- Participatory sessions.
- Practical learning and visual examples.
- No mathematical formulae but how to interpret findings and understand if something is statistically significant.
- Concepts kept simple to ensure approaches can be passed to staff having limited theoretical knowledge.
- Recognition that resource poor environments are frequently also information poor, so methods are adapted to real-world constraints, yet kept within scientifically acceptable bounds.
- The skills to know what questions to ask of consultants in an interview if they are unable to conduct the evaluation themselves.