Focus on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods

• Various methods of ethnographic observation and participant observation
• Various methods of ethnographic interviewing
• Focus and other group interviews
• Community mapping of space utilization and material culture
• Analyses of texts (written, audio, visual, and lived)
• Community, family, individual, and project case studies
• Oral and life histories
• Genealogical and network analyses

Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Services

CuSAG brings its facility with ethnographic and qualitative methodologies to multi-method research settings in which this expertise is used to complement more "quantitative" methodologies in such applied research activities as the following:

• Baseline, community, cultural, and organizational assessments
• Formative, process, outcome, and impact evaluation
• The analysis of qualitative data sets

Program Planning and Implementation Activities

• Resource (organizational/leadership) development training and support
• Community organizing/development and coalition building
• Social marketing
• The development, implementation, and evaluation of cultural and community relevant/appropriate educational and intervention materials
• Training and counseling in intercultural communication and adaptation