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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?


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

END

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SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE

Children


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?

END



SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE

Community Swimming Instructors (CSIs)


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)


the program?


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?



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?

END



SWIMSAFE FOCUS GROUP GUIDE – GENDER EVALUATION



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?


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?


Support 7. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs?



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?



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?


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




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?



SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE – GENDER EVALUTION



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?




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,



Support 10. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs by

the program?





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?


family?


making?

Practices and

participation

25. Can you tell me about any other jobs you do to earn an income?


more suited to men than women?

a. Why?


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?


Community

involvement




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?



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







SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE

Children


Village / Site

Age

Gender

1. Gender

Knowledge, beliefs,

perceptions



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?

END






Village / Site

Gender

Age

Education

Occupation

1. Recruitment



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)


the program?



Role in decision

making

4. Can you describe to me how decisions are made in your family?


family?


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


Community

involvement




3. Engagement with parents

Parent meetings 10. Can you describe the types of meetings you have with parents?

a. Probe



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?



END




HQ Staff


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?


2. Do you think men or women are more suited to be Supervisors, or

do you think they are equally suited?


3. Do you think male CSIs are treated differently to female CSIs?


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?


END




Parents of drop out children


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?



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?



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?

END



SWIMSAFEINTERVIEW GUIDE

Parents of graduated and enrolled children


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?



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?



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,



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?



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

END




Parents of unenrolled/unregistered children


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?



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?

END




Program Coordinator / Area Coordinator / Field Manager


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?


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

END




Supervisors


Village / Site

Gender

Age

Education

Occupation


Gender 1. Do you think men or women are more suited to be CSIs, or do you

think they are equally suited?


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?


4. Do you think men or women are more suited to be swim trainers,



5. Do you think male CSIs would be treated differently to female

CSIs?


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?



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





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?

END



SWIMSAFE INTERVIEW GUIDE – PHASE 2

Teachers


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?



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

END




Trainers


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?

END




Village Injury Prevention Committee


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?


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


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




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?

END



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



Item Description Satisfactory (Yes/No)

CSI instructions to

students

CSI relationship with

students

Other observations

Time Description Actor



Time Description Actor



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