Heffernan, Claire

Pro-poor decision making depends on an understanding of the complexities and inter-relationships between household livelihood, demographic, and economic factors. This article describes the design and implementation of the Poverty Assessor, a software programme to assist practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in visualising the direct impacts on poverty of specific livelihood factors and events among populations […]

Development research has responded to a number of charges over the past few decades. For example, when traditional research was accused of being ‘top-down’;, the response was participatory research, linking the ‘receptors’; to the generators of research. As participatory processes were recognised as producing limited outcomes, the demand-led agenda was born. In response to the […]