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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 […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

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Overview

This article offers a personal reflection of my journey into participatory arts-based research with sex work migrants in South Africa. It begins by sharing some background information of how my own experience as a migrant woman, and my layered (sometimes conflicted) identities, have continued to shape and influence much of my scholarly work, including my […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

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About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

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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 […]

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Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health

01/04/2007

6 pages long

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This report summarises a project of participatory action-research combining concepts from the field of development management with practice in international mental health. The research was conducted in Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Romania. The policy-as-process model is central to understandings of development management, but it is unfamiliar to organisations working in mental health, even those working from […]

Journal article

Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

09/07/2007

10 pages long

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Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

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Overview

This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried […]

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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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

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

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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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 […]

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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 […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article offers a personal reflection of my journey into participatory arts-based research with sex work migrants in South Africa. It begins by sharing some background information of how my own experience as a migrant woman, and my layered (sometimes conflicted) identities, have continued to shape and influence much of my scholarly work, including my […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

Webpage

About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

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

Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health

01/04/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This report summarises a project of participatory action-research combining concepts from the field of development management with practice in international mental health. The research was conducted in Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Romania. The policy-as-process model is central to understandings of development management, but it is unfamiliar to organisations working in mental health, even those working from […]

Journal article

Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

09/07/2007

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

Keywords

Overview

This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried […]

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

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 […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article offers a personal reflection of my journey into participatory arts-based research with sex work migrants in South Africa. It begins by sharing some background information of how my own experience as a migrant woman, and my layered (sometimes conflicted) identities, have continued to shape and influence much of my scholarly work, including my […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

Webpage

About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

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

Researching public action and development concepts in the context of mental health

01/04/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This report summarises a project of participatory action-research combining concepts from the field of development management with practice in international mental health. The research was conducted in Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, and Romania. The policy-as-process model is central to understandings of development management, but it is unfamiliar to organisations working in mental health, even those working from […]

Journal article

Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

09/07/2007

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reflections on the use of the life history method in researching rural African women: field experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe

Keywords

Overview

This article examines some methodological issues in using the life history approach in social research. Although there are diverse opinions on how the approach should be used, there are certain methods of collecting, analysing, and reporting ensuing data that are often associated with it; these methods were used by the authors in recent studies carried […]

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

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 […]