Author :
Publisher : The Business Year
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release :
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The Business Year recently organized a series of panel discussions to discuss the investment opportunities in the sector and the importance of sustainability. This special debriefing includes a transcript of the entire event, as well as a series of other interviews, news, and analysis.
Author : Linda G. Morra-Imas
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821379119
'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a "rigorous" quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The text begins with the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing 'Results-based Measurement and Evaluation' and constructing a 'Theory of Change' are emphasized throughout the text. Next, the authors take the reader down 'the road to results, ' presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a 'Design Matrix' to help map the process. This road includes: determining the overall approach, formulating questions, selecting designs, developing data collection instruments, choosing a sampling strategy, and planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior--including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation. This comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation.
Author : Gyongyi Kovacs
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : 9781609608262
"This book furthers the scholarly understanding of SCM in disaster relief, particularly establishing the central role of logistics in averting and limiting unnecessary hardships"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Thomas George Barton
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782831703893
This handbook illustrates concepts, methods and tools for "primary environmental care", an approach that seeks to empower communities to meet basic needs while protecting the environment. In particular, it focuses on how population size, structure, growth (or decline) and movements relate to the quality of the environment and the quality of life. Emphasis is placed on a community-led process of participatory action research in which local knowledge and skills are fully utilized. A main purpose is to promote the effective, integrated management of environment and population dynamics for the benefit of local people. As a collection of tools for action, it is designed for professionals in conservation and natural resource management, development, population and public health who wish to promote and assist participatory action research in rural communities.
Author : Jean-Marc Coicaud
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Focusing on a range of regional cases, the book evaluates the respective weight of national interest and internationalist (solidarity) considerations. Ultimately, while classical national interest considerations remain to this day a powerful motivation for power projection, the book shows how an enlightened conception of national interest can encompass solidarity concerns, and how such a balancing of the imperatives of both national interest and solidarity is the major challenge facing decision-makers.--Publisher's description.
Author : Francesco Parasiliti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 364255475X
This book reports the state of the art of energy-efficient electrical motor driven system technologies, which can be used now and in the near future to achieve significant and cost-effective energy savings. It includes the recent developments in advanced electrical motor end-use devices (pumps, fans and compressors) by some of the largest manufacturers. Policies and programs to promote the large scale penetration of energy-efficient technologies and the market transformation are featured in the book, describing the experiences carried out in different parts of the world. This extensive coverage includes contributions from relevant institutions in the Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Author : Greg Wilson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2017-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781365984280
"This book is a brief introduction to modern evidence-based teaching practices and how to use them to teach programming to free-range learners. It cover: how people's thinking changes as they go from being novices to competent practitioners and then to being experts ; how to tell if your learners are keeping up with you, and what to do or say when they're not ; how to design and improve lessons efficiently and collaboratively ; how and why live coding (i.e., writing programs step by step in front of learners) is a better way to teach programming than lectures or self-directed practice ; and how insights and techniques borrowed from the performing arts can make you a better teacher."-- Publisher's website.
Author : Sina Odugbemi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821385569
This books analyses the role of public opinion for generating genuine citizen demand for accountability, providing case studies from around the world to illustrate how public opinion forces governments to be accountable.
Author : Catherine Ward
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1919895876
Youth violence: Sources and solutions in South Africa thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk and protective factors that influence the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. Layers of understanding are built by viewing the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including the current situation in which South African youth are growing up, perspectives from developmental psychology, the influences of race, class and gender, and of the media. The book then reviews the evidence for effective interventions in the contexts of young people’s lives – their homes, their schools, their leisure activities, with gangs, in the criminal justice system, in cities and neighbourhoods, and with sexual offenders. In doing so, thoughtful suggestions are made for keeping an evidence-based perspective while (necessarily) adapting interventions for developing world contexts, such as South Africa. Youth violence in South Africa: Sources and solutions is a valuable addition to the library of anyone who has ever wondered about youth violence, or wanted to do something about it.
Author : Leanne Hinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317200853
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
