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Searching with a thematic focus on Research to policy networks, Research to policy

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  Share and share alike: evaluating networks

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Networking has expanded considerably in recent years as the value of ‘knowledge’ is increasingly recognised in the development arena.
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  Making knowledge networks work for the poor

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2003

  This paper reports on a study to consider the role of a network in improving the integration and co-ordination internationally of information and knowledge resources on appropriate technology.The study argues that there is poor co-ordination amongst information providers and that consequently poor people have difficulty accessing the right kind of information.
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  Strengthening the knowledge and information systems of the urban poor (KIS)

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2002

  Poor men and women living in urban informal settlements do need knowledge and information to cope with risks and improve their livelihoods, but they sometimes find it hard to access. How do the urban poor obtain information and develop knowledge? Do they get what they require and is it appropriate?
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  Strategic intentions: managing knowledge networks for sustainable development

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2001

  Guide written for practitioners who are working with different models of individual and institutional knowledge collaboration.
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  Network of nomads: negotiating access to health resources among pastoralist women in Chad

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  Health resources among pastoralist groups are strongly gendered and while certain health resources fall within the female domain (e.g.
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  From civil society to policy research: the case of the Soros Network and its Roma policies

  Global Development Network, 2001

  This paper explores the process of policy making in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe by examining the role of the Soros Network in relation to the protection of Roma rightsThe paper argues that in the transition economies, many policy fields are still considerably undeveloped and in need of conceptually sound, efficient and consistent public policies.
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  Information communication technologies, poverty and empowerment

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  Increasingly, questions concerning who will benefit and who will be left out of the ICTrevolution are coming to the fore in policy debates.
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  A Social Network Approach to Analyzing Research Systems: A Study of Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala, India

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1997

  Describes a social network approach to analyzing science and technology systems, taking into account the primary sectors involved in agriculture and natural resource management. It outlines a methodology for producing an inventory of the set of relationships that actually occur rather than purely formal, “on paper” linkages, which may or may not be operational.
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  Telecenters: Education and Community Networking Using Information and Communication Technologies

  Educational Resources Information Center, 1998

  Provides information resources on telecenters for community educators, K-12 students, college and university students, parents, researchers, librarians, policy makers, and the general public. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to the concept of telecenters, and to promote networking, information exchange, research, and further development of this concept.
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  Networking and rural development through sustainable forest management: frameworks for pluralistic approaches

  Unasylva, FAO, 1998

  An examination of attempts to build social capital (networks built on relationships of trust) for rural development through sustainable forest management.

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