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19 February 2019
Published by: Taylor & Francis
This paper examines if and how agricultural researchers and extension officers can see, understand and change processes that exclude...
7 January 2019
Published by: IDS
While contribution analysis provides a step-by-step approach to verify whether and why an intervention is a contributory factor to development impact, most contribution analysis studies do not quantify the ‘share of contribution’ that can be attributed to a particular support intervention. Commissioners of evaluations, however, often want to understand the size or importance of a contribution, not least for accountability purposes.
31 October 2018
Published by: IDS
This IDS Practice Paper in Brief shares learning about how to engage with inequality in research and development interventions focused on building resilience of local communities to climate change.
31 August 2018
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The purpose of this briefing note is to review opportunities for using complexity aware approaches to Theory of Change (ToC) to inform...
30 August 2018
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The purpose of this briefing note is to add to SDC’s understanding of Theory of Change (ToC), drawing on the literature and practice...
12 June 2018
Published by: IDS
This primer is designed to help programmes that aim to build participation into economic decision-making to better understand what ‘participation’ means.
27 November 2017
Published by: IDS
A significant portion of the world’s remaining biodiversity and agrobiodiversity is in the hands of local and indigenous communities who tend to be politically marginalised and thus excluded from formal environmental governance schemes.
16 October 2017
Published by: IDS
Climate variability and change are affecting millions of poor people in Kenya, particularly in arid and semi-arid lands. Significant investments are being made in developing Climate Information Services (CIS) which are tailored to the needs of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists and aim to help them adapt to the impact of climate change in these regions.
31 July 2017
Published by: Taylor and Francis
There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s....
25 January 2017
It is increasingly recognised that co-construction of knowledge which brings together researcher-derived understanding, with local,...