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The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from south-west China

01/08/2006

12 pages long

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This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in south-west China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research, particularly in the area of natural-resource management (NRM). The authors describe their efforts to incorporate PM&E practices in their work. The process proved challenging, despite […]

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Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

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This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

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Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

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The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development

01/08/2008

16 pages long

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This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author’s personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from […]

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The place of stories in development: creating spaces for participation through narrative analysis

01/04/2010

8 pages long

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The stories that we hear as we conduct development research or implement development projects are often relegated to the margins of development studies. This article argues that these stories require our attention, for they are windows on to indigenous narratives of development and our placement in those narratives. Examining these stories as efforts to employ […]

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Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs

01/09/2010

15 pages long

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Development methods

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This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a framework, defining downward accountability in practical terms, and three management processes. They were successfully used to (a) encourage staff to improve downward […]

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Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis: a practical method for project planning and evaluation

01/11/2010

12 pages long

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Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation, developed for use with complex research-for-development projects. PIPA begins with a participatory workshop where stakeholders make explicit their assumptions about how their project will make an impact, and produce an ‘Outcomes logic model’ and an ‘Impact logic model’. These two logic […]

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Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change – overview

01/11/2010

15 pages long

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The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26-28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving livelihoods. Use-oriented research which links knowledge with action has greater welfare and development impacts. Researchers must help to link diverse stakeholders in […]

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Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

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High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

01/02/1993

4 pages long

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High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

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Far from being the ‘clean technology’ it is hailed as, micro-electronics manufacturing is seriously harming the health of employees, their families, and the local environment. Most micro-electronic workers are young women, mainly in South-East Asia but also in the US, Mexico, Thailand and Scotland. This article uncovers the health risks to which workers are exposed. […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from south-west China

01/08/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in south-west China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research, particularly in the area of natural-resource management (NRM). The authors describe their efforts to incorporate PM&E practices in their work. The process proved challenging, despite […]

Journal article

Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

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Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

Journal article

The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development

01/08/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author’s personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from […]

Journal article

The place of stories in development: creating spaces for participation through narrative analysis

01/04/2010

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The stories that we hear as we conduct development research or implement development projects are often relegated to the margins of development studies. This article argues that these stories require our attention, for they are windows on to indigenous narratives of development and our placement in those narratives. Examining these stories as efforts to employ […]

Journal article

Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs

01/09/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a framework, defining downward accountability in practical terms, and three management processes. They were successfully used to (a) encourage staff to improve downward […]

Journal article

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis: a practical method for project planning and evaluation

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation, developed for use with complex research-for-development projects. PIPA begins with a participatory workshop where stakeholders make explicit their assumptions about how their project will make an impact, and produce an ‘Outcomes logic model’ and an ‘Impact logic model’. These two logic […]

Journal article

Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change – overview

01/11/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26-28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving livelihoods. Use-oriented research which links knowledge with action has greater welfare and development impacts. Researchers must help to link diverse stakeholders in […]

Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

Journal article

High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

01/02/1993

4 pages long

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High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

Keywords

Overview

Far from being the ‘clean technology’ it is hailed as, micro-electronics manufacturing is seriously harming the health of employees, their families, and the local environment. Most micro-electronic workers are young women, mainly in South-East Asia but also in the US, Mexico, Thailand and Scotland. This article uncovers the health risks to which workers are exposed. […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from south-west China

01/08/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in south-west China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research, particularly in the area of natural-resource management (NRM). The authors describe their efforts to incorporate PM&E practices in their work. The process proved challenging, despite […]

Journal article

Diasporas as ‘agents of development’: transforming brain drain into brain gain? The Dutch example

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on research that explored and analysed the potential role of diasporas in development aid in the Netherlands. The research adopted the hypothesis that development agencies could benefit from the knowledge, skills, and views of diasporas as ‘agents of development’ and thereby make aid more effective and sustainable. Data were derived from […]

Journal article

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

01/06/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa

Keywords

Overview

Women planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women’s experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, […]

Journal article

The lost 1990s? Personal reflections on a history of participatory technology development

01/08/2008

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article traces a history of agricultural participatory research, largely from the author’s personal experience. Participatory research in the 1970s was mostly led by disciplinary scientists, and characterised by innovative activities and open academic debate, with some recognition that policy and development practice was a political process. The 1980s saw a shift to learning from […]

Journal article

The place of stories in development: creating spaces for participation through narrative analysis

01/04/2010

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The stories that we hear as we conduct development research or implement development projects are often relegated to the margins of development studies. This article argues that these stories require our attention, for they are windows on to indigenous narratives of development and our placement in those narratives. Examining these stories as efforts to employ […]

Journal article

Listen First: a pilot system for managing downward accountability in NGOs

01/09/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article reports on a research project intended to develop systematic ways of managing downward accountability in an international NGO. Innovative tools were developed and trialled in six countries. The tools comprised a framework, defining downward accountability in practical terms, and three management processes. They were successfully used to (a) encourage staff to improve downward […]

Journal article

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis: a practical method for project planning and evaluation

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical approach to planning, monitoring and evaluation, developed for use with complex research-for-development projects. PIPA begins with a participatory workshop where stakeholders make explicit their assumptions about how their project will make an impact, and produce an ‘Outcomes logic model’ and an ‘Impact logic model’. These two logic […]

Journal article

Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change – overview

01/11/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The international workshop ‘Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change’ (Cali, Colombia, 26-28 March 2008) explored the challenges inherent in evaluating agricultural research-for-development efforts, identifying lessons and approaches for sustainably improving livelihoods. Use-oriented research which links knowledge with action has greater welfare and development impacts. Researchers must help to link diverse stakeholders in […]

Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

Journal article

High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

01/02/1993

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-tech hazards: beyond the factory gate

Keywords

Overview

Far from being the ‘clean technology’ it is hailed as, micro-electronics manufacturing is seriously harming the health of employees, their families, and the local environment. Most micro-electronic workers are young women, mainly in South-East Asia but also in the US, Mexico, Thailand and Scotland. This article uncovers the health risks to which workers are exposed. […]