Download or read book RRA Notes Number 15 Special Issue on Applications of Wealth Ranking written by IIED. and published by IIED. This book was released on 1992 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RRA Notes Number 16 Special Issue on Applications for Health written by IIED. and published by IIED. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rra Notes Number 20 Special Issue on Livestock written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Issue on Participatory Tools and Methods in Urban Areas written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Handbook on Using Participatory Monitoring and Learning Tools written by G. Jayanthi and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the concepts behind participatory monitoring and learning (PM&L), such as collaborative review and problem solving through the generation and use of information on a regular basis, this reference focuses on how this system leads to corrective action and improvement within a project, based on shared decision making from a number of stakeholders. Offering field-tested techniques from an initiative that experimented with PM&L within three World Bank–assisted rural development areas, this resource provides facilitators with practical information on how to prepare and apply these tools, as well as how to present the results.

Download or read book Rra Notes Number 18 written by Iied. and published by IIED. This book was released on 1993 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research Skills for Policy and Development written by Alan Thomas and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike a simple h̀ow to' guide, Research Skills for Policy and Development provides a critique of various methods and situates these approaches within r̀eal life' organisational settings, enabling those working in or studying development to locate, evaluate and use relevant information quickly but rigorously. The successor to Finding Out Fast (SAGE, 1998) it reflects the changes in development management theories and practice over the last seven years, and includes new material and advice on critical use of the web as a resource and research tool.

Download or read book Developing Regional Poverty Profiles Based on Local Perceptions written by Helle Munk Ravnborg and published by CIAT. This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RRA Notes Number 19 Special Issue on Training written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Q squared Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal written by S. M. Ravi Kanbur and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly It Is Recognized That Policy Design For Attacking Poverty Requires An Approach That Makes Best Use Of The Relative Strengths Of Qualitative And Quantitative Analytical Tools, Applied To The Situation At Hand. This Volume Brings Together The World Leaders In Analysis From Both Sides Of The Divide To Push The Dialogue Forward.

Download or read book RRA Notes Number 17 written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolutions in Development Inquiry written by Robert Chambers and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future. This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the dinosaurs of large-scale multi-subject questionnaire surveys, and the biased visits and perceptions of rural development tourism and urban-based professionals, there follows a look at the explosive proliferation of methodologies and methods of recent years. These include rapid rural appraisal (RRA) participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and dramatic developments in the still largely unrecognized fields of participatory numbers and statistics, and of participatory mapping and GIS. Chambers shows how these can empower local people and provide rigorous and valid substitutes for some more traditional methods of inquiry. Also presented is a repertoire for offsetting the biases of the urban trap, which has become so serious for officials and aid agency staff. Importantly, Chambers points out that we are now in a different space, methodologically, from a few years ago. He makes the case that participatory methodologies, evolved through creative and eclectic pluralism, can be a transformative wave for the future as drivers of personal, professional and institutional change. This book is for all who are concerned with development, regardless of profession, discipline or organization, who seek to be abreast of the revolutionary breakthroughs in approaches and methods of inquiry of recent years, and what Chambers calls their 'unlimited potentials'. Published with IDS.

Download or read book RRA Notes Number 13 Participatory Rural Appraisal written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 80 Tools for Participatory Development written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Many Dimensions of Poverty written by N. Kakwani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.

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Download or read book Q Squared written by Paul Shaffer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such inquiry is a series of research initiatives that have used mixed method, combined qualitative and quantitative, or Q-Squared ( Q2) approaches, to poverty analysis. The Q2 literature highlights the vast range of analytical tools within the social sciences that may be used to understand and explain social phenomena, along with interesting research results. This literature serves as a lens to probe issues about knowledge claims made in poverty debates concerning who are the poor (identification analysis) and why they are poor (causal analysis). Implicitly or explicitly, questions are raised about the reasons for emphasising different dimensions of poverty and favouring different units of knowledge, the basis for distinguishing valid and invalid claims, the meaning of causation, and the nature of causal inference, and so forth. Q2 provides an entry point to address foundational issues about assumptions underlying approaches to poverty, and applied issues about the strengths and limitations of different research methods and the ways they may be fruitfully combined. Together, the strands of this inquiry make a case for methodological pluralism on the grounds that knowledge is partial, empirical adjudication imperfect, social phenomena complex, and mixed methods add value for understanding and explanation. Ultimately, the goals of understanding and explanation are best served if research questions dictate the choice of methodological approach rather than the other way around.