This is particularly challenging in disasters

• Community interaction revealing to everyone

• Caribbean workshop on events, rainfall, and forecasts

  • Worst storms were the ones that hit on holidays, not necessarily the strongest storms
  • Focus group holiday outcome was verified with research
  • Massive implications for disaster preparedness and planning
• But we can only do so many focus groups…
• So, we spent a lot of time and money on technology to help automate
• Decades of work in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America have yielded new approaches, tools
  • Quantitative hybrid in-person/computerized focus groups became possible at large-scale (many thousands of meetings, millions of people served)

Farmers themselves generated better satellite flood and drought models than ever designed before.