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 accountability framework for organisations conducting research (whether civil society, universities, private or public sector). The database will make available tools which will help research managers reflect on and improve the accountability of the programs they manage . Specifically, we are looking for descriptions and accounts of innovative tools and processes which fall within the following broad areas:
- Tools suitable for the monitoring and evaluation of research and advocacy;
- Tools for participatory planning of research;
- Tools to assist organisational learning and change;
- Good practices and policies of transparency in research;
- Good practices for working accountably in partnerships and networks;
- Community engagement strategies with research participants;
- Tools to ensure you ‘close the loop’ and manage feedback from your research participants;
- Examples of where organisations conducting research have integrated external stakeholders into governance structures; and
- Ethics standards for participatory and applied research.
Ideally, the description would take the form of a document or case study. For those interested in submitting a tool, please get in contact with the One World Trust team at apro@oneworldtrust.org. For more information on the project, please visit our website. All relevant tools will be included in the database, which we propose to put online and publicly available by August 2010. If we think the tool is not relevant, we do promise to get back to you and explain why! Thanks very much for your time, Brendan.
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Brendan Whitty
Principal Researcher
One World Trust
3 Whitehall Court, London, SW1A 2EL, UK
> Now Available! The APRO toolkit provides guidelines outlining accountability principles for research organisations.
http://www.oneworldtrust.org
Tel +44 (0)20 7766 3463
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