Archive for December, 2010
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Date: 29th March 2011
Venue: in the Netherlands
NOW CANCELLED. Further information will be provided when available
With pleasure we would like to announce an expert seminar with Dr. Michael Quinn Patton on 'Developmental evaluation - new kid on the evaluation block'.
Developmental evaluation is based on insights from complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
Source: Lindberg, S., 2010, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 117-142 VIA Governance and Social Development Resource Centre ]
Summary: What is the role of clientelism in African politics? How are MPs held accountable in Ghana? This article examines the daily accountability pressures and ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
[from the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre ]
Request: Summarise recent research findings and intellectual debate on how to best monitor and evaluate civil service performance, including international best practice and issues around standardised indicators (along the lines of the PEFA framework).
Key ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
....A question posed to the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
"Key findings: DFID appears to have gone the furthest among aid agencies in developing the concept of ‘value for money’ (VFM). It is the only agency that explicitly uses the terminology frequently in its policies ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
ALINe publication: Sumner, A., Masset, E. and Mulmi, R. (2010) IDS Practice Paper, under review. Available online
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In the current context of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, development resources are likely to be getting scarcer. Resources for development research are too. The set of circumstances generating the ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
[from the IDS website]
McGee,R. and Gaventa, J. - 23-Nov-10
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Transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits. In the development context, the argument is that through greater accountability, ‘leaky ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
...specifically, Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development, and her colleagues, on Tuesday 16 November at 10.30am, on the subject of DFID in 2009-10 and the Resource Accounts 2009-10. The proceedings can be viewed here on Parliament TV
Some of the questions asked:
You have a sharply rising ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Date: December 16-18, 2010
Venue: University of Brighton, UK
The University of Brighton will be hosting a groundbreaking, EU funded, international conference on the theme of Making the Invisible Visible: An Emerging Community of Practice in Indicators, Sustainability and Values, bringing together the leading thinkers, practitioners and organizations in these fields. The ...
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