Part 1: Introductory
1. Can you tell me about your role in local/state government? 2. Do you have any experience working with sanitation systems?
a. Can you tell me more about that? b. Can we talk about A first?
c. Can you tell me about how it worked? d. Did you have any interactions with it? e. Did you play any role in making this work? f. Did you play a role in the design of it?
3. Can you talk about the current sanitation system you use at home? 4. Can you talk about the town’s system
Part 2: The Interviewer will describe the system and shows the diagram.
Diagram:
Would you like to comment on this?
Part 3: Specific Questions
1. Are you a homeowner?
2. Would you want this to be in your home? a. Can you tell me more?
3. What, if anything, would it take for you to add this your property? 4. Compared to what’s out there, how, if at all, is this better?
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6. Do you see this as something that could be used by people in general? a. Where?
7. If you were to talk about this with your colleagues, what kinds of things would you talk about?
8. Would you describe this system as “feasible”?
9. What, if anything, would you change about the system?
a. Are there any parts or components that you see as problematic? i. Commode
ii. Storage
iii. Collection and transport iv. Processing
10.What do you think the planning phase would look like for a system like this? a. Do you think it would meet requirements?
b. What problems do you think could arise? 11.Do you consider this a marketable system?
a. Could you see other local government entities accepting this system? 12.What do you think the implementation phase would look like?
a. Do you think it would meet permit/regulatory approval? i. Can you tell me more?
ii. What, if anything, would need to change? b. What problems do you think could arise?
13.What do think about the financial viability?
a. Would it be affordable at the government level? b. What about the household level?
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14.Is there anything else that would get in the way of it being implemented? 15.Is there something else you’d like to talk about that we haven’t addressed?
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