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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 […]

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Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

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Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

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About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

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Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

04/11/2010

10 pages long

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Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

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In the future, more food will be needed to feed a growing world population. High-yielding crop varieties will play a key role in meeting this challenge. This article draws on research undertaken by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in La Frailesca in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Both agricultural and social processes […]

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Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

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Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

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 […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

04/11/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

Keywords

Overview

In the future, more food will be needed to feed a growing world population. High-yielding crop varieties will play a key role in meeting this challenge. This article draws on research undertaken by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in La Frailesca in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Both agricultural and social processes […]

Journal article

Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

04/11/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Maize diversity and gender: research from Mexico

Keywords

Overview

In the future, more food will be needed to feed a growing world population. High-yielding crop varieties will play a key role in meeting this challenge. This article draws on research undertaken by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in La Frailesca in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Both agricultural and social processes […]

Journal article

Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]