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“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” ― Bob Marley I just saw Nas Daily episode no 858 where he described an IDEA as “number trap”. For next one hour I tried searching about it in the internet. Then next one hour I tried thinking about it. Then eventually I made up my mind to write something about it. According to Nas whenever we give some one 5Euro it make them happy till the point they think that is not enough for them. And they now want more to become happy as they were before, and it was such a simple thing that we all knew but we don’t accept it. The number trap is kind of which consumes us. Numbers provide instant gratification and without thinking a much we think that we tend to like it more, we discuss more about the things which are used by many. If I take this IDEA from Nas and try to understand why development project fail after initial successes this could be a reason which was hid...

Source:innovationforsocialchange.org What? Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a model that seeks to engage stakeholders in self-determined change. It studies to adopt an interpretive qualitative approach (Verstehen) to explore the beliefs, values and actions that characterize stakeholders. Why? It can be excellent tool evaluate a NGOs and its impact. It mainly seek to achieve vivid account of the situation and experiences of its stakeholders. Appreciative Inquiry is an approach that focuses on identifying what is working well, analyzing why it is working well and then doing more of it. The basic tenet of AI is that an organization will grow in whichever direction that people in the organization focus their attention. If all the attention is focused on problems, then identifying problems and dealing with them is what the organization will do best. If all the attention is focused on strengths, however, then identifying strengths and building on those strengths is what the ...

W hat is a focus group? It is research tool widely used by different researcher to get the glimpse of the ground realities of situation. A focus group is a small-group discussion guided by a facilitator. A  focus group discussion  (FGD) is a good way to gather together people from similar backgrounds or experiences to discuss a specific topic of interest. Main benefits are that in one go researcher get talk with so many people. If conducted properly research get to observe politics, dynamics within participants and may get to know the underlying reason behind specific problems. Figure 1: FGD Conducted by facilitator with an assistant in front of village club.   Prerequisite for FGD?   At least group of 8 people to start with and people can join later but good facilitator would stop people from joining in in the middle of the discussion as it can change the course of discussion. Always fill-up participants list. It is highly recommended that ...