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Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

Sarah Cummings posted Information | 23 March 2015

This article , published in February 2105 in the journal Agriculture & Food Security and written by a team of CGIAR authors, considers that productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the world’s rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Innovation spaces: Transforming humanitarian practice in the United Nations

Rahel Dette uploaded a new Document | 19 March 2015

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This Oxford Refugee Centre working paper zooms in on the rise of humanitarian innovation spaces, such as innovation labs and hubs. It recognizes that the complex bureaucratic structure of the UN is often seen as a barrier to efficiency and innovation and thus explains and analyses how UN bodies are...

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Group: innov-aid
Plase help with my Master thesis - 10 minutes survey

Dora Beregszaszi posted Information | 14 March 2015

Hi everyone! My name is Dora and I am a master student of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. I am writing my Master thesis on reward-based crowdfundin g. My research tries to help project owners in the appropriate design of their projects. I am willing to share more details once the...

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Group: crowdfunding-financement participatif
Mind, Society, Behaviour (and Development?)

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 11 March 2015

The mayor of Bogotá takes a shower on television to promote saving water, and water consumption drops; HIV patients in Kenya get text messages to remind them to take their medication and adherence rates rise by 13 percentage points; and a simple rewrite of letters from the UK tax office nets the...

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La Unión Europea y el papel de los gobiernos locales en la futura agenda de desarrollo post-2015

Sergio OLIETE JOSA uploaded a new Document | 1 March 2015

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I hope you will find this paper interesting. It has been published in "Relaciones Internacionales" an academic journal in Spanish. Below, you can find an abstract in English. You can access the full issue of the journal in the following link: http://www.relacionesinternacionales.info/ojs/issue/view...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
New grants for temporary spaces or projects

Suhair Muhye Al Deen posted Information | 7 February 2015

The Young Arab Theatre Fund (YATF) announced their new Grants Programs to enable the realization of short-term contemporary arts spaces or projects that are developed by two or more collaborators in the Arab World. Med Culture 's official website is now online! Discover a wide set of databases,...

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Group: Medculture
Publications and Reporting

Capacity4dev Team created a new WIKI page | 15 December 2014

Background Rural electrification options were analysed showing the optimal cost conditions for a sustainable energy development applying renewable energy sources in Africa. A spatial electricity cost model has been designed to identify the least-cost option in off-grid areas: diesel generators,...

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Group: African Renewable Energy Technology Platform - AFRETEP
Forced Migration Review: Innovation & Refugees

Rahel Dette uploaded a new Document | 2 December 2014

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Special issue of the Forced Migration Review focusing on various aspects of innovation with regards to refugees. Link : http://www.fmreview.org/en/innovation.pdf Contents : 3 From the editors 4 Introduction: refugees and innovation, Alexander Betts 8 Innovation – what, why and how for a UN...

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Group: innov-aid
The two worlds of humanitarian innovation

Rahel Dette uploaded a new Document | 24 November 2014

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Excerpt : A constant challenge for humanitarian actors is how to meaningfully include and adequately consult so-called beneficiary populations. At all stages of humanitarian action, there is a tendency for solutions to be brought ‘from the outside’, with accountability channels directed primarily...

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Group: innov-aid
Innovative Research Design: A Journey into the Information Typhoon

Rahel Dette uploaded a new Document | 24 November 2014

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Abstract : Disasters are often characterized by their sudden onset and complex nature. The need for innovative and trans-disciplinary research that starts from the practice of disaster response is uncontested. Yet, the realities of field research require a rework of research design and processes...

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Group: innov-aid

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