Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
>A report< to the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Skye Bender-deMoll April 28, 2008. 47 pages
Abstract: This report investigates potential new tools and existing applications of network analysis and network mapping to assist or facilitate human rights work. It provides a ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Author: Jane Reisman, Anne Gienapp, and Sarah Stachowiak
Publisher: Organizational Research Services
Publication Date: 2007
Abstract
What are examples of data collection tools for evaluating advocacy?
This handbook of tools is a companion to ORS' "A Guide To Measuring Advocacy And Policy". The data collection tools included in the handbook have actually ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Author: Coffman, Julia
Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project
Publication Date: September 2007
Abstract
Are there shared elements-goals, outcomes, indicators-across different types of advocacy work? Can we create a common vocabulary for the advocacy evaluation field?
The Composite Logic Model ("CLM") and associated materials was developed by Julia Coffman from Harvard Family Research ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Inn the Consultation section of the DFID website information is now available on three proposed performance frameworks for the UNDP, UNFPA and UNAIDS
Each section provides the following information:
The DFID/UN... Institutional Strategy
Further details and background information
A list of questions
An email address to send comments to
A deadline date for submission of comments
It ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Author: Nuria Molina. Date: 2008. Size: 42 pages
"Does linking aid disbursement to a results agenda (outcome-based conditionality) actually build recipient ownership and development effectiveness? This report for the European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD) analyses the different interpretations of outcome-based aid delivery adopted by the World Bank ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
“Does Empowerment Work?: Underlying concepts and the experience of two community empowerment programs in Cambodia and Tanzania ” (2008), by Aldo Benini.
This book length document "investigates the effectiveness in poor rural societies of a concept of modernity that has enjoyed an explosive ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
"Aldo Benini has produced a technical note reviewing efficient ways of linking lists when the linkage variables (e.g. name of person, village) have significant spelling differences, or the lists are of different size.
Abstract: ”Relief workers sometimes have to match two or more lists of persons (food aid recipients, camp populations, ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Eva Schiffer and Douglas Waale
Discussion Paper No. 772 June 2008
Related Resource Net-Map Toolbox Blog
Abstract: Believing that complex problems call for complex solutions and that stakeholders should have a say in policies that concern them, policymakers have strongly promoted the development of forums and organizations made up of many stakeholders ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Date: Friday 18 July 2008 - Sunday 20 July 2008
Venue: University of Greenwich, London
"The UK Social Network Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioral scientists, sociologists, educationalists, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Date: 30 March -3 April 2009
Venue: Cairo, Egypt
"After four very successful conferences over the past few years (held twice in Nairobi, in Cape Town and in Niamey), AfrEA wishes to announce that its Fifth Conference will be an international event hosted in partnership with NONIE (www.worldbank.org/ieg/nonie) and 3ie (www.3ieimpact.org).
...the AfrEA-NONIE-3ie ...
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