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Chapter 1
Table 1-4: Distribution of qualitative in-depth interviews
Chapter 2 32 17 34 12 8 - 103 Chapter 34 15 11 10 7 3 - 46
Empirical Chapters
Types of Actors and Stakeholders
Total
Government
Development Partners
NGOs
Scientific community
Private sector
Others
Chapter 45 1 Chapter 5 8 Chapter 6 6
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- 2 - - 15 18 4 6 4 1 - 23 5 4 5 2 - 22 37 56 28 14 15 212
One hundred and seventy-six of the total interviews, representing 83 percent, were conducted face-to-face using a more conversational approach, using semi-structured interview protocols in order to give room for deeper probing on the issues under discussion. Several authors have supported the primacy of semi-structured questions over close-ended option due to the former’s limitation to obtain rich and detailed information (Weiss, 1994; Willner, 2011). A significant advantage of in-depth interviews in this thesis was the opportunity for, to a certain degree, exploration and deeper understanding of the responses provided by the interviewee to a few relevant and complex questions. Finally, each face-to-face interview took 30-90 minutes depending on the interviewee’s interest and disposable time. In addition, about 128 of the in-depth interviews (representing 60 percent) were voice-recorded, provided that the interviewee accepted; all voice-recorded interviews were later transcribed for ease of analysis.
Primary quantitative data: Towards answering the research question on local adaptation practices as well as the impact of local institutions, primary quantitative data at the household level were collected in three different
4 These interviews were conducted within the context of a science-policy dialogue organized on re- gional and national adaptation strategies in Yaoundé, Cameroon. See section 3.3 for more details on the dialogue.
5 Given that this research was undertaken at the local level, the 18 in-depth interviews were con- ducted with the management board of local communitarian forestry institutions across three different project sites. Majority of these interviewees fall within the category outside the main ones in the table. See Section 4.3.3 for more details.
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