Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

Invitation to submit research accountability tools and systems for online database

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Dear colleagues I'm writing to ask you to submit any tools you know of, or have developed, which you think could help build the accountability of research organisations. These will be entered into a publicly available online database.   The One World Trust has been working with our partners to formulate an ...

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Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?

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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3ie will award up to $10 million in research grants to improve development effectiveness

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Open Window Round 2 - Deadline: 27 November 2009 To enhance development effectiveness and ultimately improve people’s lives in developing countries, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has launched a request for proposals (RFP) for quality impact evaluations. This RFP is the second round under 3ie’s Open Window, which accepts ...

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Accountability Principles for Research Organisations

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

A report by Brendan Whitty,  One World Trust, 2009? This report develops a framework for analysing accountability from a normative and instrumental perspective allows think-tanks and research institutes to identify and balance their stakeholders; presents guidelines to assist the practical implementation of accountability principles The versions available Accountability Principles for Research Organisations Executive Summary Accountability Principles ...

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One World Trust on Accountability of Research Organisations

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

"The Accountability Principles of Research Organisations (APRO) report provides a framework for establishing accountability good practices and principles for policy-oriented research organisations working in developing countries. It discusses how One World Trust's core principles of accountability - participation, transparency, evaluation and complaints handling - can be applied to research. In ...

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