Implementing Development Evaluations under Severe Resource Constraints
Published by: IDS
Most agency evaluations are very short both on resources and in duration, with no proper opportunity to assess impact in a valid manner.
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Published by: IDS
Most agency evaluations are very short both on resources and in duration, with no proper opportunity to assess impact in a valid manner.
Published by: IDS
The first article in this virtual IDS Bulletin is by Michael Lipton and dates from 1982. In that year the WHO stunting rate for children of preschool age in sub-Saharan Africa was 39 per cent. In 2012 the rate is still 39 per cent.
Published by: Earthscan
Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods, and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing countries are ill equipped to cope with seasonal variations which can lead to drought or flood and consequences for agriculture, employment, food supply and the spread of disease.
Published by: IDS
This seminal IDS Bulletin provide systematic evidence to lay open the widely shared secret among development practitioners that the cupboard of agricultural monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is bare.
Published by: IDS
Seasonality can be extremely damaging to the lives and livelihoods of rural people, but this is rarely recognised and factored into the...
Published by: Blackwell Publishing
The overall objective of this article is to discuss current theoretical debates in the evaluation literature to assess their relevance...
Published by: IDS
The SCN reached its 30th birthday in April 1977. It was established as a coordinating committee for UN agencies working in the area of international nutrition, building on earlier bodies: the Protein Advisory Group and inter agency sub-committees in the League of Nations.
Published by: IDS
The author presents a history of the UN’s Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN), which has been written as a contribution to the continuing debate on the international nutrition development landscape.
Supporting a global network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encouraging social protection systems and instruments that are comprehensive, long-term, sustainable and pro-poor.
Published by: Unwin Hyman
We have, as economists, felt compelled to invade several areas of natural science that were quite unfamiliar to us. In some parts of this book, we are reporting our learning processes.