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    Towards a conceptual framework for evaluating international social change networks

    Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS, 2003
    The paper provides several keys to effectively evaluating the impact of international social change networks.The authors describe a network as an eminently political act, with its fundamental function being to organise the power and action of its members into a collective force for social change.
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    A leadership strategy for reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa: the agriculture-nutrition advantage

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2005
    This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.
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    Doing interdisciplinary research on development and the environment: critical reflections on SUM’s experience

    Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2005
    This paper presents the experiences which the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) of the University of Oslo has gained from the last 10 years of undertaking interdisciplinary research on development and environment.Lessons learned are:the link from research to policy does not, in practice, proceed according to a linear, rational model, based simply on reliable ‘evidence’ -
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    Networking for learning: what can participants do?

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004
    Why should anyone and especially donors invest in networking of civil society actors? What is its specific contribution to learning and innovation for sustainable development? The answer to this question seems quite obvious: to a large degree, learning and innovation in development and development policy emerges as a result of multi-actor networking, both spontaneous and organised.
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    Scaling up and out: achieving widespread impact through agricultural research

    Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Colombia, 2004
    This book explores how to achieve and demonstrate greater impacts in agricultural research: i.e. how more people over greater areas can benefit as well as how useful approaches within agricultural research can be institutionalised.
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    Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed mindlines?: ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care

    British Medical Journal, 2004
    This paper looks at how primary care clinicians (general practitioners and practice nurses) derive their individual and collective healthcare decisions.It finds that clinicians rarely accessed and used explicit evidence from research or other sources directly, but relied on "mindlines": collectively reinforced, internalised, tacit guidelines.
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    Global action networks: a global invention helping business make globalisation work for all

    Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2003
    This paper explores what it considers to be a new type of organisation: Global Action Networks (GANs). These networks cross important divides such as developed-developing countries, business-government-civil society, cultures and knowledge disciplines.
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    Cinderella's slipper: sondeo surveys and technology fairs for gauging demand

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    This paper reports on the findings and recommendations of the INNOVA project (strengthening technology innovation systems in potato-based agriculture in Bolivia). Sondeo (informal) surveys were carried out in three smallholder communities in Bolivia, to gauge the implicit demand for agricultural technologies.
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    Strengthening public safety nets: can the informal sector show the way?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
    Development practioners and policymakers have increasingly turned to the issue of vulnerability as both a symptom and a source of poverty.
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    NEPAD and the African Civil Society

    Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2004
    The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a plan that aims to address key social, economic and political priorities of the continent. It is not a continent-wide plan, but based on certain principles with set conditions that African countries need to satisfy in order to become effective members.

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