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Video for recording and training in participatory development

01/02/1998

5 pages long

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The authors offer some initial thoughts on the potential of using video to record Participatory Rural Research (PRR) sessions, highlighting the medium’s apparent strengths and weaknesses compared to taking written notes and/or still photographs. They conclude that the use of video should be considered afresh in different contexts so as to determine whether its use […]

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The informal pharmaceuticals market in the Democratic Republic of Congo

01/05/1998

5 pages long

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In 1996 UNRISD sponsored a survey, using questionnaires, interviews and participant research, into the parallel pharmaceutical market in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire). The author describes `typical’ purchasers and vendors, the quality of products sold and bought, and the levels of regulation possible/needed in such a market, and challenges policy makers to develop […]

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Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

01/05/1998

14 pages long

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Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

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Drawing on recent research, it has been explored how far and in what ways UK NGOs have tried to incorporate gender into the policies and procedures of their international development work, and how far a formal recognition of gender issues is shaping the way each organization functions. The strengths and weaknesses of different strategies are […]

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Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

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Development methods

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This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

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Empowerment for development: taking participatory appraisal further in rural South Africa

01/05/1999

13 pages long

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This paper examines the potential for Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques to contribute to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A series of participatory workshops was undertaken in which various new techniques were used to identify people-environment relationships and, in particular, the community perception of […]

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Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

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Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

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Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

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Access to graduate education in Bangladesh

01/11/1999

5 pages long

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There has been growing concern in Bangladesh that access to higher education is restricted to high-income families. Here, the author reports on the early findings of research into the socio-economic backgrounds of students at Bangladesh’s major universities. These findings indicate that the average student is from an affluent, probably land-owning, family. The results are worrying […]

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Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

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In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

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Guest editors’ introduction: development management in practice

01/02/1999

2 pages long

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The theme running through this special issue is `development management in practice’. As the focus is on the practice of development management, we include contributions which in some way illustrate success, failure, good practice, new insights, and research needed better to understand the management of development. The terms management and development (and their combination) are […]

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Assessing nutritional status and functional ability of older adults in developing countries

01/02/2000

6 pages long

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This paper reports on the findings of a five-year collaborative research programme between the Public Health Nutrition Unit (PHNU) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and HelpAge International (HAI) that was conducted in India, Tanzania, and Malawi with the broad objective of providing simple and easy tools for assessing nutritional vulnerability […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Video for recording and training in participatory development

01/02/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The authors offer some initial thoughts on the potential of using video to record Participatory Rural Research (PRR) sessions, highlighting the medium’s apparent strengths and weaknesses compared to taking written notes and/or still photographs. They conclude that the use of video should be considered afresh in different contexts so as to determine whether its use […]

Journal article

The informal pharmaceuticals market in the Democratic Republic of Congo

01/05/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 1996 UNRISD sponsored a survey, using questionnaires, interviews and participant research, into the parallel pharmaceutical market in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire). The author describes `typical’ purchasers and vendors, the quality of products sold and bought, and the levels of regulation possible/needed in such a market, and challenges policy makers to develop […]

Journal article

Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

01/05/1998

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

Keywords

Overview

Drawing on recent research, it has been explored how far and in what ways UK NGOs have tried to incorporate gender into the policies and procedures of their international development work, and how far a formal recognition of gender issues is shaping the way each organization functions. The strengths and weaknesses of different strategies are […]

Journal article

Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

Journal article

Empowerment for development: taking participatory appraisal further in rural South Africa

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the potential for Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques to contribute to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A series of participatory workshops was undertaken in which various new techniques were used to identify people-environment relationships and, in particular, the community perception of […]

Journal article

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

Keywords

Overview

Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

Journal article

Access to graduate education in Bangladesh

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There has been growing concern in Bangladesh that access to higher education is restricted to high-income families. Here, the author reports on the early findings of research into the socio-economic backgrounds of students at Bangladesh’s major universities. These findings indicate that the average student is from an affluent, probably land-owning, family. The results are worrying […]

Journal article

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

Journal article

Guest editors’ introduction: development management in practice

01/02/1999

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The theme running through this special issue is `development management in practice’. As the focus is on the practice of development management, we include contributions which in some way illustrate success, failure, good practice, new insights, and research needed better to understand the management of development. The terms management and development (and their combination) are […]

Journal article

Assessing nutritional status and functional ability of older adults in developing countries

01/02/2000

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reports on the findings of a five-year collaborative research programme between the Public Health Nutrition Unit (PHNU) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and HelpAge International (HAI) that was conducted in India, Tanzania, and Malawi with the broad objective of providing simple and easy tools for assessing nutritional vulnerability […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Video for recording and training in participatory development

01/02/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The authors offer some initial thoughts on the potential of using video to record Participatory Rural Research (PRR) sessions, highlighting the medium’s apparent strengths and weaknesses compared to taking written notes and/or still photographs. They conclude that the use of video should be considered afresh in different contexts so as to determine whether its use […]

Journal article

The informal pharmaceuticals market in the Democratic Republic of Congo

01/05/1998

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 1996 UNRISD sponsored a survey, using questionnaires, interviews and participant research, into the parallel pharmaceutical market in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire). The author describes `typical’ purchasers and vendors, the quality of products sold and bought, and the levels of regulation possible/needed in such a market, and challenges policy makers to develop […]

Journal article

Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

01/05/1998

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

Keywords

Overview

Drawing on recent research, it has been explored how far and in what ways UK NGOs have tried to incorporate gender into the policies and procedures of their international development work, and how far a formal recognition of gender issues is shaping the way each organization functions. The strengths and weaknesses of different strategies are […]

Journal article

Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

Journal article

Empowerment for development: taking participatory appraisal further in rural South Africa

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper examines the potential for Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques to contribute to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. A series of participatory workshops was undertaken in which various new techniques were used to identify people-environment relationships and, in particular, the community perception of […]

Journal article

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

Keywords

Overview

Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

Journal article

Access to graduate education in Bangladesh

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There has been growing concern in Bangladesh that access to higher education is restricted to high-income families. Here, the author reports on the early findings of research into the socio-economic backgrounds of students at Bangladesh’s major universities. These findings indicate that the average student is from an affluent, probably land-owning, family. The results are worrying […]

Journal article

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE). Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the equity and efficiency benefits associated with it. In particular, decentralisation is seen to […]

Journal article

Guest editors’ introduction: development management in practice

01/02/1999

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The theme running through this special issue is `development management in practice’. As the focus is on the practice of development management, we include contributions which in some way illustrate success, failure, good practice, new insights, and research needed better to understand the management of development. The terms management and development (and their combination) are […]

Journal article

Assessing nutritional status and functional ability of older adults in developing countries

01/02/2000

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reports on the findings of a five-year collaborative research programme between the Public Health Nutrition Unit (PHNU) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and HelpAge International (HAI) that was conducted in India, Tanzania, and Malawi with the broad objective of providing simple and easy tools for assessing nutritional vulnerability […]