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Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

08/07/2007

14 pages long

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Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

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The research process itself has the potential to empower women and men, if it addresses their questions, rather than just those of the researcher. In addition, if respondents then go on to participate in devising development strategies based on the findings of a shared research process, this can play an integral role in assisting respondents […]

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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 […]

Journal article

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 […]

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

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‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

05/11/2019

16 pages long

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‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

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This article reflects on insights gathered from doing feminist research during my doctoral studies in international development. My research focused on the lives of women formerly and currently in sex work in Eastern India, and their experiences and resistance of everyday violence. I argue that the adoption of a life-history interviewing method created possibilities to […]

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The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

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The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

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International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

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Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

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There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

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Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

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This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

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Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

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Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

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Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

08/07/2007

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

Keywords

Overview

The research process itself has the potential to empower women and men, if it addresses their questions, rather than just those of the researcher. In addition, if respondents then go on to participate in devising development strategies based on the findings of a shared research process, this can play an integral role in assisting respondents […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Journal article

‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

05/11/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

Keywords

Overview

This article reflects on insights gathered from doing feminist research during my doctoral studies in international development. My research focused on the lives of women formerly and currently in sex work in Eastern India, and their experiences and resistance of everyday violence. I argue that the adoption of a life-history interviewing method created possibilities to […]

Journal article

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

Journal article

Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

Journal article

Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

Journal article

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

Keywords

Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

08/07/2007

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Achieving respondent-led research in Madagascar

Keywords

Overview

The research process itself has the potential to empower women and men, if it addresses their questions, rather than just those of the researcher. In addition, if respondents then go on to participate in devising development strategies based on the findings of a shared research process, this can play an integral role in assisting respondents […]

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 […]

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Journal article

‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

05/11/2019

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Do you really want to hear about my life?’: doing ‘feminist research’ with women in sex work in Eastern India

Keywords

Overview

This article reflects on insights gathered from doing feminist research during my doctoral studies in international development. My research focused on the lives of women formerly and currently in sex work in Eastern India, and their experiences and resistance of everyday violence. I argue that the adoption of a life-history interviewing method created possibilities to […]

Journal article

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

Journal article

Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

Journal article

Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

Journal article

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

Keywords

Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]