Willingness to pay of the notability for local leadership empowerment in the ngweshe chiefdom

Chapter two: METHODOLOGY

Ranged as second chapter of this work, the research methodology presents the foundation of the research issues. That is, the universe is defined in advance, follows techniques employed to collect data, presentation of the research questionnaire, variable measure and methods used to transform them into meaningful outcomes.

I. DEFINITION OF THE POPULATION

Aiming at assessing willingness to pay of the notability for local leadership empowerment in rural areas, this research concerns only the «notables» living in town but originating from the rural Chiefdom of Ngweshe. Thus, as already stated above, is defined for the purpose as member of the research universe, it means as notable, every male or female individual recognized as famous or distinctive in their profession through their knowhow and good manners, originating from Ngweshe chiefdom, at least eighteen years old and residing in one of the communes of Bukavu on September 1^st, 2019.

This manner of descripting the population has as advantage to avoid including periodically arriving chiefdom folks. It is likely about maximizing the chance to meet those who can will to participate to the scheme.

II. SAMPLING TECHNIQUE AND DATA COLLECTION

The research will apply data collected on a sample of 180 notables issued from Ngweshe. Two techniques will allow realizing that step given as follows:

Ø A qualitative survey using the interview technique

Ø A Snowball technique

II.1.The qualitative technique

As above-mentioned, the research universe includes notables living in Bukavu town. The interview then will be applied to identify the structure of contributions of notables towards their chiefdom of origin. Qualitative data collection refers to Abdullah and Jeanty (2011) requirements relative to setting hypothetical scenarios of WTP amounts. The interview has taken five days that to say from August 18 to August 26, 2019. In its core fulfillment, it was done since it was discovered that no supplementary information was brought by additional respondents accordingly to the semantic saturation criterion^7(*). Thus, 20 respondents selected from Ibanda, Kadutu and Bagira were interviewed. Seven questions were directly asked to notables about what leaders think about local leadership in their chiefdom, who are those leaders, what do they think about their work, their thoughts regarding leaders' contribution for local development, how do they think to help local leaders, who should support them and lastly whether mutuality can help them.

II.2. The snowball technique

The technique is mainly chosen because it is quite difficult to identify among several individuals those emerging from the Chiefdom of Ngweshe. Additionally, meeting notable remains very difficult regarding their availability and location. A chain-referral-sample or respondent-driven technique is suggested by Etikan et al. (2015) in case of a hidden population. The city is diversified and thus the research wants to avoid resulting errors of respondent selection what can since misshape the research outcomes. Thereby, the first questioned subject shall be a surely identified individual based on information provided by aNgweshe native lecturer. A deep verification of their identity shall be verified through a qualitative talk realized on the subject to be insured that he is exactly a rural citizen who currently is living in Bukavu. To do so, a five minutes speech is undertaken in the Mashi language which is the local language in the native chiefdom. In addition, some cultural values were discussed to assess whether he is well accustomed to traditional living style (a specific feature of countryside originals).

* ⁷Patrick ROBO (1995) deems the existence of saturation since collected data and their analysis don't provide any additional information in the under way research.