Using a case study research design, the study draws on multiple qualitative methods to gather evidence including: document review, focus group discussions, flood victims' interviews, institutional consultation and field observation.
The site also interviews institutional investors and analysts, and the interviews can be heard as a series of podcasts.
One-third of the interviewed institutional caregivers reported working in the institutions without a salary (32.5%).
Using a longitudinal phenomenological study design, FBNNOGC program and institutional staff were interviewed over three years at ten time points.
This has involved visiting some 60 commercial or institutional buildings worldwide, interviewing the designers, and in most cases personally conducting a questionnaire survey of the users covering operational, thermal, lighting, noise, control and satisfaction issues.
Although international variation can be explained through different national institutional arrangements, all interviews pointed out that for individual projects, agency characteristics such as leadership skills, pro-environmental attitudes and management skills play a vital role.
Data collection methods included documents review, interviews with key informants, institutional mapping, SWOT analysis, interviews, checklists and focus group discussions.
All covered representative sample communities and involved household interviews, focus group discussions, institutional reviews of health facilities, interviews with service providers and discussions with health authorities.
The analysis is based upon observations, interviews and institutional materials gathered by the author in the 1960's, 1970,s and 1980's and from interviews, reports and institutional data currently available on each case.
Content analysis of interviews and institutional documents was used to identify the companies' RDP activities.
