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Building skills in qualitative research to inform pro-poor policy: experience from a Bangladeshi NGO

01/04/2006

16 pages long

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This paper describes the research methodology followed in the ‘Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Project’, a collaborative research project in Bangladesh between PROSHIKA (a large national NGO) and DFID (the UK government department for international development). The dual purpose of this project was to learn about poor people’s livelihoods and train the PROSHIKA research team […]

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Translation in cross-cultural research: an example from Bolivia

01/11/2007

6 pages long

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Translation raises ethical and epistemological dilemmas inherent in cross-cultural research. The process of communicating research participants’ words in a different language and context may impose another conceptual scheme on their thoughts. This may reinforce the hegemonic terms that Development Studies should seek to challenge. The article explores the idea that a reflexive approach to translation […]

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Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefits

01/08/2008

13 pages long

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Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on ‘Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia’, in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as […]

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Changing the world of development research? An insight into theory and practice

01/09/2010

13 pages long

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Development research has been through many stages over the past few decades and during this time has experienced fluctuating appreciation by development practice. There is an increasing gap between different ways of doing development research. For some, the purpose of development research is primarily to influence policies, and in order to do this development research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Writing Terms of Reference for Research

29/03/2019

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam strives to base its programmes on good quality research. Each year we devote significant resources to undertaking and commissioning research that will support and help to improve our work and that of our partners. Are we getting value for money in the research produced? The clarity of the Terms of Reference (TOR) given to […]

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Taking research where the practice is: a tale of two programmes from BRAC

01/09/2012

7 pages long

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A major challenge for the research community is to take knowledge or evidence generated from research to the practitioners for translation into tangible practice. This paper describes how an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO addressed this challenge and made use of research in developing two of its most successful projects – the oral therapy extension programme and […]

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Towards ethically sound participatory research with marginalised populations: experiences from India

01/11/2011

7 pages long

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Participatory research is increasingly being used with poor and marginalised populations in developing countries. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to ethical considerations in participatory research. We argue that there is a need for additional strategies to promote ethically sound participatory research, especially when working with marginalised groups. We present our experiences from […]

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19/12/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

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The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12/06/2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Integrating Gender in Research Planning

21/02/2019

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an understanding of the differences and inequalities in the interrelated lives of women, men, and members of other gender diverse groups, often shaped by unequal power relations and norms that dictate what roles, attitudes and behaviours are considered normal or appropriate. […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Building skills in qualitative research to inform pro-poor policy: experience from a Bangladeshi NGO

01/04/2006

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the research methodology followed in the ‘Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Project’, a collaborative research project in Bangladesh between PROSHIKA (a large national NGO) and DFID (the UK government department for international development). The dual purpose of this project was to learn about poor people’s livelihoods and train the PROSHIKA research team […]

Journal article

Translation in cross-cultural research: an example from Bolivia

01/11/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Translation raises ethical and epistemological dilemmas inherent in cross-cultural research. The process of communicating research participants’ words in a different language and context may impose another conceptual scheme on their thoughts. This may reinforce the hegemonic terms that Development Studies should seek to challenge. The article explores the idea that a reflexive approach to translation […]

Journal article

Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefits

01/08/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on ‘Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia’, in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as […]

Journal article

Changing the world of development research? An insight into theory and practice

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Development research has been through many stages over the past few decades and during this time has experienced fluctuating appreciation by development practice. There is an increasing gap between different ways of doing development research. For some, the purpose of development research is primarily to influence policies, and in order to do this development research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Writing Terms of Reference for Research

29/03/2019

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam strives to base its programmes on good quality research. Each year we devote significant resources to undertaking and commissioning research that will support and help to improve our work and that of our partners. Are we getting value for money in the research produced? The clarity of the Terms of Reference (TOR) given to […]

Journal article

Taking research where the practice is: a tale of two programmes from BRAC

01/09/2012

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A major challenge for the research community is to take knowledge or evidence generated from research to the practitioners for translation into tangible practice. This paper describes how an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO addressed this challenge and made use of research in developing two of its most successful projects – the oral therapy extension programme and […]

Journal article

Towards ethically sound participatory research with marginalised populations: experiences from India

01/11/2011

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research is increasingly being used with poor and marginalised populations in developing countries. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to ethical considerations in participatory research. We argue that there is a need for additional strategies to promote ethically sound participatory research, especially when working with marginalised groups. We present our experiences from […]

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19/12/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12/06/2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Integrating Gender in Research Planning

21/02/2019

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an understanding of the differences and inequalities in the interrelated lives of women, men, and members of other gender diverse groups, often shaped by unequal power relations and norms that dictate what roles, attitudes and behaviours are considered normal or appropriate. […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Building skills in qualitative research to inform pro-poor policy: experience from a Bangladeshi NGO

01/04/2006

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the research methodology followed in the ‘Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Project’, a collaborative research project in Bangladesh between PROSHIKA (a large national NGO) and DFID (the UK government department for international development). The dual purpose of this project was to learn about poor people’s livelihoods and train the PROSHIKA research team […]

Journal article

Translation in cross-cultural research: an example from Bolivia

01/11/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Translation raises ethical and epistemological dilemmas inherent in cross-cultural research. The process of communicating research participants’ words in a different language and context may impose another conceptual scheme on their thoughts. This may reinforce the hegemonic terms that Development Studies should seek to challenge. The article explores the idea that a reflexive approach to translation […]

Journal article

Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefits

01/08/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on ‘Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia’, in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as […]

Journal article

Changing the world of development research? An insight into theory and practice

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Development research has been through many stages over the past few decades and during this time has experienced fluctuating appreciation by development practice. There is an increasing gap between different ways of doing development research. For some, the purpose of development research is primarily to influence policies, and in order to do this development research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Writing Terms of Reference for Research

29/03/2019

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam strives to base its programmes on good quality research. Each year we devote significant resources to undertaking and commissioning research that will support and help to improve our work and that of our partners. Are we getting value for money in the research produced? The clarity of the Terms of Reference (TOR) given to […]

Journal article

Taking research where the practice is: a tale of two programmes from BRAC

01/09/2012

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A major challenge for the research community is to take knowledge or evidence generated from research to the practitioners for translation into tangible practice. This paper describes how an indigenous Bangladeshi NGO addressed this challenge and made use of research in developing two of its most successful projects – the oral therapy extension programme and […]

Journal article

Towards ethically sound participatory research with marginalised populations: experiences from India

01/11/2011

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research is increasingly being used with poor and marginalised populations in developing countries. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to ethical considerations in participatory research. We argue that there is a need for additional strategies to promote ethically sound participatory research, especially when working with marginalised groups. We present our experiences from […]

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19/12/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12/06/2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Integrating Gender in Research Planning

21/02/2019

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an understanding of the differences and inequalities in the interrelated lives of women, men, and members of other gender diverse groups, often shaped by unequal power relations and norms that dictate what roles, attitudes and behaviours are considered normal or appropriate. […]