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  Closing the gap between promise and practice: a framework for planning, monitoring and evaluating social development networks

  Impact Alliance, 2004

  With a focus on US development institutions this paper addresses some of the key difficulties inherent in the donor-network relationship and programme implementation.
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  NGOS: fighting poverty, hurting the poor

  Foreign Policy [Journal], 2004

  In this short, polemical article, the author argues that NGO advocacy groups are acting against the interests of the poor and of international development through unreasonable criticism of the World Bank and similar agencies. The author argues that, in a typical situation, the Bank designs a reasonable project, which inevitably has flaws.
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  Asynchronous discussion groups as small world and scale free networks

  First Monday, 2004

  What is the network form of online discussion groups? What are the topological parameters delineating the interaction on such groups? This report analyses the dynamics in online discussion groups, especially in the context of assessing and understanding the symmetry of participation and contribution to such groups.
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  Building knowledge societies: the renewal of democratic practices in knowledge societies

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004

  This paper looks at the political consequences of knowledge societies (social groups using ICTs to communicate knowledge), in particular the policy implications for promoting democracy and good governance.
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  Current state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED and
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  Immersions for policy and personal change: reflection and learning for development professionals

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  Senior staff in aid agencies are involved in daily decisions about policy and practice which have direct impact on the lives of poor people.
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  If relationships matter, how can they be improved?: learning about relationships in development

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  It is now widely accepted, particularly in the private sector, that organisational learning improves performance. This paper explores the observation that much learning is done in the person-to person and organisation-to-organisation relationships that make up the daily course of development work.
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  Participatory learning groups in an aid bureaucracy

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  This paper narrates the process of establishing and running two participatory learning groups in the Swedish official development agency, Sida: one in the Stockholm headquarters, and one in the Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi.
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  Language, culture and communication in development cooperation: on the role of ICTs in networking online communities of practice

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004

  This article looks at the impact of ICTs on inter cultural communication and language change. It focuses on the use of ICTs in networking online natural resource management communities of practice. It proposes a framework for analysing the use of language and its impact on culture in online communication and networking
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  Tools for development: a handbook for those engaged in development activity

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  Tools for Development draws together a range of techniques designed to help DFID officers and others undertake development activities and interventions of any size and kind.Topics covered includeStakeholder Analysis Problem and Situational AnalysisVisioningLogical Frameworks Risk ManagementParticipatory methodologies and managementTeamworking.

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