Archive for July, 2008

Potential Human Rights Uses of Network Analysis and Mapping

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 ...

A Handbook Of Data Collection Tools: Companion To “A Guide To Measuring Advocacy And Policy”

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 ...

Advocacy & Policy Change Composite Logic Model

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 ...

Public consultation on DFID’s new performance frameworks with UNDP, UNFPA and UNAIDS

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 ...

Outcome-Based Conditionality: Too Good To Be True?

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 ...

Does Empowerment Work?

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 ...

Efficient linking of lists in humanitarian data management

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, ...

Tracing Power and Influence in Networks:Net-Map as a Tool for Research and Strategic Network Planning

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 ...

4th UK Social Networks conference

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 ...

AfrEA-NONIE-3ie International Conference on Impact Evaluation for Development Effectiveness

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 ...