Outline

This fieldwork report is an outcome of four individual case studies done in four different countries namely Norway, Nepal, India, and China. The report aims at using various participatory methods in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the challenges of the 4 case study areas to propose proper strategic intervention for them.

Various methods have been used, such as Quantitative and Qualitative Situational Analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, Land Use Analysis, Power-interest Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Risk Assessment, Traffic Counts, Survey tools, and Indepth Interviews with the Stakeholders to understand the situations of the case study areas and identify their problems in a broader perspective. We talked about the common methods we used in this introduction part and then went to the specific methods we used to fit the contexts of our case study areas in-depth in our individual work.

Despite the case studies being mainly individual work, we have been collaborating throughout the project by discussing and commenting on each other's projects, and reflecting upon methods, challenges and our strategic interventions.