Design Tool: Sample Formative Research Protocol

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“A360 gets you to the heart of the community. Instead of respondents coming to you to tell you what they think you want to hear, it’s about going to the community, seeing the world through their eyes based on their first-hand experiences.” — Athumani Haruni, Regional Operations Manager - Rukwa region, TanzaniaThis resource is an example of the protocols from A360’s research for design work — in this case, representative of our work in Ethiopia. We used this process in Nigeria as well.

To ensure ethics review and approval for our research for design work in-country. Our research work generated insights into adolescents’ lives that guided the development of prototypes for supporting adolescent girls to voluntarily access modern contraception.

This could serve as a blueprint for formative research for design with youth in similar contexts.