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Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

Journal article

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 […]

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

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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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Humanitarian

Photo captions and credit Oxfam, together with partners in Turkiye and Syria working to reach nearly 2 million people affected by the quake with aid and support. Tineke D’haese/Oxfam

Journal article

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

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Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

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Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]

Journal article

Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestry – its plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east […]

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

01/02/2005

7 pages long

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

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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, […]

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

01/04/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

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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 […]

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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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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 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

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 […]

Webpage

Humanitarian

Photo captions and credit Oxfam, together with partners in Turkiye and Syria working to reach nearly 2 million people affected by the quake with aid and support. Tineke D’haese/Oxfam

Journal article

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

Keywords

Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]

Journal article

Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestry – its plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east […]

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 […]

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 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Giving Helpful Feedback on Draft Research Papers and Reports

09/03/2019

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Commenting on draft papers and reports is an important, if unglamorous role. It stimulates collective discussion and builds capacity and networks both within and between organizations. Constructive feedback can make all the difference to the quality of research publications and the morale of those involved. Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline provides concise […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

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 […]

Webpage

Humanitarian

Photo captions and credit Oxfam, together with partners in Turkiye and Syria working to reach nearly 2 million people affected by the quake with aid and support. Tineke D’haese/Oxfam

Journal article

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Hanya ada Satu Kata: Lawan! On decolonising and building a mutual collaborative research practice on gender and climate change

Keywords

Overview

Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with many of our experiences in working to decolonise climate knowledge production. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ We critically reflect on […]

Journal article

Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestry – its plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east […]

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 […]

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 […]