You searched for research - Page 8 of 47 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Showing 465 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘An Intellectual history of the United Nations’ and ‘Is `Development Studies’ a discipline or a pig’s ear? Some thoughts on the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/08/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘Social capital: red herring or right on? the Jamaican perspective’ and ‘Maori community-based sustainable development: a research progress report’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

Keywords

Overview

Since March 2000, in partnership with the Women’s Centre of Montreal and other units at Montreal universities, McGill’s Centre for Developing-Area Studies has carried out an action-research programme on gender and human security issues in the context of war and reconstruction. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers and activists has been working locally with women refugees, […]

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Research for Influencing Diagram

13/05/2019

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This diagram is designed to help to you plan research for influencing. It will help you to think through what you are trying to influence with evidence, who you are trying to influence and how, how to focus your research, which approaches will be most effective, and how to engage audiences to maximise influence. You […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Fostering Participation in Research

29/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research needs to be more inclusive of the voices of people affected by the issues at hand. This guideline has been written for anyone conducting, commissioning or managing research who thinks it would benefit from being more participatory but is unsure how to do this.

Journal article

Further resources for participatory research and gender analysis

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

So much work has been done on participatory research and gender analysis – their implementation, evaluation, and institutionalisation – that it is difficult to recommend a limited set of resources. The context here is ‘challenges to operationalising participatory research and gender analysis’, so we have sought out resources which shed light on some new practical […]

Journal article

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

01/08/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

Keywords

Overview

This study assessed the extent to which participatory methods had been used by CIMMYT, and how the scientists perceived them. Results suggest that participatory approaches at the Center were largely ‘functional’ – that is, aimed at improving the efficiency and relevance of research – and had in fact added value to the research efforts. The […]

Showing 465 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘An Intellectual history of the United Nations’ and ‘Is `Development Studies’ a discipline or a pig’s ear? Some thoughts on the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/08/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘Social capital: red herring or right on? the Jamaican perspective’ and ‘Maori community-based sustainable development: a research progress report’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

Keywords

Overview

Since March 2000, in partnership with the Women’s Centre of Montreal and other units at Montreal universities, McGill’s Centre for Developing-Area Studies has carried out an action-research programme on gender and human security issues in the context of war and reconstruction. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers and activists has been working locally with women refugees, […]

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Research for Influencing Diagram

13/05/2019

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This diagram is designed to help to you plan research for influencing. It will help you to think through what you are trying to influence with evidence, who you are trying to influence and how, how to focus your research, which approaches will be most effective, and how to engage audiences to maximise influence. You […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Fostering Participation in Research

29/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research needs to be more inclusive of the voices of people affected by the issues at hand. This guideline has been written for anyone conducting, commissioning or managing research who thinks it would benefit from being more participatory but is unsure how to do this.

Journal article

Further resources for participatory research and gender analysis

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

So much work has been done on participatory research and gender analysis – their implementation, evaluation, and institutionalisation – that it is difficult to recommend a limited set of resources. The context here is ‘challenges to operationalising participatory research and gender analysis’, so we have sought out resources which shed light on some new practical […]

Journal article

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

01/08/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

Keywords

Overview

This study assessed the extent to which participatory methods had been used by CIMMYT, and how the scientists perceived them. Results suggest that participatory approaches at the Center were largely ‘functional’ – that is, aimed at improving the efficiency and relevance of research – and had in fact added value to the research efforts. The […]

Showing 465 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘An Intellectual history of the United Nations’ and ‘Is `Development Studies’ a discipline or a pig’s ear? Some thoughts on the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

Research Round-up

01/08/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Research round-up based on ‘Social capital: red herring or right on? the Jamaican perspective’ and ‘Maori community-based sustainable development: a research progress report’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

01/02/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

Keywords

Overview

Since March 2000, in partnership with the Women’s Centre of Montreal and other units at Montreal universities, McGill’s Centre for Developing-Area Studies has carried out an action-research programme on gender and human security issues in the context of war and reconstruction. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers and activists has been working locally with women refugees, […]

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Research for Influencing Diagram

13/05/2019

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This diagram is designed to help to you plan research for influencing. It will help you to think through what you are trying to influence with evidence, who you are trying to influence and how, how to focus your research, which approaches will be most effective, and how to engage audiences to maximise influence. You […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Fostering Participation in Research

29/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Research needs to be more inclusive of the voices of people affected by the issues at hand. This guideline has been written for anyone conducting, commissioning or managing research who thinks it would benefit from being more participatory but is unsure how to do this.

Journal article

Further resources for participatory research and gender analysis

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

So much work has been done on participatory research and gender analysis – their implementation, evaluation, and institutionalisation – that it is difficult to recommend a limited set of resources. The context here is ‘challenges to operationalising participatory research and gender analysis’, so we have sought out resources which shed light on some new practical […]

Journal article

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

01/08/2008

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participatory research practice at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)

Keywords

Overview

This study assessed the extent to which participatory methods had been used by CIMMYT, and how the scientists perceived them. Results suggest that participatory approaches at the Center were largely ‘functional’ – that is, aimed at improving the efficiency and relevance of research – and had in fact added value to the research efforts. The […]