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Author : Robert McLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429886381

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Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For organisations and individuals working to change the world for the better, scaling impact is a common goal and a well-founded aim. The world is changing rapidly, and seemingly intractable problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality press us to do better for each other and our environment as a global community. Challenges like these appear to demand a significant scale of action, and here the authors argue that a more creative and critical approach to scaling is both possible and essential. To encourage uptake and co-development, the authors present actionable principles that can help organisations and innovators design, manage, and evaluate scaling strategies. Scaling Impact is essential reading for development and innovation practitioners and professionals, but also for researchers, students, evaluators, and policymakers with a desire to spark meaningful change.

Author : Bruce Muirhead
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1554583012

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Author : Julian F. Gonsalves
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1552501817

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Intended for aspiring and new practitioners of Participatory Research and Development (PR&D) as well as field-based researchers in developing countries. Highlights that agricultural research and development has become a joint approach to deal with diverse biophysical environments, multiple livelihood goals, rapid changes in local and global economies, and an expanded range for stakeholders over agriculture and natural resources.

Author : Kate Grantham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000340341

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This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.

Author : Sarah Earl
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Outcome Mapping: Building learning and reflection into development programs

Author : Fred Carden
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8178299305

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Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.

Author : Jorge Nef
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0889368791

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Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)

Author : Pay Drechsel
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844077969

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First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Laurent Elder
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0857281240

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Over the past two decades, projects supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have critically examined the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve learning, empower the disenfranchised, generate income opportunities for the poor, and facilitate access to healthcare in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Considering that most development institutions and governments are currently attempting to integrate ICTs into their practices, it is an opportune time to reflect on the research findings that have emerged from IDRC’s work and research in this area. “Connecting ICTs to Development” discusses programmatic investments made by IDRC in a wide variety of areas related to ICTs, including infrastructure, access, regulations, health, governance, education, livelihoods, social inclusion, technical innovation, intellectual property rights and evaluation. Each chapter in this book analyzes the ways in which research findings from IDRC-supported projects have contributed to an evolution of thinking, and discusses successes and challenges in using ICTs as tools to address development issues. The volume also presents key lessons learned from ICT4D programming and recommendations for future work.

Author : Jennifer Erin Salahub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351254626

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Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious 5-year, 15-project research programme supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the UK’s Department for International Development, the book explores what works, and what doesn't, to prevent and reduce violence in urban centres. Cities in developing countries are often seen as key drivers of economic growth, but they are often also the sites of extreme violence, poverty, and inequality. The research in this book was developed and conducted by researchers from the Global South, who work and live in the countries studied; it challenges many of the assumptions from the Global North about how poverty, violence, and inequalities interact in urban spaces. In so doing, the book demonstrates that accepted understandings of the causes of and solutions to urban violence developed in the Global North should not be imported into the Global South without careful consideration of local dynamics and contexts. Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South concludes by considering the broader implications for policy and practice, offering recommendations for improving interventions to make cities safer and more inclusive. The fresh perspectives and insights offered by this book will be useful to scholars and students of development and urban violence, as well as to practitioners and policymakers working on urban violence reduction programmes.