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  Is evidence-based government possible?

  Policy Hub, UK Cabinet Office, 2004

  This lecture looks at whether evidence-based policy and evidence-based government is possible, and whether it is more than a rhetorical device.
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  Strengthening health systems: the role and promise of policy and systems research

  Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, 2004

  Much is known about the barriers or constraints to scaling up health services. However, remarkably little is known about how best to relax these constraints.
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  Scholarly communication toolkit

  Association of College and Research Libraries, USA, 2005

  This toolkit is aimed at academic publishers, academic administrators and librarians. It is designed to support advocacy efforts by these groups for working toward changing the scholarly publishing system It covers issues such as journal pricing and author's copyright.
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  Mind the gap: policy development and research on conflict issues

  Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, 2005

  This report presents the findings of a project examining the relationship between the research and policy worlds, looking at the extent to which, if any, research on conflict issues is being used in the development of policy.
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  The Washington Consensus is dead!: long live the meta-narrative!

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This report critically examines the current discourse on international development policy.
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  A decade of development thinking

  2004

  This paper surveys the economic development of Latin America across a ten year period from 1994 to 2004. Throughout the region, economic volatility, low growth, employment, poverty, and inequality have been priority development concerns.
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  Information management for development organisations

  Oxfam, 2003

  The aim of this book is to help managers within development organisations to think through the question of how information and its communication can be managed.
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  Avoiding irrelevant information: strengthening information and knowledge networks for the poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Information services on appropriate technology (AT) provided to the poor do not benefit them as much as they could. Although a wide range of organisations provide such resources to the poor, inappropriate services and lack of co-ordination constrain their effectiveness.
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  Communication for social change: a position paper and conference report

  Rockefeller Foundation, 1999

  This position paper from the Rockefeller Foundation sets out a vision of communications for social change, based on the findings of two conferences. It argues for a new approach to communications in development that builds on and moves beyond traditional approaches, and capitalises on opportunities presented by the modern communications environment.
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  Research on the current state of PRS monitoring systems

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  This report reviews recent literature on the monitoring of Poverty Reduction Strategies. It discusses four challenging issues: institutional arrangements; the role of non-government organisations; implementation and intermediate output monitoring; using results.The main findings from this study are:severe capacity constraints are not sufficiently acknowledged.

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