Mollah, Tanjinul Hoque
Shishir, Sharmin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4094-7242
Ullah, Wahid
Nihei, Takaaki
Article History
Received: 21 November 2017
Accepted: 10 October 2018
First Online: 20 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: This study was endorsed by the department of Regional Sciences in the Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan, with all the necessary authorizations needed for research. All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. There is no ethics committee in Hokkaido University to approve questionnaires. However, doctoral course supervisor has approved the questionnaire for field survey. The study does not involve any experiment on humans and animals. A verbal consent was given by the university as well as the NGOs and the local community to conduct our research. Prior to the start of the research activities, the project and team leader visited the study area. We explained research activities and its purpose and later, verbally asked the villagers for their agreement to those activities. At the beginning of each fieldwork, we again held a community meeting with the villagers to introduce our research team, study objectives and to ask the community for permission to start our research activities. In these meetings, we explained the whole agenda of our visit. We explained the scope of each activity. Prior to starting each focused group discussion, key informant interview and household survey, we re-explained to the participants the aim of the activity, how they were selected, voice recordings and how we were going to use the data we collect. All participants were asked to give their verbal consent before we proceed with the interview. We also collected personal and demographic information from participants, but it is only used for academic purpose in this study.