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One of CATALYST's key strengths is the ability to conduct formative research to help understand the behavioral, familial, cultural or structural factors influencing decisions and actions. We are experienced in a wide variety of formative research methods that help policy makers and service managers to better understand the context of a given problem and, as a result, design more appropriate and effective intervention strategies and communication programs. Our formative research has frequently produced toolkits and manuals that Help ensure that the methodological approaches can be successfully replicated in other settings.
We begin by performing literature reviews to measure the state of the art and see what others have accomplished. For primary data collection, we use many different qualitative and quantitative methods. Interviews, focus groups and surveys play an important role, as do ethnographic techniques and innovative narrative and rapid assessment approaches--some of which are our own creation.
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