Wow

What a week. The Principal Investigators from U. Capetown arrived Wednesday and left this morning. We trained the fieldworkers, drivers, supervisors and data typists Thursday and Friday.

I have 12 fieldworkers (they carry out the interviews) in two teams of six, each with one supervisor and one driver. They will go to the 21 remote villages and interview every household. Sound simple? The logistics of this endeavor are so complex that at times I don't know how it will ever happen at all, nevermind on time and under budget. We need to collect 13,000 interviews in just 13 weeks!

I suppose the way to look at this is that I am learning how be an effective manager. Which is nice. But damn it can be frustrating sometimes.