Using
Problem
Solving
Techniques


Use publicity of project


Let them compare volumes
of good and bad grain


 Compare weights of goodandbadgrain
 Shockihusbandwith infestedgrain
 Keep showing them condition of grain every few weeks
 Get husband to a demo
 Leave infestedgrain in agloass jar
 Workout financialsavings





The next task is to review what has been produced and select the most
likely and workable suggestions.
Of the list produced by the group, the following ideas might be useful:
 give them the leaflets on maize loss produced by the
 Project;
 show them the damage being done to maize either left
 to dry in the shamba or being stored in unsatisfactory
 conditions;


Chapter 10


 "OK. We seem to have identified two main problems-how to
 persuade your husbands that they are in fact losing a lot of
 their maize after harvesting; and how to tackle the issue of
 expenses related to making any improvements. Let's deal
 with the question of loss first. And let's see how many ideas
 we can come up with that would help us in convincing them.
 Just shout them out, and I will write them up on the paper.
 It doesn't matter how impractical the idea may seem-let's
 try to fill the paper! Then when we have collected them, we
 can have a good look at them to see which ones we might be
 able to use."
The process might be slow at first, but when one or two participants
have made suggestions, the pace quickens as the members build on,
each other's ideas-and begin to enjoy themselves in coming up
with imaginative and sometimes bizarre suggestions.
The result of such a pooling could look like this: