Programme Performance Assessment in Results-based Management

Session 3 - Collecting Data by Method: Focus Group

There are two issues in a focus group. First, ensuring that the discussion remains on track and recording the result. Unlike an interview, the structure of a focus group cannot be known in advance, although the issues to be discussed and expressed in the form of questions serve as the focus of the meeting. It is essential to have a facilitator who will occasionally bring the discussion back to the subjects posed.

Second is recording the results of a focus group to ensure the person who is assigned to do that is familiar with the questions that the focus group is expected to address and is careful in taking notes.