Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Authors: Vanesa Weyrauch, Julia D´Agostino, Clara Richards
Date Published: 11 February 2011 By CIPPEC. Available as pdf
Description: The evidence based policy influence is a topic of growing interest to researchers, social organizations, experts, government officials, policy research institutes and universities. However, they all admit that the path from the production of ...
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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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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Announcement: 7 September: launch of online database of research accountability tools
The One World Trust, with support from the IDRC, has created an interactive, online database of tools to help organisations conducting policy relevant research become more accountable.
Processes of innovation and research are fundamental to improvements in quality of life and ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
"Impact 2.0: Collaborative technologies connecting research and policy" is a two-year research project that seeks to develop a body of knowledge about the use of Web 2.0 in policy-oriented research and design in Latin America and to identify, document and promote good practices and emerging opportunities related to the use ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
David McDonald, Gabriele Bammer, Peter Deane, 2009 Download pdf
Ed: Although about "research integration" the book is also very relevant to the planning and evaluation of development projects
"Research on real-world problems—like restoration of wetlands, the needs of the elderly, effective disaster response and the future of the airline industry—requires ...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Date: 30 August to 3 September 2010
Venue: Lille, France
Call for papers – Deadline: 7 May 2010
The Network of Researchers on Evaluation of the French Evaluation Society (Société Française de l'Evaluation) has the pleasure of:
informing you that it is organising the International Summer School on Evaluation Research ...
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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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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, 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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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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