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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 […]

Journal article

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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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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‘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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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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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 […]

Journal article

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 […]

Journal article

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 […]

Journal article

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 […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]