This is the paper I produced together with Anna for my masters.
Initially, we had decided in Bangkok airport that we wanted to write our
masters together, and that we wanted to go someplace nice. Costa Rica fitted
the description, and one of us remembered that a Danish NGO (Nepenthes) had made a project in the Eastern
part of the country. That made us wonder how the project was doing now the
money had stopped pouring in.
We talked to our councilor, and he was very interested in getting us to
do a post-project evaluation (PPE) as not that many PPE's have been made.
Nepenthes was initially very kind, and supplied us with a ton of
information, all in Spanish. So I started Spanish class in order to brush up on
my rather meager Spanish skills. The more we dug, the more questions we came up
with, and so we went to Costa Rica for three months in order to get some
answers to at least some of the questions.
The subsequent report answers some, but unfortunately not all of our
questions
If you want to read the report, go here
If you want to read from the abbreviated diary/description from life in
Costa Rica on fieldwork, go here