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  Agricultural science and technology policy for growth and poverty reduction

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2005

  Examining public-private partnerships, the authors speculate that these may become a dominant mode of funding for agricultural research in Latin America.
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  Perceptions and practice: an anthology of impact assessment experiences

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2006

  This is a collection of experiences (recounted through interviews and transcribed into stories) assessing the impact of information-related development projects.
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  Science and citizens: global and local voices

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This IDS Policy Briefing argues that public engagement in scientific debates and policy processes is necessary to address how research agendas are framed and the social purposes they serve, and to ensure that poorer people and communities will benefit from them.Key questions include:what new perspectives on the links between science, technical expertise and citizen participation emerge
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  When will we ever learn?: improving lives through impact evaluation

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  This report by the Evaluation Gap Working Group provides a strategic solution to the evidence gap in development programming.
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  Knowledge management and natural resources in Africa: perspectives from two networks

  Community of Practice, Knowledge Management for International Development, KM4DEV, 2006

  This article compares the experience of two knowledge management (KM) and natural resource management (NRM) networks in Africa, supported and facilitated by the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net) and FRAME.
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  Monitoring and evaluating advocacy: a scoping study

  ActionAid International, 2001

  In response to ActionAid’s new strategy, Fighting Poverty Together, this scooping study attempts to identify and document how various agencies and institutions have approached the assessment of advocacy, focusing particularly on approaches of NGOs.The study identifies a number of aspects that need to be taken into account when analysing advocacy work:identifying the different dimensions
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  Going beyond research: a key issues paper raising discussion points related to dissemination, utilisation and impact of reproductive and sexual health research

  Safe Passages to Adulthood, 2006

  This report was developed as part of the ’Safe Passages to Adulthood,’ a five-year program funded by DfID for research into young people’s sexual and reproductive health in poorer country settings. The report suggests that in order to enhance the possibility for research findings to be incorporated into policy development, researchers could collaborate with macro level discussion makers.
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  Threshold concepts and the integration of understanding in economics

  Institute for Education Policy Research, Staffordshire University, 2006

  This paper outlines the recently developed idea of Threshold Concepts and explains how this idea may be used to describe the progress of learning in economics. A range of evidence is presented to illustrate the existence and implications of threshold concepts in economics.
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  Towards knowledge societies

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005

  This report makes the distinction between knowledge societies and the information society.
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  Tips for using the media

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper gives some advice on how to work with and utilise the media in communicating about research.

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