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Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

01/08/2008

5 pages long

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Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

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While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers. The NGO Practical Action has been working in the Andes to address farmers’ veterinary and agriculture needs. The work has […]

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Pro-poor values in agricultural research management: PETRRA experiences in practice

01/08/2008

7 pages long

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PETRRA was an agricultural research-management project which used a values-based approach in project design, planning, and implementation. Through an experiential learning process, agricultural research and development (R&D) institutes, NGOs, private agencies, and community-based organisations rediscovered and improved the understanding of their strengths in meeting development commitments. The project successfully showed how values-based research can meaningfully […]

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Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

01/08/2009

11 pages long

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Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

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This article analyses the social-change practices of Minga Peru, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon which promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participatory research methods, reveals a feminist and gender-equitable approach, allowing participants to take the role of leader rather than of passive research subject. […]

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Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

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Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

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This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Case study

Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

06/10/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reflects Oxfam’s experience of commissioning and managing action research in OPTI. Action research is a process of enquiry conducted by citizens and members of affected communities, rather than by trained researchers. Civil society in OPTI has limited space for operation. Oxfam therefore identified action research as a potentially effective model of community empowerment […]

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Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

04/07/2007

13 pages long

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Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

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This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa. The first challenge faced was finding an appropriate balance between an ‘expert-led’ and an inclusive participatory research process. The second challenge was identifying a set of criteria, based on explicit research values, […]

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Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

07/07/2007

11 pages long

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Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

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The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is an organisation that promotes community participation in health, especially in the area of HIV and AIDS and reproductive health. During the course of its work, it realised that there was a lack of community-generated information on which to base its activities. CWGH therefore initiated community-based participatory action […]

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Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

03/07/2007

17 pages long

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Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

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This article provides a background on the feminist frameworks at the foundation of research conducted from a gender perspective, showing that development research that ignores the complex aspects of gender relations results in incomplete and/or biased research, which in turn leads to the formulation of incomplete development policies and programmes. The article goes on to […]

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The promise of appreciative inquiry as an interview tool for field research

01/04/2005

9 pages long

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Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has long been used as a methodology for understanding organisational learning and change. This paper discusses its applications to interview-based field research within the development context. While AI begins by looking at the best of an organisation or individual’s experience, it can help researchers to gain a textured and detailed understanding of […]

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Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

01/02/2006

12 pages long

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Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

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Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

01/08/2008

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

Keywords

Overview

While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers. The NGO Practical Action has been working in the Andes to address farmers’ veterinary and agriculture needs. The work has […]

Journal article

Pro-poor values in agricultural research management: PETRRA experiences in practice

01/08/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

PETRRA was an agricultural research-management project which used a values-based approach in project design, planning, and implementation. Through an experiential learning process, agricultural research and development (R&D) institutes, NGOs, private agencies, and community-based organisations rediscovered and improved the understanding of their strengths in meeting development commitments. The project successfully showed how values-based research can meaningfully […]

Journal article

Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

01/08/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the social-change practices of Minga Peru, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon which promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participatory research methods, reveals a feminist and gender-equitable approach, allowing participants to take the role of leader rather than of passive research subject. […]

Journal article

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Case study

Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

06/10/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects Oxfam’s experience of commissioning and managing action research in OPTI. Action research is a process of enquiry conducted by citizens and members of affected communities, rather than by trained researchers. Civil society in OPTI has limited space for operation. Oxfam therefore identified action research as a potentially effective model of community empowerment […]

Journal article

Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

04/07/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

Keywords

Overview

This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa. The first challenge faced was finding an appropriate balance between an ‘expert-led’ and an inclusive participatory research process. The second challenge was identifying a set of criteria, based on explicit research values, […]

Journal article

Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

07/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

Keywords

Overview

The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is an organisation that promotes community participation in health, especially in the area of HIV and AIDS and reproductive health. During the course of its work, it realised that there was a lack of community-generated information on which to base its activities. CWGH therefore initiated community-based participatory action […]

Journal article

Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

03/07/2007

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

Keywords

Overview

This article provides a background on the feminist frameworks at the foundation of research conducted from a gender perspective, showing that development research that ignores the complex aspects of gender relations results in incomplete and/or biased research, which in turn leads to the formulation of incomplete development policies and programmes. The article goes on to […]

Journal article

The promise of appreciative inquiry as an interview tool for field research

01/04/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has long been used as a methodology for understanding organisational learning and change. This paper discusses its applications to interview-based field research within the development context. While AI begins by looking at the best of an organisation or individual’s experience, it can help researchers to gain a textured and detailed understanding of […]

Journal article

Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

Keywords

Overview

Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

01/08/2008

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru

Keywords

Overview

While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers. The NGO Practical Action has been working in the Andes to address farmers’ veterinary and agriculture needs. The work has […]

Journal article

Pro-poor values in agricultural research management: PETRRA experiences in practice

01/08/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

PETRRA was an agricultural research-management project which used a values-based approach in project design, planning, and implementation. Through an experiential learning process, agricultural research and development (R&D) institutes, NGOs, private agencies, and community-based organisations rediscovered and improved the understanding of their strengths in meeting development commitments. The project successfully showed how values-based research can meaningfully […]

Journal article

Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

01/08/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing social-change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the social-change practices of Minga Peru, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon which promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participatory research methods, reveals a feminist and gender-equitable approach, allowing participants to take the role of leader rather than of passive research subject. […]

Journal article

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

01/07/2000

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Community research on older women in the Dominican Republic

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at action-research into the interests and needs of older women in 11 urban communities in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The research was instigated by Aquelarre (CEAPA), with help from International Co-operation for Development (ICD); Fundompromued (the Dominican Foundation for the Protection of Women of the Third Age); and informal women’s groups. The […]

Case study

Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

06/10/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects Oxfam’s experience of commissioning and managing action research in OPTI. Action research is a process of enquiry conducted by citizens and members of affected communities, rather than by trained researchers. Civil society in OPTI has limited space for operation. Oxfam therefore identified action research as a potentially effective model of community empowerment […]

Journal article

Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

04/07/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participation, values, and implementation: three research challenges in developing gender-sensitive indicators

Keywords

Overview

This article critically reviews three key research challenges that emerged as a result of developing gender-sensitive indicators for an NGO in South Africa. The first challenge faced was finding an appropriate balance between an ‘expert-led’ and an inclusive participatory research process. The second challenge was identifying a set of criteria, based on explicit research values, […]

Journal article

Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

07/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Deepening our understanding of community-based participatory research: lessons from work around reproductive rights in Zimbabwe

Keywords

Overview

The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is an organisation that promotes community participation in health, especially in the area of HIV and AIDS and reproductive health. During the course of its work, it realised that there was a lack of community-generated information on which to base its activities. CWGH therefore initiated community-based participatory action […]

Journal article

Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

03/07/2007

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist research methodologies and development: overview and practical application

Keywords

Overview

This article provides a background on the feminist frameworks at the foundation of research conducted from a gender perspective, showing that development research that ignores the complex aspects of gender relations results in incomplete and/or biased research, which in turn leads to the formulation of incomplete development policies and programmes. The article goes on to […]

Journal article

The promise of appreciative inquiry as an interview tool for field research

01/04/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has long been used as a methodology for understanding organisational learning and change. This paper discusses its applications to interview-based field research within the development context. While AI begins by looking at the best of an organisation or individual’s experience, it can help researchers to gain a textured and detailed understanding of […]

Journal article

Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Academic-community collaboration, gender research, and development: pitfalls and possibilities

Keywords

Overview

Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with […]