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Participatory action research into donor-recipient relations: a case study

01/04/2007

12 pages long

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This article describes the exploratory and preparatory phase of a research project designed to use co-operative enquiry as a method for transformative and participatory action research into relations between donors and recipients in two developing countries, Bolivia and Bangladesh. It describes the origins of the idea, the conceptual challenges that the authors faced in seeking […]

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Creating knowledge for action: the case for participatory communication in research

01/06/2009

13 pages long

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This article makes a case for using participatory communication in research. It introduces participatory communication as a citizen-led approach to both creating and expressing knowledge; within research this means that researchers are not simply responsible for generating information and communicating about it, neither are they acting alone. From this perspective the emphasis of participatory communication […]

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Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

01/02/2007

12 pages long

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Poverty and the way in which it is researched are major preoccupations for many social scientists. This article presents different ways of researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on qualitative methods and the different ways in which these can be used to collect data. Examples are drawn from field research conducted in urban areas […]

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Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

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Insider-outsider positions in health-development research: reflections for practice

01/01/2009

6 pages long

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Recognising that the stance of investigators could make a major impact on the quality and/or interpretation of development-study findings, a small investigation to explore researcher positions and roles was implemented. This was a subsidiary component of a larger health-development study which aimed to explore the evidence base for psychosocial and mental-health policy formulation and implementation […]

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Practitioner-led research: experiences with Learning Platforms

01/06/2007

7 pages long

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This article describes Learning Platforms, a structured effort by the Dutch-based agency SNV to encourage its expert advisers to engage in reading and analysing academic research related to the context in which they work, and to undertake research of their own. Although the practitioners’ ability to apply their research to their daily practice, and the […]

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Knowledge management’: a case study of the World Bank’s research department

01/08/2007

8 pages long

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This article looks at ‘knowledge management’, using a case study of the World Bank’s research department, located in the Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC). Despite the Bank’s presentation of its research arm as conducting ‘rigorous and objective’ work, the author finds that the Bank’s ‘knowledge management’ involves research that has tended to reinforce the dominant […]

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A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

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A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

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This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Participatory action research into donor-recipient relations: a case study

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the exploratory and preparatory phase of a research project designed to use co-operative enquiry as a method for transformative and participatory action research into relations between donors and recipients in two developing countries, Bolivia and Bangladesh. It describes the origins of the idea, the conceptual challenges that the authors faced in seeking […]

Journal article

Creating knowledge for action: the case for participatory communication in research

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article makes a case for using participatory communication in research. It introduces participatory communication as a citizen-led approach to both creating and expressing knowledge; within research this means that researchers are not simply responsible for generating information and communicating about it, neither are they acting alone. From this perspective the emphasis of participatory communication […]

Journal article

Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

01/02/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Poverty and the way in which it is researched are major preoccupations for many social scientists. This article presents different ways of researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on qualitative methods and the different ways in which these can be used to collect data. Examples are drawn from field research conducted in urban areas […]

Journal article

Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

Journal article

Insider-outsider positions in health-development research: reflections for practice

01/01/2009

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Recognising that the stance of investigators could make a major impact on the quality and/or interpretation of development-study findings, a small investigation to explore researcher positions and roles was implemented. This was a subsidiary component of a larger health-development study which aimed to explore the evidence base for psychosocial and mental-health policy formulation and implementation […]

Journal article

Practitioner-led research: experiences with Learning Platforms

01/06/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes Learning Platforms, a structured effort by the Dutch-based agency SNV to encourage its expert advisers to engage in reading and analysing academic research related to the context in which they work, and to undertake research of their own. Although the practitioners’ ability to apply their research to their daily practice, and the […]

Journal article

Knowledge management’: a case study of the World Bank’s research department

01/08/2007

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at ‘knowledge management’, using a case study of the World Bank’s research department, located in the Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC). Despite the Bank’s presentation of its research arm as conducting ‘rigorous and objective’ work, the author finds that the Bank’s ‘knowledge management’ involves research that has tended to reinforce the dominant […]

Journal article

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Participatory action research into donor-recipient relations: a case study

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes the exploratory and preparatory phase of a research project designed to use co-operative enquiry as a method for transformative and participatory action research into relations between donors and recipients in two developing countries, Bolivia and Bangladesh. It describes the origins of the idea, the conceptual challenges that the authors faced in seeking […]

Journal article

Creating knowledge for action: the case for participatory communication in research

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article makes a case for using participatory communication in research. It introduces participatory communication as a citizen-led approach to both creating and expressing knowledge; within research this means that researchers are not simply responsible for generating information and communicating about it, neither are they acting alone. From this perspective the emphasis of participatory communication […]

Journal article

Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

01/02/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Poverty and the way in which it is researched are major preoccupations for many social scientists. This article presents different ways of researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on qualitative methods and the different ways in which these can be used to collect data. Examples are drawn from field research conducted in urban areas […]

Journal article

Advocacy research and the World Bank: propositions for discussion

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This essay is organised in terms of several propositions for discussion that link advocacy and research dilemmas. Whether researchers can make a difference to the World Bank requires a broader assessment of whether the campaigns they work with are having an impact. While there have been some spectacular successes in terms of halting or redirecting […]

Journal article

Insider-outsider positions in health-development research: reflections for practice

01/01/2009

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Recognising that the stance of investigators could make a major impact on the quality and/or interpretation of development-study findings, a small investigation to explore researcher positions and roles was implemented. This was a subsidiary component of a larger health-development study which aimed to explore the evidence base for psychosocial and mental-health policy formulation and implementation […]

Journal article

Practitioner-led research: experiences with Learning Platforms

01/06/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article describes Learning Platforms, a structured effort by the Dutch-based agency SNV to encourage its expert advisers to engage in reading and analysing academic research related to the context in which they work, and to undertake research of their own. Although the practitioners’ ability to apply their research to their daily practice, and the […]

Journal article

Knowledge management’: a case study of the World Bank’s research department

01/08/2007

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at ‘knowledge management’, using a case study of the World Bank’s research department, located in the Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC). Despite the Bank’s presentation of its research arm as conducting ‘rigorous and objective’ work, the author finds that the Bank’s ‘knowledge management’ involves research that has tended to reinforce the dominant […]

Journal article

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]