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Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris

01/08/2002

12 pages long

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The research work of Harvard professor Chris Argyris gave rise to much of what is today called organisational learning, an approach subsequently promulgated by Peter Senge and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first section of this paper argues the relevance of organisational learning to NGOs, despite its origins in the study […]

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Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland

01/08/2002

11 pages long

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Organisational principles or value standards are considered crucial for maintaining quality in humanitarian assistance. Research among staff members of Médecins Sans Frontiéres-Holland (MSF-H) showed that fieldworkers construct their own interpretations of principles and priorities in response to demands placed on them in the field. Organisational principles are important for the performance and the well-being of […]

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Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs

01/08/2002

7 pages long

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This paper discusses the implications for organisational learning of recent research on NGO activity in natural disaster mitigation and preparedness. It identifies several institutional and other barriers to NGO learning. However, personal networks in NGOs are often strong, and determined and well-placed individuals can push significant innovations through. Greater emphasis on this human factor may […]

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Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

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The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

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Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

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Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

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Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

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Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

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Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

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From clients to citizens: Asset-based Community Development as a strategy for community-driven development

01/11/2003

13 pages long

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In this paper, Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. Following an overview of the principles and practice of ABCD, four major elements of ABCD are examined in light of the current literature on relevant research and practice. This involves exploring the theory and practice of appreciative inquiry; […]

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Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

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Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

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At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

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Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

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Practical Notes

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Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

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Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris

01/08/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The research work of Harvard professor Chris Argyris gave rise to much of what is today called organisational learning, an approach subsequently promulgated by Peter Senge and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first section of this paper argues the relevance of organisational learning to NGOs, despite its origins in the study […]

Journal article

Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland

01/08/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Organisational principles or value standards are considered crucial for maintaining quality in humanitarian assistance. Research among staff members of Médecins Sans Frontiéres-Holland (MSF-H) showed that fieldworkers construct their own interpretations of principles and priorities in response to demands placed on them in the field. Organisational principles are important for the performance and the well-being of […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the implications for organisational learning of recent research on NGO activity in natural disaster mitigation and preparedness. It identifies several institutional and other barriers to NGO learning. However, personal networks in NGOs are often strong, and determined and well-placed individuals can push significant innovations through. Greater emphasis on this human factor may […]

Journal article

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

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Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

Journal article

From clients to citizens: Asset-based Community Development as a strategy for community-driven development

01/11/2003

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this paper, Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. Following an overview of the principles and practice of ABCD, four major elements of ABCD are examined in light of the current literature on relevant research and practice. This involves exploring the theory and practice of appreciative inquiry; […]

Journal article

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

Keywords

Overview

At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

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Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Practical Notes

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Overview

Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris

01/08/2002

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The research work of Harvard professor Chris Argyris gave rise to much of what is today called organisational learning, an approach subsequently promulgated by Peter Senge and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first section of this paper argues the relevance of organisational learning to NGOs, despite its origins in the study […]

Journal article

Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland

01/08/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Organisational principles or value standards are considered crucial for maintaining quality in humanitarian assistance. Research among staff members of Médecins Sans Frontiéres-Holland (MSF-H) showed that fieldworkers construct their own interpretations of principles and priorities in response to demands placed on them in the field. Organisational principles are important for the performance and the well-being of […]

Journal article

Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the implications for organisational learning of recent research on NGO activity in natural disaster mitigation and preparedness. It identifies several institutional and other barriers to NGO learning. However, personal networks in NGOs are often strong, and determined and well-placed individuals can push significant innovations through. Greater emphasis on this human factor may […]

Journal article

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

Journal article

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

Journal article

From clients to citizens: Asset-based Community Development as a strategy for community-driven development

01/11/2003

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this paper, Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. Following an overview of the principles and practice of ABCD, four major elements of ABCD are examined in light of the current literature on relevant research and practice. This involves exploring the theory and practice of appreciative inquiry; […]

Journal article

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and conflict transformation: influences, roles, and experiences

Keywords

Overview

At first glance it would appear that despite women’s vital participation in peace-making processes, they are for the most part marginalised or belittled. However, moving away from the idea of women as outsiders and/or victims, we find evidence of their involvement in projects initiated and driven by them and/or in activities in which they work […]

Journal article

Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Practical Notes

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]