CASE STUDY WRITING

Tools for mapping good practice on integrated

development programme
 Case study
 A case study is an intensive study of a
person, single group, incident, organization,
or community.
 A case study is a problem or situation which

needs to be solved or improved/changed.

Two types:
1. Factual

2. Fictional (not applicable for

development activities)
Why case study
 Capture data/ information against qualitative
indicators
 To learn
 What changes occurred and how
 Why change occurs in specific ways
 What does the changes mean
 How people deal with change
 People’s experiences, dreams and obstacles for
future planning
Steps for writing case study
 Issue selection (change or potential to change in human
life/ livelihood/behavior )

 Information collection
 Authenticity check
 Writing case study
 Attach relevant picture with caption
How to write case study, a prototype
 Define the purpose and precise information needs
 Decide how you are going to select the subject

 Decide how you will obtain the information

 Develop the question checklist that will only guide the

information collection, but during information collection process, always try to
collect relevant customized human touchy information out of the checklist
 Repeat the discussions with enough frequency to allow an up-to-
date picture of changing conditions (either positive or negative) of the
addressed problem situation
Issue selection
 Is it bring any change in their life & livelihood,
behaviour/habit (positive/negative)?
 Is there any message to teach other?

 Is it new/innovative?

 Does it show proper utilization of local

resources?
 Will it help other to do the same thing?
Case study writing checklist, a
prototype
 What change did it bring in their situation
 Change in which area
 Who did this
 When, duration
 How was the situation before
 What was done to bring the change
 Who was/ were involved in this process
 What benefits/ difficulties did it create
 Future plan based on the benefits/ difficulties
 What did you learn from this
Basic content of case study, a prototype

 Title
 Summary of success or failure (to attract reader create suspense)
 Project initiative: description and main findings
 Impacts/ result (actual and/or potential, positive and/or negative)
 Add also…
 Detailed information of the case
 Quotation(s) by the case or somebody who is part of the
case
 Photograph of the case or related to the case
Making case study attractive
 Short (1 page/500 words), candid
and revealing
 Picture

 Catchy title

 Use of dialects
Tips for writing case study
DOs
 Keep your audience in Don’t Do
 Difficult/
mind
 Openings uncommon words
 Jargon/terminology
 Present situations and
 Unreal information
scenes without any
attempt at analysis  Long sentence
 Follow logical order

 Provide relevant details

 Use as much dialogue as

possible
 Endings
THANK YOU
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