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  Education and conflict: research and research possibilities

  National Foundation for Educational Research, 2005

  This report examines the existing and potential research into the relationship between education and conflict, peace building and post-conflict situations, both nationally and internationally.
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  The innovation-based competitiveness of the Romanian economy in the framework of the Lisbon Strategy

  The Romanian Center for Economic Policies - Centrul Roman de Politici Economice, Romania, 2004

  In the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, the European Union set the goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by the year 2010.
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  Understanding urban chronic poverty: crossing the qualitative

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005

  This paper summarises the recent quantitative and qualitative evidence on urban poverty in Ethiopia. The author contends that the analysis of poverty dynamics is difficult and has been neglected, hence most of the studies reviewed here focus on urban poverty at a particular point in time.
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  Radio broadcasting for health: a decision-maker’s guide

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This paper from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) examines the role of radio broadcasting in promoting better health for poor people. Topics covered include the development of health messages to achieve social and behavioural change, and the use of radio in mobilising communities to claim their rights and voice their healthcare needs.
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  The role and effectiveness of collaborative knowledge systems in health promotion and health support

  Tavistock Institute, UK, 2004

  This report argues that the effectiveness of collaborative knowledge systems (with an ICT component) in providing health information and support services is dependent more on social, cultural, institutional and economic factors than on the "technical" properties of the platforms and tools themselves.
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  Organisational learning in NGOs: creating the motive, means and opportunity

  International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2005

  This paper explores the importance of organisational learning in NGOs, drawing on examples gathered from interviews mainly with Northern NGO staff and from an extensive review of the literature.It looks into why NGOs need to provide the motive, means and opportunity for organisational learning, and introduces practical examples of how pioneering NGOs are doing this.It suggests how to combine
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  Overview of the community based monitoring system (CBMS)

  Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies Programme, 2005

  This paper provides an overview of Community Based Monitoring Systems (CBMS), and examines the different aspects of implementing a community based monitoring system, using a case study of CBMS implementation in the Philippines.Growing demand for a regular source of up-to-date information that is disaggregated at the community level has led to the creation of a CBMS.
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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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  Reaching the last mile: knowledge sharing for development

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2004

  The paper characterises the problem of understanding the local context of demand for knowledge by poor people as “reaching the last mile”. From a range of practical studies the paper offers some evidence of ways in which the local context contributes to successful knowledge sharing.
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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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