Every piece of curated knowledge sits in one bucket. The buckets follow the draft Stage 0 cheat sheet and may change as the team reviews them.
The areas a Stage 0 study must cover. All evidence should be broken down by gender, income level and age.
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Methods, community involvement, ethics, and what funders must do to make room for the work.
Desk review, key informant interviews, focus groups, surveys, observation, diaries, cognitive interviewing, rapid assessments. One file per method, with when to use it and its limits
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Community involvement, participatory principles, co-design, power and consent, compensation of participants
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Consent, privacy, data handling in research, safeguarding during fieldwork
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What to ask for in proposals, how to right-size budgets and timelines, phased and flexible funding, go/no-go points, red flags in proposals
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The "minimum viable research" route with commercial or research AI tools (Perplexity, Elicit and so on), its caveats, and how to check AI output
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Definitions (formative vs design research, Stage 0), principles, why it matters, the "three users is not formative research" type of misconception
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