Annex II
KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 1:
GENERAL

1. General Social Characteristics

1.1 What are the past positive and/or negative experiences concerning fish farming?

1.2 What are the systems for inheritance (e.g., land?)

1.3 Are there possibilities/cases examples of women owning fish ponds within male-headed households?

1.4 What are the ways and means of obtaining land for fish farming? Are there any special considerations to be borne in mind for women's rights to land use?

1.5 What is the general status of people engaged in fish farming during the 1960s–70s, 1980s and during recent years? (Educational attainment/size of agricultural holdings/location/cropping pattern)

1.6 Extent and characteristics of female-headed households

1.7 Are there any groups or formal/informal organizations in the community ? Are there any specific groups for women in the community?

1.8 Ongoing and planned development activities by Government organizations/NGOs/international organizations.

1.9 Is there any in-/out- migration within and between districts?

1.10 Characteristics of cooperative labour (Ushirika/Kushirikiana)

• purpose

• time/duration/season

• number and types of people

• relationship

• compensation

1.11 Seasonal availability of water

1.12 How does the proposed regulation to limit uses of water within one km from the water source affect fish farming?

2. Activity profile

3. Access and control profile

4. Food and nutrition stress calender

4.1 Who eats fish and other animal protein products?

• weaning children

• children aged 0–5

• young boys/girls

• pregnant/lactating mothers

• adult men

• adult women

• elders

4.2 Preferred types of fish for home consumption

4.3 Preferred types of fish for sale

4.4 Availability of fish from the lake, marketing and distribution of fish, seasonality of fish availability

4.5 Preference of animal protein products

4.6 Is fish bartered with commodities? What are the types of commodities and equivalent value?

4.7 Occasions of eating fish and other animal protein products

KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 2:
FISH FARMING EXTENSION

1. Number of fish farming extensionists by districts. Number of male and female staff.

2. What types of agricultural extension services are used in the region?

3. To what extent is the extension information passed from farmer to farmer?

4. What do fish farming extensionists think are the conditions for the success of fish farming? What are the success criteria?

5. Whom/what kind of farmers do you think should be targeted for achieving the best results from fish farming?

6. Do fish farming extensionists think both men and women should have equal access to fish farming?

   If yes, how does one achieve this?

   If not, why not?

7. Whom do fish farming extensionists contact during their extension visits?

8. What do fish farming extensionists do during the visits?

9. Constraints of male/female extensionists to reach male/female fish farmers

KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 3:
FISH FARMING HOUSEHOLDS

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

1. How and from whom did you learn about fish farming? Are there any differences between male pond owners and female pond owners?

2. How and from whom did you know how to construct pond? Are there any differences between male pond owners and female pond owners?

3. How and from whom did you learn about pond management? Are there any differences between male ponds owners and female pond owners?

ATTITUDE TOWARDS FISH FARMING

1. Is fish farming a male activity, female activity or an activity for both males and females?

2. Has the community benefitted from fish farming? Why has fish farming not benefited the community?

DIVISION OF LABOUR

1. How did introduction of fish farming change the duties of household members?

2. Activity profile (same as KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 1)

FISH CONSUMPTION

1. Who decides how fish from the ponds is to be eaten? Which type of fish from the ponds are preferred by household members? How are they distributed and consumed by household members?

2. Who decides how fish from the lake (eg. dried fish and Dagaa) is to be eaten? In what form are those fish preferred by household members? How are those fish consumed?

3. Is there any preference concerning relish? Any taboos related to fish? Do pregnant or lactating women eat fish? Is fish utilized as a weaning food?

TO THE FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE FISH FARMING HOUSEHOLDS

1. Is fish farming a male activity, a female activity, or an activity for both sexes?

2. Do you consider that ponds belong to the owner, or to the family?

3. Do you wish to have your own ponds? Why?

4. How and from whom did you learn about fish farming?

5. Did you participate in constructing ponds? How and from whom did you know how to construct ponds?

6. Do you feed and/or fertilize ponds? How and from whom did you learn how to manage fish ponds?

7. Do you do intermittent harvesting? How and from whom did you learn intermittent harvesting?

8. Do you participate in batch harvests of fish?

DECISION-MAKING

1. Who in the household decided to start fish farming?

2. Who took decisions on feeding and fertilizing?

3. When do you decide to do intermittent harvesting?

4. Who makes decision on intermittent harvests?

5. Who makes decisions on disposal of fish from intermittent harvests?

6. When do you decide to carry out batch harvesting?

7. Who takes decisions on batch harvest?

8. Who takes decisions on sale of fingerlings?

9. Who takes decisions on sales/home consumption of fish from batch harvesting?

10. How is the income from fish farming utilized? Who takes decisions on utilization of the income? How is the income distributed among household members?

FISH FARMING PRACTICES

1. How does one dig ponds? What is the equipment used for cleaning, digging, transporting dirt and compacting dike? Who owns and uses the equipment? Do men and women use the same equipment? Do methods of pond digging differ between types of pond ownership/size of ponds etc?

2. How do men and women organize cooperative labour “Ushirika” for pond construction?

3. Where do you sell fish from ponds? To whom do you sell them?

4. Why are ponds smaller/bigger than “standard size”?

5. Why are the ponds drainable?

6. What are the major reasons for not applying fertilizer?

7. What are the major reasons for not providing supplementary feed?

8. What are the major reasons for doing/not doing batch harvest during the recommended time period?

FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS

1. What is the extent of female-headed households(FHH) with fish ponds?

2. How can FHH acquire land for fish ponds?

3. How can FHH have access to cooperative labour, “Ushirika”?

4. How can FHH mobilize fingerlings?

5. Do FHH have access to sufficient farm by-products for manuring and fertilizing ponds?

6. Are FHH contacted by fish farming extentionists and/or agricultural extension workers?

KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 4:
NON FISH FARMING HOUSEHOLDS

1. How do members of non fish farming households perceive fish farming?

2. Is the head of household interested in starting fish farming? If so, how does he/she mobilize:

• labour

• land

• initial capital for hiring labour or purchasing fingerlings

• fish feeds

• fertilizer

• equipment

3. How many times do non-fish farming households eat:

• fresh fish

• dried fish

• dagaa

• other animal protein

4. What is the relationship between fish farming households and non fish farming households?

5. What are+whe opportunities and constraints for fish farming identified by non fish farming households?