Steps

Following introductions, facilitators worked with laborers to identify their sources of labor work. If done, the Seasonal Calendar is a helpful tool for identifying types of labor sold in a community.

Working through each type of labor sold, the research team facilitated a discussion around:

• What work is done by men? By women? By children? By both men and women? Individually? In groups?
  • Probe→ What is the reason for these divisions?
• When are they paid and in what form? What is the rate? Are there any other benefits? Wages or contract? Is it different between men and women?
  • Probe→ What happens if you do not finish the required amount?
• What is the process or steps involved in this type of work and how long does each step take? (i.e. preparing soil, weeding, plowing, sowing, etc.)
• Who hires you for this arrangement?
  • Probe→ If it is a landlord, how much land does he own? If the landlord is absentee, what are the arrangements for hiring, supervision, payment?

Throughout the discussion, the crops and their processes were laid out on idea cards in a matrix, outlining what work is done by women versus men, as well as the wages and benefits for each type of work:

 

	Cane			Maize			Rice
	Men	Women	Groups	Men	Women	Groups	Men	Women	Groups
Digging
Fertilizer
Seeding/Transplant
Weeding Daily wage Contract per area
Harvesting

 
The facilitators then ask: how long have you been selling labor in each crop listed? For those who have sold labor for the last 10 years, when was the last time that the rates had changed? Which year? And from what amount?

Following the discussion, given the sensitivity of such issues, teams reassured participants of the confidentiality of this information and assured participants that the information would only be used to inform pro-poor programming.