Questionnaire for Focus Group Discussion

Questionnaire for Focus Group Discussion

Village:

Union:

District:

Livelihood

Family
Upper class
Middle class
Lower class

1.1. What changes have occurred in livelihood of your family in last 40 years?

1.2. How many livelihoods were there and what were these?

1.3. What did your ancestors (father, grandfather) do?

1.4. What were your occupation before and what are you doing now?

1.5 What are the common problems of this village in perspective of livelihood which are not related to environment and climate change?

No / Livelihood / Common problems

2.1. What are the common problems of the people in this village? (Except Environment)………….

2.2. Have the villagers ever thought of migration to solve any of these problems?

2.3. What kind of changes has taken place in the climate in this area over the last 40 years? What have you heard from your parents, grandparents and neighbours?

2.4. Which was the worst natural calamity people have ever seen and/or faced in their life? (Area specific)

3. The chronological events occurred due to climate change in the past:

No / Name of the incidents / Year / Time/Month / Death incidentals / Damage of individual property / Losses of government /non-government infrastructure

3.1. We heard about workable indigenous knowledge with regard to weather forecasting? What were/ are those?

3.2. Does indigenous knowledge work now? (Y/N)

3.3. What sort of thing you find different from indigenous knowledge?

4. What is the major climate change induced events the upper/middle/lower class family faces now?

No / Family / Impacts/Result and responses
Upper class
Middle class
Lower class

4.1. Generally what sort of natural calamities people face?

Please explain the variability of climate change

Rainfall

Quantity/Degree/intensity
Duration
Present intense months
Past intense months
Problems faced in agriculture production/cultivation
Changes needed to bring in cultivation
Problems faced in other occupation except agriculture
What steps have you taken deal with this problem

Warming

Drought

Cyclone

Flood

River Bank Erosion

4.2. Can you rate people's current situation with regards to your resources to carry out different livelihood activities? (go through different livelihood responses).

4.3. Please rate how threatening the following problems are to the sustainability of people's livelihoods:

Problems / Not at all threatening (1) / Little threatening(2) / Threatening (3) / Threatening to a great extent (4) / Extremely Threatening (5)
Flooding
Drought
Rainfall
Increased temperature
River bank erosion
Water stress of plants
Salinization of water resources
Salinization of soil
Increased pests
Increased disease load
Erosion of soil

4.4. If need be, please elaborate how people's livelihood has been affected by rainfall/warming/ drought/ cyclone/ river bank erosion?

4.5. Please rate how likely people think the following problems are to occur in the next 10, 20, 30, 50 years:

Problems / Not at all (1) / Sometimes
(2) / (3) Regular Intervals / (4) Frequent / All the time
(5)
Crop failure due to flooding
Cop failure due to drought
Complete salinity of water resources
Complete salinity of soil
Loss of livelihood potential due to loss of land to erosion
Inability of getting produce to market due to flooding

4.6. What are the problems people face to sustain livelihood?

4.7. What changes people have taken so far in their livelihood due to climate change induced events?

Changes of job: temporary/ permanent
Profit/ loss due to change in occupation
Increase capacity of occupation by following adaptation strategy
What kind of adaptation strategy you follow
How effective are they (adaptation strategy)
How costly (economic and social) are they?

5. What are the general problems people face in this locality due to climate change induced events?

Scarcity of drinking water
Insecurity of women
Irregular or stagnated academic curriculum
in educational institutions
Water logging
Intensification or spread of diseases
Infrastructural damage
Others

6. What are the causes of people's migration from this area? How migration has been influenced by climatic events?