Practice question · Put in order
Order the phases of a well-run applied-anthropology project.
- Ethnographic groundwork: listen, map practices and stakeholders
- Adapt and scale what actually worked
- Evaluate honestly, including the failures
- Pilot on a small scale
- Co-design the intervention with the community
Hints
- Listening has to come before designing anything.
- Scaling up can only follow evaluation.
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- Ethnographic groundwork: listen, map practices and stakeholders
- Co-design the intervention with the community
- Pilot on a small scale
- Evaluate honestly, including the failures
- Adapt and scale what actually worked
Why
Listen → co-design → pilot → evaluate → scale. Every inverted version of this sequence — design in the capital, announce, build, leave — has its own graveyard of rusting pumps.
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