Research methods
- Participatory Impact assessment for livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector
- A. Catley; J. Burns; D. Abebe; O. Suji / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
- The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions. Institutionalising good practice i...
- A tool supporting collaboration amongst qualitative researchers
- N. Singal; R. Jeffery / Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
- Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the value of qualitative social research in the South. While there is a welcome recognition of the potential inherent in rigorous and good quality qualitative approaches to ...
- Reviewing the policy context for research publication in South Africa
- E. Gray / Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, 2007
- Publishing scholarly output in Africa is hindered by a lack of resources, arising from unwillingness on the part of both government and higher education institutions to fund research publication – or even to regard scholarly pub...
- How to develop an Open Access journal
- D.J. Solomon / Developing Open Access Journals, 2008
- Open Access (OA) journals are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in crea...
- Analysis and assessment using HEAs
- International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
- The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s food and non-food needs and identify ap...
- A partnership approach to tackling poverty
- S. Welford; J. Nelson; T. Viard / ATD Fourth World, 2008
- In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A partnership approach to tackling pover...
- A workshop facilitation tool for networks addressing HIV
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007
- Civil society networks play a vital role in supporting and developing key services required to respond to the HIV epidemic. Those networks that represent communities key to the dynamics of HIV transmission are particularly important, ...
- Indicators and principles for microinsurance
- J. Wipf; D. Garand / Global Information on MicroInsurance, 2008
- Microinsurance is regarded by some as a risk management mechanism that the poor can use to compensate for the lack of appropriate state-sponsored social protection programmes. Alternatively, it is viewed by others as an opportunity to...
- How improved data provision can assist pension policy
- R. Tanton; Y. Vidyattama; J. McNamara / National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008
- In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about the adequacy of the old age pension to provide an acceptable standard of living. Projected increases in the number of age pension recipients in the future, as well as ...
- Measuring corruption
- R. June; M. Laberge (ed); J. Nahem (ed) / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2008
- Over the past few years, a flood of new work has emerged challenging the validity of the traditional measurements of corruption and arguing for new and improved tools for national policy makers, civil society and donors alik...
- Participatory Impact assessment for livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector
- A. Catley; J. Burns; D. Abebe; O. Suji / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
- The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions. Institutionalising good practice i...
- A tool supporting collaboration amongst qualitative researchers
- N. Singal; R. Jeffery / Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
- Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the value of qualitative social research in the South. While there is a welcome recognition of the potential inherent in rigorous and good quality qualitative approaches to ...
- Reviewing the policy context for research publication in South Africa
- E. Gray / Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, 2007
- Publishing scholarly output in Africa is hindered by a lack of resources, arising from unwillingness on the part of both government and higher education institutions to fund research publication – or even to regard scholarly pub...
- How to develop an Open Access journal
- D.J. Solomon / Developing Open Access Journals, 2008
- Open Access (OA) journals are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in crea...
- Analysis and assessment using HEAs
- International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
- The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s food and non-food needs and identify ap...
- A partnership approach to tackling poverty
- S. Welford; J. Nelson; T. Viard / ATD Fourth World, 2008
- In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A partnership approach to tackling pover...
- A workshop facilitation tool for networks addressing HIV
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007
- Civil society networks play a vital role in supporting and developing key services required to respond to the HIV epidemic. Those networks that represent communities key to the dynamics of HIV transmission are particularly important, ...
- Indicators and principles for microinsurance
- J. Wipf; D. Garand / Global Information on MicroInsurance, 2008
- Microinsurance is regarded by some as a risk management mechanism that the poor can use to compensate for the lack of appropriate state-sponsored social protection programmes. Alternatively, it is viewed by others as an opportunity to...
- How improved data provision can assist pension policy
- R. Tanton; Y. Vidyattama; J. McNamara / National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008
- In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about the adequacy of the old age pension to provide an acceptable standard of living. Projected increases in the number of age pension recipients in the future, as well as ...
- Measuring corruption
- R. June; M. Laberge (ed); J. Nahem (ed) / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2008
- Over the past few years, a flood of new work has emerged challenging the validity of the traditional measurements of corruption and arguing for new and improved tools for national policy makers, civil society and donors alik...
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