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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’

01/08/2011

13 pages long

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In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa

01/11/2010

12 pages long

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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […]

Showing 463 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

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

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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, […]

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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

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 […]

Journal article

Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’

01/08/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses […]

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 […]

Journal article

The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […]

Showing 463 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

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 […]

Journal article

Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’

01/08/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses […]

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 […]

Journal article

The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa

01/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […]