   Feminist Ethnography entails living with, interviewing, and observing a group of people to describe their way of life or the context of a social phenomenon. This method looks at the political, economic, social, and cultural features of the community. Observation and participant observation is used to collect data on behavior and events, physical/material aspects of social life; ranges from complete observer to complete participant observation; and is used to complement and validate data from interviews and secondary data. Focus group discussion (FGD) is a dynamic, open, and democratic manner of surfacing concerns of a group of participants with a moderator facilitating consciousness-raising and solidarity among women and for women to speak up, express themselves, and share their experiences. This serves as a social gathering for women and an opportunity to be away from their daily concerns. Feminist Research Ethics This comprises a set of principles that will guide the conduct of feminist researchers in relation to research participants, funding agencies, their institutions, other researchers, and the reader in order to produce responsible accountable, and self-reflexive research. Some of these principles highlighted include: (1) Benefits and reciprocity which assumes that researches serve the interests of the most oppressed groups in terms of “breaking their silence” and giving back through services or materials (2) Informed consent or the right to be asked for consent to participate in the research and to be informed about the research (3) Privacy or the right to determine when, how, and to what extent information is shared with or withheld from others (4) Confidentiality in that private data identifying the subjects will not be reported without their consent (5) Establishment of non-hierarchical relationships (6) Commitment to the liberatory goal of feminist research which should produce knowledge that can alter oppressive and exploitative conditions in society (7) Self-reflexivity or the awareness of how our gender, class, religion, etc. affect the entire research process (8) Ethics in processing data in which the researcher has sole access to and total control over the tapes and transcripts (9) Politics and hierarchy in the institution: recognize the invisible work of other contributors to the research See Annex 3.4 for the Presentation Slides 24