Learners, practitioners and teachers Handbook on monitoring, evaluating and managing knowledge for policy inluence

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 ...

Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the welfare impact of policy-orientated research in agriculture

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 ...

Launch of online database of research accountability tools

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 ...

“Impact 2.0: Collaborative technologies connecting research and policy”

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 ...

Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods

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 ...

International Summer School on Evaluation Research

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...