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Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

01/02/2000

12 pages long

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Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

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ABANTU for Development embarked on a regional programme to strengthen civil society capacities for engaging with policy from a gender perspective. An early programme activity involved an in-depth study of NGO capacities for policy engagement which ABANTU carried out in Nigeria during the recent period of military rule. In keeping with ABANTU’s commitments as a […]

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Research Round-up

01/02/2003

5 pages long

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Based upon ‘Critical review of the capacity building literature and discourse’. The research summarised here addresses the ambiguities and discrepancies of the capacity building dialect within the aid and development industry. Three interrelated themes are found to permeate the capacity building literature, despite diverse ideological persuasions. The appropriation of these themes within the capacity building […]

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Trends in UK NGOs: a research note

01/11/2003

6 pages long

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This paper reports on some of the generic findings arising from research being undertaken in the UK, South Africa, and Uganda into the ways in which the management tools currently promoted by official donors are passed down the aid chain, through UK NGOs, to civil society organisations in the South. The increasing competition for donor […]

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Democratic decentralisation and local participation: a review of recent research

01/11/2004

11 pages long

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This review essay analyses three recent works on the relationship between democracy and decentralisation, with a focus on local participation and empowerment: Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance (Richard Crook and James Manor), Good Government in the Tropics (Judith Tendler), and a thematic issue of the European Journal […]

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Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approach

01/02/2004

13 pages long

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This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home-based workers. The article focuses mainly […]

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How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia

01/06/2005

12 pages long

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This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private-sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in developed and developing countries alike, to decentralise ARDTT and to encourage private-sector investment. Potential mechanisms for Bolivia are considered within three broad categories: […]

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Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

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This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Addressing the research-development disconnect: lessons from East and Central African Highlands

01/11/2010

13 pages long

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A growing concern about the limited impact of agricultural research and development on natural-resources management (NRM) and livelihoods in the highlands of East and Central Africa led to the establishment in 1995 of the African Highlands Initiative, with a mandate to develop methodologies for integrated NRM and institutionalise them in partner organisations. Emerging lessons show […]

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Research that matters: outcome mapping for linking knowledge to poverty-reduction actions

01/11/2010

12 pages long

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An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project’s intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the […]

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The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

01/03/1999

8 pages long

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The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

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A project run by the Canadian International Development Research Centre brought together a wide variety of specialists in order to explore the links between gender, science, and development, and to shape holistic, ‘being-oriented’ approaches, where values based in religion and spirituality inform the perspective and choices of methods of development researchers and practitioners. This article […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

01/02/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

Keywords

Overview

ABANTU for Development embarked on a regional programme to strengthen civil society capacities for engaging with policy from a gender perspective. An early programme activity involved an in-depth study of NGO capacities for policy engagement which ABANTU carried out in Nigeria during the recent period of military rule. In keeping with ABANTU’s commitments as a […]

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/02/2003

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based upon ‘Critical review of the capacity building literature and discourse’. The research summarised here addresses the ambiguities and discrepancies of the capacity building dialect within the aid and development industry. Three interrelated themes are found to permeate the capacity building literature, despite diverse ideological persuasions. The appropriation of these themes within the capacity building […]

Journal article

Trends in UK NGOs: a research note

01/11/2003

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper reports on some of the generic findings arising from research being undertaken in the UK, South Africa, and Uganda into the ways in which the management tools currently promoted by official donors are passed down the aid chain, through UK NGOs, to civil society organisations in the South. The increasing competition for donor […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and local participation: a review of recent research

01/11/2004

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This review essay analyses three recent works on the relationship between democracy and decentralisation, with a focus on local participation and empowerment: Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance (Richard Crook and James Manor), Good Government in the Tropics (Judith Tendler), and a thematic issue of the European Journal […]

Journal article

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approach

01/02/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home-based workers. The article focuses mainly […]

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How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia

01/06/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private-sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in developed and developing countries alike, to decentralise ARDTT and to encourage private-sector investment. Potential mechanisms for Bolivia are considered within three broad categories: […]

Journal article

Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Addressing the research-development disconnect: lessons from East and Central African Highlands

01/11/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A growing concern about the limited impact of agricultural research and development on natural-resources management (NRM) and livelihoods in the highlands of East and Central Africa led to the establishment in 1995 of the African Highlands Initiative, with a mandate to develop methodologies for integrated NRM and institutionalise them in partner organisations. Emerging lessons show […]

Journal article

Research that matters: outcome mapping for linking knowledge to poverty-reduction actions

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project’s intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the […]

Journal article

The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

01/03/1999

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

Keywords

Overview

A project run by the Canadian International Development Research Centre brought together a wide variety of specialists in order to explore the links between gender, science, and development, and to shape holistic, ‘being-oriented’ approaches, where values based in religion and spirituality inform the perspective and choices of methods of development researchers and practitioners. This article […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

01/02/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strengthening civil society: participatory action research in a militarised state

Keywords

Overview

ABANTU for Development embarked on a regional programme to strengthen civil society capacities for engaging with policy from a gender perspective. An early programme activity involved an in-depth study of NGO capacities for policy engagement which ABANTU carried out in Nigeria during the recent period of military rule. In keeping with ABANTU’s commitments as a […]

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/02/2003

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based upon ‘Critical review of the capacity building literature and discourse’. The research summarised here addresses the ambiguities and discrepancies of the capacity building dialect within the aid and development industry. Three interrelated themes are found to permeate the capacity building literature, despite diverse ideological persuasions. The appropriation of these themes within the capacity building […]

Journal article

Trends in UK NGOs: a research note

01/11/2003

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reports on some of the generic findings arising from research being undertaken in the UK, South Africa, and Uganda into the ways in which the management tools currently promoted by official donors are passed down the aid chain, through UK NGOs, to civil society organisations in the South. The increasing competition for donor […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and local participation: a review of recent research

01/11/2004

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This review essay analyses three recent works on the relationship between democracy and decentralisation, with a focus on local participation and empowerment: Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance (Richard Crook and James Manor), Good Government in the Tropics (Judith Tendler), and a thematic issue of the European Journal […]

Journal article

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approach

01/02/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home-based workers. The article focuses mainly […]

Journal article

How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia

01/06/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article evaluates potential mechanisms for facilitating increased private-sector engagement in agricultural research for development and technology transfer (ARDTT), with particular emphasis on Bolivia. It reviews the mixed results of efforts, in developed and developing countries alike, to decentralise ARDTT and to encourage private-sector investment. Potential mechanisms for Bolivia are considered within three broad categories: […]

Journal article

Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Addressing the research-development disconnect: lessons from East and Central African Highlands

01/11/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A growing concern about the limited impact of agricultural research and development on natural-resources management (NRM) and livelihoods in the highlands of East and Central Africa led to the establishment in 1995 of the African Highlands Initiative, with a mandate to develop methodologies for integrated NRM and institutionalise them in partner organisations. Emerging lessons show […]

Journal article

Research that matters: outcome mapping for linking knowledge to poverty-reduction actions

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

An ‘Outcome Mapping’ approach was applied retrospectively to five diverse, highly collaborative research projects aimed at poverty reduction. Designed to help plan for, clarify, and document intended and actual changes in behaviour, actions, and relationships of groups and organisations that directly influence a project’s intended beneficiaries, Outcome Mapping enabled us to identify and describe the […]

Journal article

The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

01/03/1999

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Way to Do is to Be’: exploring the interface between values and research

Keywords

Overview

A project run by the Canadian International Development Research Centre brought together a wide variety of specialists in order to explore the links between gender, science, and development, and to shape holistic, ‘being-oriented’ approaches, where values based in religion and spirituality inform the perspective and choices of methods of development researchers and practitioners. This article […]