Finishing our research

In the last couple of weeks we have been slowly edging towards finishing our work for CARE. Currently it would seem that some 80% of our first draft has been already written and our intention is to send the first draft to CARE in the last week of April, which is just as well, since that should give them around a month to come back to us with some feedback before we put the finishing touches on the final version of our work. A general sense of satisfaction is felt within the team with much of the work having been already behind us and we will be now anticipating the feedback for CARE in order to make the necessary adjustments. Last comes the presentation that should take place preferably in the first half of June; though that will also depend on the availability of the people at CARE who might happen to be on a field trip around that time.

Indeed, we can be satisfied with the fact that we have roughly stuck to the deadlines that we set out for ourselves in January, as this has left us more than enough time to put everything together and make any changes to the project as it enters its final phase. Since so far we have mainly done individual work on our respective domains, it is clear that we will be doing some editing to the final document in order to give our work a more unified look. Moreover, we are also happy to give our coordinators at CARE enough time to give us feedback – in the end, the document will be of sizeable proportions (over 100 pages) and we are keen to iron out any inconsistencies that may have occurred during the writing. Also it should be noted that we are hoping to see a more consistent feedback from CARE that would clarify some of their previous feedback which has been probably given out without internal coordination on the part of CARE. As mentioned previously, however, there is luckily enough time to do all of this and more thanks to our good and timely work up to now which has really picked up once we have gotten a better understanding of what CARE is looking to get out of this collaboration.

Thus we are looking forward to holding the presentation in June; hopefully it will be a nice occasion to reflect back on all the work we have done and all the meetings we have had to get to the final result. Similarly, we also hope that the presentation will provide a fine conclusion from the perspective of CARE but judging by our communication up to this point, we are fairly confident that the work will be to their liking.