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Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

18/02/2013

17 pages long

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Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

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Participatory approaches for impact assessment are increasingly becoming popular with development organisations for engaging multiple stakeholders. We present our use of participatory impact diagrams as an evaluation tool within a mixed methods impact assessment of several drought-reduction interventions in Kenya. Results show that because men and women have different roles, their experiences of interventions vary. […]

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Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

09/07/2014

18 pages long

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Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

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In this article, we consider three projects implemented by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation: a project in Nepal focusing on capacity building (vocational skills training); a project in Bangladesh focusing on income generation; and a project in Kosovo working on agency – enhancing the voice of citizens in local governance. The article examines how donor requirements for […]

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A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

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A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

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This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Protection: An ALNAP Guide for humanitarian agencies

01/04/2006

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This guide gives essential advice and insights to humanitarian practitioners who are involved in providing safety and protecting vulnerable people in war and disaster. It provides a framework for responsibility and action, which helps clarify conceptual issues and helps humanitarian field workers position themselves vis-a-vis other actors who have overlapping mandates. A practical schema is […]

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Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

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This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

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Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

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What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

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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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On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash-and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India

01/08/2001

16 pages long

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This paper describes the structure and impacts of a development project in Nagaland, India. The project was a large-scale experiment in participatory development that emphasised local technology based on farmer-led testing of agroforestry, where farmers themselves select agroforestry technologies, implement the field tests and assume responsibility for disseminating the results locally. This assessment suggests that […]

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Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work

01/08/2002

12 pages long

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The field of advocacy work is growing and changing rapidly and there is much to be done in exploring not only how best to carry out effective advocacy, but also how best to use the tools of monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment (M&E/IA) to promote learning, improve accountability, and assess the value of advocacy. […]

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The role of Ministries of Finance in implementing the ‘Three Ones’

01/08/2006

6 pages long

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Ministries of Finance (MoF) cannot ignore the major challenge to development posed by HIV/AIDS. To tackle the epidemic a new comprehensive and consistent approach is required: HIV/AIDS must be mainstreamed. This paper investigates the instruments MoF do, can, and should employ in order to be proactive and effective in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS through supporting the implementation […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

18/02/2013

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

Keywords

Overview

Participatory approaches for impact assessment are increasingly becoming popular with development organisations for engaging multiple stakeholders. We present our use of participatory impact diagrams as an evaluation tool within a mixed methods impact assessment of several drought-reduction interventions in Kenya. Results show that because men and women have different roles, their experiences of interventions vary. […]

Journal article

Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

Keywords

Overview

In this article, we consider three projects implemented by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation: a project in Nepal focusing on capacity building (vocational skills training); a project in Bangladesh focusing on income generation; and a project in Kosovo working on agency – enhancing the voice of citizens in local governance. The article examines how donor requirements for […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Protection: An ALNAP Guide for humanitarian agencies

01/04/2006

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This guide gives essential advice and insights to humanitarian practitioners who are involved in providing safety and protecting vulnerable people in war and disaster. It provides a framework for responsibility and action, which helps clarify conceptual issues and helps humanitarian field workers position themselves vis-a-vis other actors who have overlapping mandates. A practical schema is […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

Journal article

Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

Journal article

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

01/02/1999

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

Journal article

On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash-and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India

01/08/2001

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the structure and impacts of a development project in Nagaland, India. The project was a large-scale experiment in participatory development that emphasised local technology based on farmer-led testing of agroforestry, where farmers themselves select agroforestry technologies, implement the field tests and assume responsibility for disseminating the results locally. This assessment suggests that […]

Journal article

Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work

01/08/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The field of advocacy work is growing and changing rapidly and there is much to be done in exploring not only how best to carry out effective advocacy, but also how best to use the tools of monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment (M&E/IA) to promote learning, improve accountability, and assess the value of advocacy. […]

Journal article

The role of Ministries of Finance in implementing the ‘Three Ones’

01/08/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Ministries of Finance (MoF) cannot ignore the major challenge to development posed by HIV/AIDS. To tackle the epidemic a new comprehensive and consistent approach is required: HIV/AIDS must be mainstreamed. This paper investigates the instruments MoF do, can, and should employ in order to be proactive and effective in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS through supporting the implementation […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

18/02/2013

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using participatory impact diagrams to evaluate a community development project in Kenya

Keywords

Overview

Participatory approaches for impact assessment are increasingly becoming popular with development organisations for engaging multiple stakeholders. We present our use of participatory impact diagrams as an evaluation tool within a mixed methods impact assessment of several drought-reduction interventions in Kenya. Results show that because men and women have different roles, their experiences of interventions vary. […]

Journal article

Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Learning about women’s empowerment in the context of development projects: do the figures tell us enough?

Keywords

Overview

In this article, we consider three projects implemented by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation: a project in Nepal focusing on capacity building (vocational skills training); a project in Bangladesh focusing on income generation; and a project in Kosovo working on agency – enhancing the voice of citizens in local governance. The article examines how donor requirements for […]

Journal article

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

A review of approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

Keywords

Overview

This article presents findings from a review of 70 evaluations of development interventions which had direct or indirect impacts on the economic empowerment of women and girls. We defined this as a process whereby women and girls experience transformation in power, agency, and economic advancement. The review distilled knowledge about monitoring, evaluation, and learning methods […]

Book

Protection: An ALNAP Guide for humanitarian agencies

01/04/2006

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This guide gives essential advice and insights to humanitarian practitioners who are involved in providing safety and protecting vulnerable people in war and disaster. It provides a framework for responsibility and action, which helps clarify conceptual issues and helps humanitarian field workers position themselves vis-a-vis other actors who have overlapping mandates. A practical schema is […]

Book

Gender, Development, and Health

01/01/2001

1 documents

119 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of […]

Journal article

Community involvement in constructing village health buildings in Uganda and Sierra Leone

01/11/1995

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

What opportunities are there, within Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes, for village communities to participate in the process of conceiving, constructing, and maintaining their own health facilities? This article looks at three PHC projects in Sierra Leone and Uganda, involving NGOs, governments, and host communities in the construction of health buildings. From these case studies, […]

Journal article

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

01/02/1999

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

Journal article

On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash-and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India

01/08/2001

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the structure and impacts of a development project in Nagaland, India. The project was a large-scale experiment in participatory development that emphasised local technology based on farmer-led testing of agroforestry, where farmers themselves select agroforestry technologies, implement the field tests and assume responsibility for disseminating the results locally. This assessment suggests that […]

Journal article

Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work

01/08/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The field of advocacy work is growing and changing rapidly and there is much to be done in exploring not only how best to carry out effective advocacy, but also how best to use the tools of monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment (M&E/IA) to promote learning, improve accountability, and assess the value of advocacy. […]

Journal article

The role of Ministries of Finance in implementing the ‘Three Ones’

01/08/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Ministries of Finance (MoF) cannot ignore the major challenge to development posed by HIV/AIDS. To tackle the epidemic a new comprehensive and consistent approach is required: HIV/AIDS must be mainstreamed. This paper investigates the instruments MoF do, can, and should employ in order to be proactive and effective in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS through supporting the implementation […]