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Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

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This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

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Perceptions and practices of monitoring and evaluation: international NGO experiences in Ethiopia

01/08/2002

17 pages long

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This article explores attempts by eight UK-based international NGOs currently engaged in rural development interventions in Ethiopia to employ monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems as a means of strengthening accountability and institutional learning. Premised on the conviction that such NGOs comprise loose coalitions of interest groups at different organisational levels within them, the study explores […]

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Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

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This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

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The struggle for organisational change: how the ActionAid Accountability, Learning and Planning System emerged

01/08/2002

12 pages long

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Change is driven not only by good ideas, but also by disagreement and frustration. This article takes the reader through a selective organisational history of the British NGO ActionAid from 1998 to 2001, looking at events and changes that had a bearing on the introduction and initial impact of the agency’s new accountability system. Systematic […]

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Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

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Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

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Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico

01/08/2001

8 pages long

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Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestry – its plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east […]

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Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation

01/07/2001

11 pages long

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Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation

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This article argues for the need to conduct monitoring and evaluation in health programmes and advocacy in a gender-sensitive way, to ensure that interventions fulfil their goal of improving public health, have a beneficial impact on women and on gender relations, and contribute towards human health and poverty eradication. This article is hosted by our […]

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Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project

01/08/2000

17 pages long

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The question of how development agencies should assess their impact has no simple answers and so is often either unasked, or is framed in terms that privilege time-bound and quantitative findings. Describing a council estate neighbourhood project in the UK, the author probes the understandings and perceptions of different stakeholders concerning what they believe has […]

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The need for reliable systems: gendered work in Oxfam’s Uganda programme

01/02/1999

4 pages long

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This paper looks at a Gender Review conducted for Oxfam GB of their programme in Uganda. The Review found that the programme lacked a coherent strategy and gender work was invariably considered an add-on rather than an integrated part of development planning. They advocate developing a strategy for social change, including monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, […]

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The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation

01/11/1997

8 pages long

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Based on ‘The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation’. The author describes and assesses the use of matrix-scoring as a participatory evaluation tool. Often used as part of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) arsenal of tools, here the author applies it specifically to evaluating the performance of the European Community/European […]

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