Archive for the ‘Networks: Analysis and Evaluation’ Category

The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

by Rick Davies (April 2009). This paper was produced for the Communication for Social Change Consortium, as a contribution to their paper for UNAIDS on reviewing approaches to monitoring and evaluation and advocating an expanded monitoring and evaluation framework for social change communication. All rights to this paper are with the ...

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Strengthening humanitarian networks: Applying the network functions approach

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ben Ramalingam, Enrique Mendizabal and Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop April 2008 >This note< offers a simple, flexible and powerful methodology — the network functions approach (NFA) — that can be applied to analyse and strengthen humanitarian and development networks. Based on research undertaken at ODI and elsewhere, the NFA suggests there ...

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Social Network Analysis And the Evaluation of Leadership Networks

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Bruce Hoppe, Ph.D. Connective Associates LLC bruce@connectiveassociates.com Claire Reinelt, Ph.D. Leadership Learning Community claire@leadershiplearning.org January 19, 2009 Abstract Leadership development practitioners have become increasingly interested in networks as a way to strengthen relationships among leaders in fields, communities, and organizations. This paper offers a framework for conceptualizing different types of leadership networks and uses case ...

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Stakeholder analysis and social network analysis in natural resource management

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Christina Prell, Klaus Hubacekb, Mark Reed, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield and  Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds Full text here Introduction Many conservation initiatives fail because they pay inadequate attention to the interests and characteristics of stakeholders. (Grimble and Wellard, 1997). As a consequence, stakeholder ...

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Evaluating international advocacy networks

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Two papers by Ricardo Wilson-Grau Evaluating the Effects of International Advocacy Networks, Ricardo Wilson-Grau and Martha Nu. "This "think piece" will first sketch the special challenges of evaluating the effects of the advocacy work of international social change networks. I will then present the approach to evaluating advocacy that I use. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Net-Map Training in Washington

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Net-Map Tool- Training for Research and Impact Management Net-Map is a visualization approach to Social Network Analysis that was developed by IFPRI post-doc Eva Schiffer in her research on multi-stakeholder water governance in northern Ghana. Net-Map is a tool for understanding and improving complex social situations with multiple actors, diverse ...

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The Social Framework as an alternative to the Logical Framework

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Caveat: This post describe a proposal by Rick Davies that is still a work in progress, being tested to see how well it works and where it works. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Please use the Comment box at the end of this posting. A Social Framework… is a format for ...

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