to observational details.

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Rapid Inquiry Plan

explore areas of inquiry and direct the right questions and activities to the right people

To uncover what we need to learn about the community we use a research plan to help us structure our rapid inquiry.

A rapid inquiry plan is a tool that helps us make sure we are exploring our areas of inquiry by asking the right questions to the right people.

TOOLS

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Rapid Inquiry Plan

Activity instructions:

  1. Using the persona and journey determine what you want to learn more about during field research.
  2. List the people you need to talk to (family and community members, service providers, decision makers, leaders and influencers) to investigate these questions.
  3. Determine the best interactive activities to engage the community and achieve your learning goals.

TOOLS

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PDF POSTER VERSION ENG

FACILITATOR PREPARATION

Print one copy for the whole group.

Modify and/or translate to fit the challenge.

Editable version available on next slide.

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Research Plan

WHAT DO WE

NEED TO LEARN?

What are the ‘areas of inquiry’ or gaps in knowledge about personas and stages of the journey that need to be filled?

WHO DO WE NEED

TO SPEAK TO?

List the people you need to

talk to (family and community members, service providers, decision makers, leaders and

influencers) to investigate

the ‘areas of inquiry.’

WHAT RAPID, PARTICIPATORY

METHODS SHOULD WE USE?

List the best interactive activities for your ‘areas of inquiry’ — and WHY.

PERSONA

(responsibilities, routine, influences, concerns, decisions, motivations)

JOURNEY

(Knowledge and awareness, Intent, Preparation, Cost & Effort, Point of Service, Experience of Care, After Service)

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Discussion Guide

prepare for rapid inquiry by developing a list of questions and activities

Having a good conversation with a stranger is not easy. Directing a conversation to cover necessary areas of inquiry is even harder. To help participants feel comfortable during the interview while also helping interviewers collect relevant information, we follow a discussion guide.

A discussion guide is a checklist for conducting ‘rapid inquiry.’ It include reminders of background information to share, open-ended questions to ask, and activities to administer.

TOOLS

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Discussion Guide

Activity instructions:

  1. Review the sample questions in the ‘discussion guide template’ or write your own. Write questions that are open-ended (not yes/no) and that ask participants to think about specific examples, occurrences and step-by-step memories.
  2. Practice asking questions and facilitating the activities that will help reveal deeper meanings.
  3. Conduct the interviews with the selected community members.

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DISCUSSION GUIDE

FACILITATOR PREPARATION

Print one discussion guide per participant.

Modify and/or translate to fit the challenge.

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Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

IN THE MORNING I AM:

DURING THE DAY I AM:

AT NIGHT I AM:

Day-in-the-Life

INTERVIEWEE ____________________________

Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

Identify opportunities:

Identify pain points:

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Choices

INTERVIEWEE ____________________________

INDIVIDUAL CHOICE

“I decide…”

COLLECTIVE CHOICE

“Society decides…”

REJECT

SUPPORT

HESITANT or �NO OPINION

(1) In each quadrant, who is the person/group in your community that chooses this?

(2) Where do you fit in? What are you choosing?

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Interview Highlights

Activity instructions:

  1. Fill out one ‘Interview Highlights’ worksheet after each interview to distill your notes and capture the main things you want to remember.
  2. From quotes → Better understand personas and be inspired by stories
  3. From surprising moments → Uncover human motivations, behavioral insights and possible opportunities
  4. From barriers→ understand bottlenecks and get to the root causes
  5. From early ideas → Involve the perspective of the community and lean into solution mindsets, push to think of innovative ideas

TOOLS

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PDF SHEET VERSION ENG

FACILITATOR PREPARATION

Print one copy for each interview (at least)

Modify and/or translate to fit the challenge.

Editable version available on next slide.

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5 Quotes

Memorable, important things this person said in their own words.

5 Observations

Things you observed in the community/clinic (focus on interactions and inconsistencies between what is said and what is done).

5 Surprising Moments

Things that were new or revealing (focus especially on drivers of behavior).

Early Ideas

Record 1-2 ideas that were suggested by the �community or inspired from the community.

Complete one worksheet after each interview.

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Interview Highlights

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Key Barriers

Record 1-2 barriers that are keeping this person �from advancing towards the desired behavior change.