SWIMSAFE and ANCHAL INTERVIEW GUIDE
HQ Staff
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Role in HQ office
and/or role in
Swimsafe and Anchal
Gender issues
SwimSafe and
Anchal field team
1. Do you think men or women are more suited to be CSIs, or do you
think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
2. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs by
the program?
a. If yes, in what way?
3. Do you think men or women are more suited to be Supervisors for
both Anchal and SwimSafe, or do you think they are equally
suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
4. How has being an Anchal Maa or Anchal Assistant changed these
women’s roles in the community?
a. Probes: Community decision making, Community councils,
Mobility in community, Access to resources
5. How has being an Anchal Maa or Anchal Assistant changed these
women’s roles in their homes
a. Probes: Decision making, control over finances, child
caretaking
6. What are the opportunities that are given from the Anchal
program to Anchal Maas and Anchal Assistants that other women
in the community do not have?
7. What are some problems that Anchal Maas and Anchal Assistants
might face that other women in the community may not face?
a. Probes: In the community, at home
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SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE
Children
Eligibility Criteria
Number of
participants
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Gender
Knowledge, beliefs,
perceptions
1. Do you think both boys and girls should learn how to swim, or
only girls or only boys?
a. Why?
Practices and
participation
2. Do boys and girls perform the same or different in the class?
a. If different, How and why?
Costume 3. What are the differences in the costumes girls and boys wear?
4. Do boys have any particular problems with their swimming
costumes?
5. Do girls have any particular problems with their costumes?
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SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE
Community Swimming Instructors (CSIs)
Eligibility Criteria
Number of
attendees
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
1. Recruitment
Recruitment process 1. How does your family respond to you doing this job?
a. Why do they respond in this way?
Gender perspective 2. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited? (Probe for beliefs about
women’s roles and abilities)
3. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs by
the program?
a. If yes, in what way?
2. Effect on everyday life
Role in decision
making
4. How has becoming a CSI changed your role in family decision
making?
Resources 5. How has becoming a CSI impacted the resources you have access
to for everyday living? For example, food, medicine, books for
your children etc.
Practices and
participation
6. How has becoming a CSI changed the housework you do?
Community
involvement
7. How has being a CSI changed your involvement in the community?
For example participation in festivals, village governance
committees and community decision making.
3. Challenges
Conducting classes 8. What are some of the challenges you face when conducting
classes?
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9. How do you deal with these challenges?
10. What swimwear do you wear to classes?
a. Why?
Access challenges 11. Are there any problems you face when you travel to and from the
class?
12. What are the reasons you have had to cancel a class?
13. How do you communicate to your students that class is cancelled?
Pool 14. What do you think of the appropriateness pools you provide your
lessons in?
15. How can pool selection be improved?
Overall experiences 16. Overall, can you tell me about any good or memorable
experiences you have had with SwimSafe?
17. Can you tell me about any bad experiences you have had with the
SwimSafe classes?
4. Overall Satisfaction
Satisfaction 18. Overall, are you satisfied with your job as a CSI?
a. Why or why not?
19. Overall, do you think you are valuable to your community?
a. Why or Why not?
Recommendations 20. How do you think the SwimSafe program can be improved?
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SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE – GENDER EVALUATION
Community Swimming Instructors (CSIs)
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Sites
Number of
attendees
1. Roles and responsibilities
Operations 1. Can you tell me about your roles as a CSI?
Motivations 2. Why do people become Swim Instructors?
2. Child attendance and competency
Gender differences 3. Can you describe any differences in how girls and boys learn how
to swim?
4. Can you describe any differences in performance of girls and boys
in your classes?
3. Recruitment and training
Recruitment process 5. How do you families respond to you doing this job?
a. Why do they respond in this way?
b. How would your family respond if you were of the
opposite gender?
Gender 6. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
Support 7. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs?
a. If yes, in what way?
4. Effect on everyday life
General Impacts 8. How has being a CSI changed your day to day lives?
9. What are the positive benefits of being a CSI?
10. What are the negative consequences of being a CSI?
Resources 11. What are the things your families need to live comfortably? This
might include access to healthcare, food, water and more.
12. How do you generally access these resources at home?
13. Who generally accesses these resources at home?
14. Are there certain resources that women are not able to access?
a. If yes
i. What are these resources?
ii. Why can’t women access them?
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15. How has being a CSI changed which resources you have access to
and how you access them?
Control 16. Do you think there are differences in how much control men and
women have over their lives?
a. If yes, can you please describe why there are differences?
17. How has being a CSI changed the level of control you have over
how you spend your time?
18. Who is the main decision maker on important issues in your
family?
19. How has becoming CSIs changed your roles in family decision
making?
Practices and
participation
20. Can you describe if there are some types of income-earning jobs
more suited to men than women?
a. Why?
21. Can you describe if there are some types of income-earning jobs
more suited to women than men?
a. Why?
22. How is housework such as child care, cleaning and cooking divided
in your home between you and your partners?
a. Why is it divided this way?
23. How does becoming a CSI change the housework you do and how
it’s divided?
Community
involvement
24. How has being a CSI changed your involvement in the community?
For example participation in festivals, village governance
committees and community decision making.
5. Challenges
Access challenges 25. Can you describe how do you travel to the SwimSafe class?
26. What are the challenges related to access that differ between
male and female CSIs?
Gendered
differences
27. Can you describe any particular challenges that male CSIs face
that female CSIs don’t face?
28. Can you describe any particular challenges that female CSIs face
that male CSIs don’t face?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE – GENDER EVALUTION
Community Swimming Instructors (CSIs)
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Time as CSI
Has the CSI left the
program?
Yes/No
1. Roles and responsibilities
Demographic
information
1. Are you from the same community your work in?
2. What is your educational background?
3. What other communities have you worked in?
Operations 4. Can you tell me about your role as a CSI?
Motivations 5. Why did you become a Swim Instructor?
2. Child attendance and competency
Gender differences 6. Can you describe any differences in how girls and boys learn how
to swim?
7. Can you describe any differences in performance of girls and boys
in your classes?
3. Recruitment and training
Recruitment process 8. How does your family respond to you doing this job?
a. Why do they respond in this way?
b. How would your family respond if you were of the
opposite gender?
Gender 9. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
Support 10. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs by
the program?
a. If yes, in what way?
4. Effect on everyday life
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General Impacts 11. How has being a CSI changed your day to day life?
12. What are the positive benefits of being a CSI?
13. What are the negative consequences of being a CSI?
Resources 14. What are the things your family needs to live comfortably? This
might include access to healthcare, food, water and more.
15. How do you generally access these resources at home?
16. Who generally accesses these resources at home?
17. Are there certain resources that women are not able to access?
a. If yes
i. What are these resources?
ii. Why can’t women access them?
18. How has being a CSI changed which resources you have access to
and how you access them?
Control 19. Do you feel you have control over what you can do with your life?
a. Why or why not?
20. Do you think there are differences in how much control men and
women have over their lives?
a. If yes, can you please describe why there are differences?
21. How has being a CSI changed the level of control you have over
how you spend your time?
22. Can you describe to me how decisions are made in your family?
23. Who is the main decision maker on important issues in your
family?
24. How has becoming a CSI changed your role in family decision
making?
Practices and
participation
25. Can you tell me about any other jobs you do to earn an income?
26. Can you describe if there are some types of income-earning jobs
more suited to men than women?
a. Why?
27. Can you describe if there are some types of income-earning jobs
more suited to women than men?
a. Why?
28. How is housework such as child care, cleaning and cooking divided
in your home between you and your partner?
a. Why is it divided this way?
29. How has becoming a CSI changed the housework you do?
Community
involvement
30. How has being a CSI changed your involvement in the community?
For example participation in festivals, village governance
committees and community decision making.
31. Are there differences in the ability of men and women to
participate in community activities and decision-making?
a. Why?
5. Challenges
Conducting classes 32. What swimwear do you wear to classes?
a. Why?
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33. If the participant is a woman: How do you manage around your
monthly cycles when you have classes?
Access challenges 34. Are there any problems you face when you travel to and from the
class?
35. Do these challenges related to access differ between male and
female CSIs?
Gendered
differences
36. Can you describe any particular challenges that male CSIs face
that female CSIs don’t face?
37. Can you describe any particular challenges that female CSIs face
that male CSIs don’t face?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE
Children
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Age
Gender
1. Gender
Knowledge, beliefs,
perceptions
1. Do you think both boys and girls should learn how to swim, or
only girls or only boys?
a. Why?
Practices and
participation
2. Do boys and girls perform the same or different in the class?
a. If different, How and why?
Costume 3. What are the differences in the costumes girls and boys wear?
4. Do boys have any particular problems with their swimming
costumes?
5. Do girls have any particular problems with their costumes?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE
Community Swimming Instructors (CSIs)
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
1. Recruitment
Recruitment process 1. How does your family respond to you doing this job?
a. Why do they respond in this way?
Gender perspective 2. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited? (Probe for beliefs about
women’s roles and abilities)
3. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs by
the program?
a. If yes, in what way?
2. Effect on everyday life
Role in decision
making
4. Can you describe to me how decisions are made in your family?
5. Who is the main decision maker on important issues in your
family?
6. How has becoming a CSI changed your role in family decision
making?
Resources 7. How has becoming a CSI impacted the resources you have access
to for everyday living? For example, food, medicine, books for
your children etc.
Practices and
participation
8. How has becoming a CSI changed the housework you do?
Community
involvement
9. How has being a CSI changed your involvement in the community?
For example participation in festivals, village governance
committees and community decision making.
3. Engagement with parents
Parent meetings 10. Can you describe the types of meetings you have with parents?
a. Probe
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i. Contents of meetings
ii. Frequency
11. Are parents interested in attending the meetings?
a. Why or why not?
Parent problems 12. What are some of the things that parents like about SwimSafe?
13. What are some of the issues that parents have with SwimSafe?
VIPCs 14. Can you describe the meetings you have with the VIPC?
a. Probe
i. Contents of meetings
ii. Frequency
15. Can you give an example of how you and VIPC have changed or
improved the program in your community?
4. Challenges
Conducting classes 16. What are some of the challenges you face when conducting
classes?
17. How do you deal with these challenges?
18. What swimwear do you wear to classes?
a. Why?
19. If the participant is a woman: How do you manage around your
monthly cycles when you have classes?
Access challenges 20. Can you describe how do you travel to and from the SwimSafe
class?
21. Are there any problems you face when you travel to and from the
class?
22. What are the reasons you have had to cancel a class?
23. How do you communicate to your students that class is cancelled?
Pool 24. How were your teaching pools selected?
25. What do you think of the appropriateness pools you provide your
lessons in?
26. How can pool selection be improved?
Overall experiences 27. Overall, can you tell me about any good or memorable
experiences you have had with SwimSafe?
28. Can you tell me about any bad experiences you have had with the
SwimSafe classes?
5. Overall Satisfaction
Satisfaction 29. Overall, are you satisfied with your job as a CSI?
a. Why or why not?
30. Do you feel confident that you can run SwimSafe classes?
a. Why or why not?
31. Overall, do you think you are valuable to your community?
a. Why or Why not?
Recommendations 32. How do you think the SwimSafe program can be improved?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE
HQ Staff
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Role in HQ office
Gender issues
Gender 1. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim
instructors, or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
2. Do you think men or women are more suited to be Supervisors, or
do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
3. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs?
a. If yes, in what way?
4. Do you think male Supervisors would be treated differently to
female Supervisors?
5. Do you think male Program Coordinators would be treated
differently to female Program Coordinators?
a. If yes, in what way?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE
Parents of drop out children
Eligibility Criteria
Number of children
in SwimSafe
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
1. General experience of program
Description of
experience
1. How old are your children who attended the program?
2. Why did you initially enrol your children into SwimSafe classes?
3. Do you think both boys and girls should learn how to swim, or
only girls or only boys?
a. Why?
4. At what age do you think children should attend SwimSafe?
a. Why?
2. Program orientation
Enrolment Process 5. How do you know about this program?
a. Probe: Different places from where they heard about the
program
6. Who made the decision for your child/children to get involved in
this program?
7. Did you attend any SwimSafe sessions?
a. If yes, what did you do and see in this session?
b. If no, why have you not attended a SwimSafe session?
3. Perceived value
Reasons for drop out 8. What were the reasons you left SwimSafe classes?
a. Probe for the following issue
i. Did s/he face any problem from your family or
locality to involve in this program?
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ii. Did s/he face any problem from our program side
or program staff?
iii. Was there any other reason for dropping out?
Child retention 9. What can the SwimSafe program do to encourage your child to
join SwimSafe again?
Recommendations 10. Would you recommend this program to other parents?
a. Why or why not?
11. Do you have any other recommendations for how the SwimSafe
program can improve?
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SWIMSAFEINTERVIEW GUIDE
Parents of graduated and enrolled children
Eligibility Criteria
Number of children
in SwimSafe
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
1. General experience of program
Description of
experience
1. How old are your children who attend the program?
2. Why did you enrol your children into SwimSafe classes?
3. How much does your child enjoy attending SwimSafe classes?
4. Do you think both boys and girls should learn how to swim, or
only girls or only boys?
a. Why?
5. At what age are you comfortable sending your child to SwimSafe?
a. Why?
2. Attendance at program
Frequency 6. How often do you your children attend SwimSafe classes?
7. What are main things that prevent your child from attending the
swimming class?
3. Previous ability
Previous swimming
ability
8. Did your child know how to swim before you started SwimSafe
classes?
a. If no, why not?
b. If yes
i. How did they learn?
ii. How good was your swimming?
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iii. Do you think SwimSafe is a better way to learn
swimming, or the way they learned previously?
Why?
4. Program orientation
Enrolment Process 9. How do you know about this program?
a. Probe: Different places from where they heard about the
program
10. Do you present at or attend any awareness session of this
program?
a. If yes, then explore the total procedure of the awareness
session.
11. What are the reasons to involve your child/children in this
program?
12. Who made the decision for your child/children to get involved in
this program?
13. What are the procedures you followed to enrol into the program
and begin attending classes?
14. Have you attended any SwimSafe sessions?
a. If yes, what did you do and see in this session?
b. If no, why have you not attended a SwimSafe session?
5. Perceived value
Value 15. How effective do you think SwimSafe has been in keeping your
child safe from drowning?
16. Do you think every child should do the SwimSafe classes?
a. Why or Why not?
17. Do you think that SwimSafe is beneficial to the community in
other ways?
a. If yes, what benefits does it bring?
b. If no, why not?
Overall experiences 18. Can you tell me about any bad experiences you have had with the
SwimSafe classes?
19. Can you tell me about any positive experiences you’ve had with
SwimSafe classes?
6. Components of the program
CSI 20. What do you think about the swimming instructors?
21. What is your satisfaction level with the swimming instructors?
a. Why?
22. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
23. Do you have any recommendations for how swimming instructors
can improve?
Access challenges 24. Can you describe how your child travel to SwimSafe class?
25. Are there any problems your child faces with the way they access
the class?
26. Do these challenges related to access differ between fathers and
mothers, or girls and boys?
27. Do you have any recommendations for how access to the swim
classes can be improved?
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Pool 28. What do you think of the pool the lessons are held in?
29. Do you have any recommendations for how the pool for classes
can be improved?
Recommendations 30. Would you recommend this program to other parents?
a. Why or why not?
31. Do you have any other recommendations for how the SwimSafe
program can improve?
32. Do you have any recommendations for how the SwimSafe
program might attract more children and parents?
33. Do you have any recommendations for how SwimSafe can make it
easier for parents to register and send their children?
7. Effect on Gender
Resources 34. What knowledge or information on have you gained as a result of
sending your child to SwimSafe? For example, around child injury
and safety.
Control 35. What do your other family members think about your child
attending SwimSafe?
36. Who made the decision to send your child to SwimSafe?
a. Why did they make the decision?
37. Who else was involved in the discussion on whether to send your
child to SwimSafe?
a. What input did each of these family members have?
Practices,
participation
38. Who drops your child to SwimSafe?
a. Why?
39. What positive benefits has SwimSafe brought to your daily life?
a. Probe: More time for work, less concern for child’s safety
40. What negative consequences has Anchal brought to your life?
a. Probe: More time taken to drop and pick up child
Community
involvement
41. How has sending your child to SwimSafe changed your
involvement in the community?
a. Probe: participation in VIPCs, child injury awareness work
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Parents of unenrolled/unregistered children
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
Number of children
Age of Children
1. Child’s swimming ability
Swimming ability 1. Does your child know how to swim?
a. If no, why not?
b. If yes
i. How did they learn?
ii. Do you think SwimSafe is a better way to learn
swimming, or the way your child has learned?
Why?
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2. Reasons for non-attendance
Description of first
contact
2. How were you first informed about the SwimSafe program?
3. What did you think about the program when you heard about it?
4. At what age should parents send their child to SwimSafe?
a. Why?
Reasons for non-
attendance
5. Why didn’t you register your child from SwimSafe?
a. Probe for
i. Worries about safety
ii. Issues accessing the program
iii. Time constraints
iv. Others
6. What are your biggest concerns about the SwimSafe program?
7. What are the things about the program you think are good?
Improvements 8. What improvements could SwimSafe make that would make you
consider registering your child?
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Program Coordinator / Area Coordinator / Field Manager
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
CSIs and Supervisor experiences
CSI Experiences 1. Can you describe your relationships with your CSIs, and how you
build relationships with them?
2. What do you think CSIs think of their job?
CSI challenges and
benefits
3. What are some of the challenges CSIs face when conducting
classes?
4. How do they deal with these challenges?
5. What are the problems CSIs face when they travel to and from the
class?
CSI Training 6. How adequate is the training in preparing CSIs for their roles?
7. How can the training be improved?
CSI Retention 8. What are the factors that make a CSI stay in the program?
9. Why do CSIs leave the program?
10. What are the differences in the reasons for staying and leaving
between male and female CSIs?
Gender 11. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim
instructors, or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
12. What are the specific benefits and challenges of being a CSI for
women?
13. What are the specific benefits and challenges of being a CSI for
men?
14. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs?
a. By the program
b. By the community
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Supervisors
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
1. Recruitment and training
Gender 1. Do you think men or women are more suited to be CSIs, or do you
think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
2. How are male CSIs treated differently to female CSIs?
3. Do you think men or women are more suited to be Supervisors, or
do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
4. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,
or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
5. Do you think male CSIs would be treated differently to female
CSIs?
a. If yes, in what way?
6. Compared to other women in the community, what challenges do
female CSIs face?
7. Compared to other women in the community, what advantages
do female CSIs have?
a. Probe for
i. Effects of having an income on control, decision
making and resources
ii. Mobility in the community
iii. Other
2. CSIs
SwimSafe classes 8. Can you describe your relationships with your CSIs, and how you
build relationships with them?
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CSI experiences 9. What do you think CSIs think of their job?
10. What are the benefits of being a CSI for women?
11. What are the benefits of being a CSI for men?
Conducting classes 12. What are some of the challenges CSIs face when conducting
classes?
13. How do they deal with these challenges?
Access challenges 14. What are the problems they face when they travel to and from
the class?
Gendered
differences
15. Can you describe any particular challenges that male CSIs face
that female CSIs don’t face?
16. Can you describe any particular challenges that female CSIs face
that male CSIs don’t face?
CSI retention 17. What are the factors that make a CSI stay in the program as a
swim instructor?
18. Why do CSIs leave the program?
19. What are the differences in the reasons for staying and leaving
between male and female CSIs?
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SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE – PHASE 2
Teachers
Eligibility Criteria
Age
Gender
School Name
Years of Experience
as a teacher
Education
Village
Union
Ward
Upazila
Capacity Building
Teacher knowledge 1. Do you know what type of training is provided in SwimSafe
program for your school children? Please tell in details
a. Probe: session numbers, topic & location and children’s
number
2. What is your opinion about the Swimming instructor?
a. Probe: CSI’s attitude to children, expertise
Children perceptions 3. How interested were children to join the SwimSafe training
session?
a. Why? Why not?
Program
effectiveness
4. Do you think the program is effective?
a. Why or Why not?
5. What do you like most about the program?
6. What you do not like about this program?
Reasons for child drop out
Child drop out 7. What is the reason for children dropping out from SwimSafe?
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a. Probe for distance, family, social, economic, gender based
or any other problem due to the program
8. What do you think the SwimSafe program should do to reduce
dropout rates?
Program
sustainability
9. What do you think what should we do to make SwimSafe more
sustainable long term in the community?
10. How can we implement your ideas?
a. Probe for: any specific stakeholders or groups, logistics or
other issues
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Trainers
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
Training provision
Challenges in
training delivery
1. What challenges have you faced when providing training?
2. How do you overcome these challenges?
3. Are the resources you’re provided to do your job enough?
a. Why or why not?
4. Overall, how can the training to CSIs be improved?
Area of
Improvement
5. Is there any issue in training that we can improve?
a. If, yes, then what are the issues and how can we improve
it?
6. Is there anything else that we incorporate in our training module
for improvement?
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Village Injury Prevention Committee
Eligibility Criteria
Village / Site
Gender
Age
Education
Occupation
Gender Perceptions
CSIs 1. Do you think men or women are more suited to be Swim
Instructors, or do you think they are equally suited?
a. Probe for beliefs about women’s roles and abilities
2. What special provisions, if any, do you need to provide to female
Swim Instructors?
3. What special provisions, if any, do you need to provide to male
Swim Instructors?
4. What are the benefits and challenges of being a CSI for women?
5. In what ways does being a CSI change women’s roles in the
community?
a. Probe for
i. Involvement with community festivals and
decision making
ii. Mobility in the community
6. In what ways does being a CSI change women’s roles in the
home?
a. Probe for
i. Decision making capacity at home
ii. Control over home finances
iii. Control over time spent
7. What are the benefits and challenges of being a CSI for men?
8. In what ways does being a CSI change men’s roles in the
community?
a. Probe for
i. Involvement with community festivals and
decision making
ii. Mobility in the community
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9. In what ways does being a CSI change men’s roles in the home?
a. Probe for
i. Decision making capacity at home
ii. Control over home finances
iii. Control over time spent
VIPC members 10. What is your ratio of men to women in the VIPC committee?
11. What is the reason for the number of women you have in the
committee?
a. Probe for perception on
i. Women’s roles in community work
ii. Women’s leadership abilities
iii. Women’s rights to have a say in issues involving
them
1. Recommendations
Improvements 12. What other things can we do to improve the SwimSafe program
and better protect children from drowning?
13. Would you recommend SwimSafe to parents in your
community?
a. Why or Why not?
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SWIMSAFE OBSERVATIONS
Note Taker Initials Village / Site
Date
Specific observations
Item Description Satisfactory (Yes/No)
Use of pond by local
people
CSI Training outfits
Student outfits
Behaviour and
responses of students
CSI Supervision of
students
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Item Description Satisfactory (Yes/No)
CSI instructions to
students
CSI relationship with
students
Other observations
Time Description Actor
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Time Description Actor
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