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Piassa (Gedam/Datsun sefer) Neighborhood Design questionnaire

Name of Interviewer:

Names of interviewee:

1. Profile

1.1. House hold profile

House number: Tenure type:

Head of household:

Period of stay:

Family size: Male _________ Female ________

Family monthly expenditure __________

Food ______ House rent __________ Utilities __________ School fee _________ Transport __________

Family income _____________________________

Background

Where did you come from before you started residing in this neighborhood? What was your reason to move to this neighborhood?

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Name
1.2.
Personal profile

Relationship in
the HH

Gender
Year of birth

Marital status

Disability

Income /

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Kind of
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(full or part
time)

Special Skills

Job location

Transportation
to work

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2. Existing situation

2.1. Physical situation of house

Criteria 1. Structural condition 2. Wall condition 3.roof condition 4.floor condition is to be considered

Housing condition: good , average , poor

Construction material:

Wall, floor, roof, ceiling, fence, pavement,

2.2. House hold space usage graphic/ sketch/ mapping (House and compound)
2.2.1 Space
2.2.2 Activity (plan, section & Elevation if it is required)

2.2.3 Do you prefer your economic activity to be located within your household? Yes No why?

2.2.4 Meaning (space and activity)

Provide sketches

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2.3. Physical Infrastructure

2.3.1. Source of energy:

Cooking: hydro Electric generator charcoal kerosene fire wood animal dung other
Light: hydro Electric generator candle kerosene fire wood biogas Other
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2.3.2. Drinking Water supply: Private communal/compound public spring water river
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Other water supply: Private communal/compound public spring water river other______________________________________

2.3.3. Solid waste disposal system: Door to door collection private other _____________________________________________________
2.3.4. Gray water disposal system: on the road storm water ditch cesspool septic tank other ____________________________________
2.3.5. Black water disposal: on the road storm water ditch cesspool septic tank other
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2.4. Services used by the household: KG, primary school, secondary school, Market, Local market, Kiosk, Church, Mosque, Sport field, Youth, women
center, others

Service Location Means of transport Name of service Frequency of visit Remark

Market
Grinding mill
Church
Hospital

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2.5. Social interaction

2.5.1. Idir Ekub Mahiber other _ __________________________________________________.

2.5.2. What is the basis for your social interaction? How does the social tie happen?
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2.5.3. How do you use, maintain and manage your common facilities? (Open space, common kitchen, common toilet, drainage, fence, others,
others)
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2.5.4. Do you have a communal space that you use for holidays and other ceremonies: yes No
If yes, what are they and where do you celebrate them?
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2.5.5. What benefits do you get from your social interactions?
(Money loan, financial assistance, social support, material and goods exchange, emotional support, information exchange, resource
sharing and others)
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2.5.6. How do you resolve your social conflicts? (Household, Neighbors) Who are involved, elders, kebele, police, others?

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2.5.7. Does your family have a role in the neighborhood? Yes No how? ________________________________________________________
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2.5.8. Do you have a say on development activities of the government that occur in your neighborhood? Yes No how?
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2.6. Safety and security

2.6.1. Has any crime been committed against you in the neighborhood? Yes No

If yes describe:
What? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.6.2. Has any crime been committed against people you know in the neighborhood? Yes No
If yes describe _________________________________________________
What?________________________________________________________
Where? ________________________________
When? ________________________________
Why? ________________________________

2.6.3. Is there sufficient vehicular access to your neighborhood? Yes no

2.6.4. What is your feeling towards the absence or presence of vehicular access to your house? (Advantage and disadvantage to you)

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2.6.5. How do you describe the vehicle traffic movement in your neighborhood in relation with the safety of your children and others?
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2.6.6. What safety issues do you have in your neighborhood? (Fire, burns, flood, land slide, cracks, falling, electrocution, house collapse, health
problems,)
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2.7. Environment and Green space

2.7.1. Do you have green space in your neighborhood? Yes No

If No, Why? _
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2.7.2. Do you have a habit of growing plants? Yes No . If No, Why?

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2.7.3. If the environment is convenient would you like to grow plants? Yes No . If No, Why

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2.7.4. What is the cause of pollution in your neighborhood?
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2.7.5. Do you think you contribute to the environmental protection? Yes No , how? (State if there is existing practice)
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2.8. Economic situation
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2.8.1. What do you do for a living?
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2.8.2. Type of employment?

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Formal Informal Government Private self permanent part time

other_________________________________________________
2.8.3. What other source of income do you have?
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2.9. Description
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2.9.1. What different activities exist in your neighborhood? Social, economic, and physical settings (Elaborate in terms of relations between
neighbors, Exchange of goods, and the houses)
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3. Redevelopment

3.1. Perception towards the redevelopment

3.1.1. How do you understand housing redevelopment?
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3.1.2. How do you inter relate redevelopment with your current economic status?
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3.1.3. How do you compare your neighborhood with other already redeveloped neighborhoods?
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3.1.4. Which neighborhood in Addis Ababa is a good example of redevelopment to you and why?
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3.1.5. What is your idea of urban area? What do you think it includes? Compared to rural areas.
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3.1.6. Do you prefer to stay in a single story or multiple story building?
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3.2. Participation

3.2.1. Have you heard about the redevelopment plan of gedam/datsun sefer neighborhood? Yes No If yes, how did you receive the
information? How many times were you informed? ______ ________________ Who informed you? __________________________
When were you informed? ________________________________ Where were you informed? ___________________________ __
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3.2.2. Describe the information you have about the redevelopment?
The place is going to be redeveloped and we are in formed to be ready. ________________________________________________________________

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3.2.3. Are you willing to participate in the redevelopment of your neighborhood? Yes No . If yes, how do you describe your
contribution?
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3.2.4. Did you get a chance to express your opinion on the redevelopment? Yes No If yes, how?
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3.2.5. If your suggestion is not implemented, what measures can you take?
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3.3. Aspiration

3.3.1. Aspiration for the individual /household

3.3.1.1. How do you expect your life to change because of the redevelopment? Lively hood, physical and social
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3.3.1.2. What kind of redevelopment method do you want to be implemented in your neighborhood?
(To be resettled on site (mean while wait in temporary shelter) __, relocate to another condominium outside the site

(periphery) (inner city) plot (periphery) (inner city) kebele

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Why?
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3.3.1.3. What type of house do you desire after the redevelopment? (Plot condominium Kebele )
why?
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3.3.1.4. How many bedrooms do you need? _________________ ___________________________________.
why? ___ ______________________________________________

Aspiration for the neighborhood

3.3.1.5. What kind of infrastructure do you want the neighborhood to contain? What kind of house (stories), road, walkway, drainage,
Vendors on the street, street side resting and activity spaces, seats, play grounds, plaza
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3.3.1.6. What kind of people do you want to live in your neighborhood? Economic status, social profile, gender, age, family size,
religious profile, others
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3.3.1.7. What kind of social service do you want your neighborhood to contain?
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3.4. Affordability

3.4.1. Can you afford the house type that you chose on part 3.3.1.3? Yes No
If yes, how? _____________________________________________
If no, why? ____________________________________________________________________________

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3.4.2. How can you accommodate an unexpected increase on the initial

Payment? __ __________________________________________________________________

3.4.3. Are you registered in the current government housing program for housing opportunity? Yes no . If yes, what type?
10/90____20/80_____40/60. If no why? ,_____ ___________________________________________

3.4.4. Are you following through the condominium saving scheme? Yes no N.A.

3.4.5. Do you have a different saving mechanism? Yes No . If yes, How much? ____________________

4. History
4.1. Tell us your life in relation to Piassa (Gedam/datsun Sefer)? What major changes and incidents did you experience at this neighborhood?

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4.2. Is there any historical significance attached to the neighborhood? Like (Ras mekonen dildiy, ampire cinema, including open space roads
and others)

Yes No If yes, what are they? Why do you think this heritage is significant? ___________________________________.

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4.3. Do you want these historical elements to be incorporated in the future development? Yes No If yes, Why?

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