Archive for the ‘Quantative methods’ Category
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
(from New York Times, found by Aldo Benini)
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
Published: NYT, November 20, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — The Trixie Telemetry company believes in hard, quantifiable truths. It believes that there is a right time and wrong time to breast-feed a baby. It believes that certain hours and rooms are better for ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
by Christine Sijbesma and Leonie Postma
Published in Water International, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2008 pp. 150-161 (Full text >here<)
Abstract
Participatory methods are increasingly used in water-related development and management. Most information gathered with such methods is qualitative. The general view is that such information cannot be aggregated and is therefore ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
The first two 3ie working papers are now available:
Working Paper No. 1, Reflections on some current debates in impact evaluation, ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Sabine Garbarino and Jeremy Holland, March 2009
Issues paper | Workshop report
There has been a renewed interest in impact evaluation and measuring results in recent years amongst development agencies and donors. This paper reviews the case for promoting and formalising qualitative and combined methods for impact evaluation and measuring results, as part ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
"This report presents one of the first formal analyses, outside the microfinance area, of the efficiency (as different from the effectiveness) of a development NGO program. The author [Aldo Benini], who invites comments and suggestions, offers this summary:
“Empowerment, a concept with a successful twenty-century cultural career, has been recognized for ...
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