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IV) Work plan (project management) 
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Personnel, job descriptions, training 
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Schedule (timetable)- provide actual dates for each activity 
- Pilot phase 
- Final study 
• Onset, data collection, analysis, write-up 
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Relevant 
facilities 
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Cooperating 
organizations 

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V) Budget
(itemize all direct costs in Ethiopian Birr) 
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Personnel, material/supplies, travel, analysis, contingency, etc. 
VI) References:
List only those cited in text and number by order they appear in text using 
Arabic numerals. 
VII) Appendices: -
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Data collection and coding forms 
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Dummy tables for data presentation 
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Letters of support (cooperation) 
Exercise 
Develop a research proposal of your own topic. Take account of all the chapters covered so 
far and write your final proposal in line with the guideline given above.
8.2 Summary of the major activities of the fieldwork phase
Activities to be performed during the field period 
1. Briefing of managers and health service personnel: The purpose of the briefing is to 
obtain support for the project. Such support is necessary to obtain resources as well as to get 
permission to collect the required data. Briefing should be conducted with all important 
persons and/or organizations at different levels. 
2. Identifying and obtaining project resources: We have to identify and obtain the 
necessary resources (manpower, materials, etc.) needed to collect the required data. We 
have to make sure that all the items needed for the study are ready. 
3. Reviewing availability of subjects: It is important to make personal visits to every site 
where the actual data will be collected to understand the physical and manpower limitations, 
constraints and special circumstances that could influence data collection. This would assist 
the investigators to take an appropriate measure and make the necessary preparations. 

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4. Organizing logistics for data collection: Having made an inventory of available resources, 
the logistics for data collection have to be organized. This will involve planning in detail how , 
where, and when data collection will be carried out. 
5. Preparing fieldwork manuals: Manuals or instruction sheets should be prepared for 
interviewers (data collectors) and supervisors. 
- The manual for data collectors should have instructions concerning the: 
• purpose of the study 
• role of the data collectors 
• the way data collectors should introduce themselves to respondents 
• interviewing 
techniques 
• questionnaire (general format, clarification of terms, instructions regarding how to ask 
sensitive or complicated questions, instructions concerning how to fill in answers, such 
as, answers to open-ended questions) 
• sampling procedures (and what to do if the required respondent is absent, etc.) 
- The manual for supervisors, in addition to the above instructions, should include 
information on: 
• maintaining a record of data collectors' attendance 
• safe-keeping of completed (filled) data 
• determining the number of interviews to be completed each day by every data 
collector depending on the specific circumstance the data collector is found (e.g., the 
houses to be covered could be scattered, etc.) 
• ensuring the quality control of fieldwork 
• dealing with non-responses and incomplete interviews 
• reporting progress to the coordinator at specific intervals