Post by Basudev_ on Mar 17, 2017 19:01:08 GMT
Thanks for bringing this important issue up. This is always a challenge for me whenever I go to the field, meet and talk to people, mess with them and try to extract knowledge and information as much as I can. Many a times, I have noticed people trying hard to let their needs be heard, instead of what I really want to know. The more I try to bring back the conversation the more influenced answers I get. It is a bitter truth that for the marginal people living in the suburbs and remote area in the developing countries like Nepal might not represent a bigger population or in-other words personal needs might be different then the community or the country or the regional need as envisioned by a development practitioner or a policy maker or a researcher. Clean Cookstove is a globally envisioned urgent need that might not have the same intensity of need of a family because the family has the needs ranked differently depending on the situation. The 2015 Earthquake in Nepal was a disaster that affected more than 8 Million people. The affected households have a list of needs of which Cookstove is one but certainly not the number one need because food shelter and clothing comes before any other subsidiary needs. Traditionally cooking is not a big issue as stones or bricks are just enough to meet their cooking needs. Saying so, a health worker or air pollution concerned may not be in a position to completely divert their work to their priority needs. In order to balance our concerns and people’s needs, package of complimentary needs are seen to be much more effective and that is possible only by co-working with a consortium of people with different concerns.