LAOS
Training "On the Ground"
November 2006
Father and daughter out for a morning ride along the Mekong River, Savannakhet.
Janet Billson led a research and training group to Laos in November for the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), Tokyo. The group explored the needs for a tourism development project in Savannakhet Province and City, along the Mekong River in southern Laos. The program was co-sponsored by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Participants attended GDI's regular two-day focus group training, and then put their learning to work by interviewing public sector and private sector respondents in two separate focus groups on the following days. In "rapid appraisal" form, we presented our 40-page report to JICA three days later in Vientiane!
Trainees at Work...
Focus group participants and trainees share lunch after their focus group discussion.
Stoking the fires at a textile factory.
GDI Director, Janet Billson, at the textile demonstration site supported by the Japanese Government,
near Savannakhet.
Woman dyeing yarn with indigo, textile factory.