Throughout the world, the pace of environmental, social and technological change is accelerating, and this in turn has major implications for the poor and their development prospects. Traditional transfer-of-technology approaches to agricultural research can no longer keep pace with the complex, ...
Watts, J.
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Mackay, R.
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Horton, D.
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Hall, A.
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Douthwaite, Boru
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Chambers, Robert
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Acosta, A.S.
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[Institutional Learning and Change: an introduction]
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Institutional Learning and Change: an introduction
The ILAC Initiative consists of an evolving community of individuals committed to increasing the contributions of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction around the world. ILAC promotes research, methodology development and capacity development to increase understanding of agricult...
Watts, J.
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Horton, D.
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[Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation]
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Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation
This working paper reports on an evaluation designed to assess the usefulness of the skills gained during the training course, if the skills learned have been applied and, if so, how the new facilitation tools and techniques have changed meeting processes. The evaluation also identified obstacles...
Sette, Cristina
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Watts, J.
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[Group facilitation skills for participatory decision-making: report of a follow-up outcome evaluation]
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Group facilitation skills for participatory decision-making: report of a follow-up outcome evaluation
This paper presents six key issues from the Rethinking Impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change Workshop (RIW) held in Cali, Colombia, March 28, 2008. The workshop discussed how agricultural and natural-resources research can be more effective in generating solutions for povert...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lilja, N.
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Watts, J.
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[Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change]
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Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lilja, N.
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Watts, J.
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[Rethinking Impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change. Summary]
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Rethinking Impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change. Summary