Doing Development Research Differently - OX4RD by Willemijn de Bruin https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD Welcome to the OX4RD online 'doing development research differently' debate. This platform has been created by the Oxford Forum on Research for Development (OX4RD) to share some information and stimulate debate about how development research and knowledge exchange can build capacity and contribute to positive change in the global South. During May 2020, this is the place to find out what organisations in and around Oxford are doing, discuss key issues and identify challenges to be explored in subsequent meetings - the first of which will be a webinar in June. We encourage you to browse, like or dislike or comment on existing posts and topics, or start a new topic. You can post videos, voice notes, links to websites or publications. It is pretty easy, but if you would like help, click the three dots in the top right of your window– and don’t forget to post your comments by the end of May to join the debate! Happy posting! en-us 2020-03-27 16:24:37 UTC 2024-11-18 21:10:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png INASP INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478780715 INASP works to ensure that research and knowledge are at the heart of development. We support individuals and institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America to produce, share and use research and knowledge, which can transform lives. We collaborate with national and international partners to build equitable knowledge ecosystems to inform development policy and practice. ]]> 2020-03-27 16:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478780715 INTRAC INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478781504 INTRAC is a values-driven, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to strengthening the effectiveness of civil society around the world to challenge poverty and inequality. We provide consultancy and research support on trends, policies and practices affecting civil society. We promote collaborative and action-oriented research, working with academics and practitioners to design and deliver research that can contribute to change. ]]> 2020-03-27 16:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478781504 Rachel Hayman (INTRAC) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478850849 2020-03-27 17:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478850849 Willemijn de Bruin (INTRAC) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478852156 2020-03-27 17:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478852156 Joanna Wild (INASP) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478854958 2020-03-27 17:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/478854958 SciDev.Net INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491332923 SciDev.Net journalists in over 80 developing countries write about science that impacts on their own communities, seeking comment from locally based researchers. Our articles are frequently syndicated by national media and in 2019 we reached over 200 million people. We build networks between scientists and the media through training and networking events. ]]> 2020-04-03 15:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491332923 Mokoro INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491334305 Mokoro is a not-for-profit international development consultancy providing technical, research and evaluation expertise in sustainable economic and social development for bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-governmental organisations. We work across a wide range of sectors including education, nutrition, child protection, and climate change. ]]> 2020-04-03 15:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491334305 Evidence Aid INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491335223 Evidence Aid champions evidence-based decision-making in disasters and emergencies. We collate and summarise the best-available evidence from research and make this available to decision-makers working to prevent loss of lives and livelihoods in disaster-affected settings around the world. Our thematic areas cover topics such as prevention and treatment of malnutrition, control of infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika and COVID-19, treatment of PTSD, etc. We aim to provide a bridge between practitioners and researchers, ensuring the relevance of research to practice, and the responsiveness of practice to research.

]]> 2020-04-03 15:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491335223 University of Oxford INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491337775 Oxford University has decades of experience and expertise in conducting research in lower- and middle-income countries across all our divisions. The European and International Team provides support on a range of issues from compliance with funder requirements to the ethics of research in LMICs. Internal funds allow researchers to conduct innovate research for development with partners from academic institutions, governments, NGOs and civil society. ]]> 2020-04-03 15:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491337775 John Young (INASP) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491375204 2020-04-03 15:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491375204 James Watkins (University of Oxford) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491381444 2020-04-03 15:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491381444 Liam Bluer (Mokoro) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491384216 2020-04-03 15:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491384216 Ben Deighton (SciDev.Net) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491388466 2020-04-03 15:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491388466 Ben Taylor (Evidence Aid) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491390839 2020-04-03 15:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491390839 Verity Warne (INASP) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491394188 2020-04-03 15:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491394188 Jonathan Harle (INASP) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491396338 2020-04-03 15:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491396338 Eleanor Bayley (University of Oxford) INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491398357 2020-04-03 15:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/491398357 INASP: Equitable Knowledge Ecosystems. https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505840422 We need to bring the latest evidence to bear on the most pressing and intractable problems if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. But, important knowledge and important voices are missing. Our new strategy focuses on what we can do to promote what we call equitable knowledge ecosystems, where diverse voices are recognized and those who commission, produce, communicate and use research and knowledge have the capacity to work effectively together.  ]]> 2020-04-14 08:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505840422 Doing rigorous development research which also builds capacity and contributes to positive change in the south is not easy, but is essential for sustainable development. We outline some of the key challenges we have observed below. What are yours? INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505845807 2020-04-14 08:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505845807 INASP: Going digital https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505862639 The COVID crisis is likely to have a long term impact on travel between the north and south and it is likely that collaboration will require greater use of online approaches. INASP has been developing online alternatives to previously face-to-face teaching, collaborating and information exchange for over 20 years. Here's a roundup of our experience. ]]> 2020-04-14 08:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505862639 INTRAC: Practitioner-academic collaboration in research to tackle global development challenges INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505877492 Collaboration between academics and NGOs on research projects provides opportunities to advance policy and programming agendas to tackle global development challenges.]]> 2020-04-14 08:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/505877492 SciDev.Net: COVID and SDG 5 Gender equality bendeighton https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513056696 Women are on the coronavirus frontlines as healthcare workers and primary caregivers, but policy responses often fail to consider how gender and epidemics interact. What impact will this have on the push for gener equality (SDG 5), and what does it mean for development research?

SciDev.Net will examine this issue in an online debate scheduled for Wednesday Apri 22, join live or listen back via this link.]]> 2020-04-17 14:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513056696 SciDev.Net: COVID to end north/south paradigm bendeighton https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513074524 China and South Korea used to be aid recipients until not so long ago. Now they are helping the World Health Organization, Italy, and other European countries to cope with the crisis, Jean Van Wetter, the head of Enabel in Belgium, told Devex.

In the same article, Viwanou Gnassounou is assistant secretary-general for sustainable economic development and trade at the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, said COVID would help push countries towards self-determination. 

He said the outbreak will add to the factors which are bringing developing countries closer and closer to the self-determination of their development track and the choice of the most suitable policies and partners to accompany them. It will not be a drastic, but rather an evolving, change, he said.

The full article is here:]]> 2020-04-17 15:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513074524 INTRAC: How timely organisational support could help civil society in the South survive COVID-19 INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513156566 Southern Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are vital in providing services to communities and advocating for change with influential decision makers. As a primary means to reach local people, it is essential that CSOs are not overlooked in the understandable rush to address pressing health and economic issues closer to home. 

Many are facing existential threats right now. If they do not adjust and receive the support necessary to maintain themselves as organisations, they could well collapse. What can be done to address this? Rod MacLeod (an organisational development consultant at INTRAC) shared his initial agenda for action:

1.      Guaranteeing the necessary financial support
2.      Help leaders of CSOs to make the right decisions
3.      Support creative programming that is safe but effective

The link below will take you to his full blog:
]]> 2020-04-17 15:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/513156566 INTRAC: Rethinking Research Collaborative Proposals INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/517389032 1) Take a principled approach to development research.
Eight principles for fair and inclusive partnerships:
  • Put poverty first
  • Critically engage with context(s)
  • Redress evidence hierarchies
  • Adapt and respond
  • Respect diversity of knowledge and skills
  • Commit to transparency
  • Invest in relationships
  • Keep learning

2) Invest in capacity development for fair and equitable research
Self-learning modules hosted by Christian Aid's Centre for Excellence in Research, Evidence and Learning

Find out more:
You can read the full report here, or look up the Rethinking Research Collaborative.
]]> 2020-04-20 12:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/517389032 INTRAC: Key challenges for development research…. and overcoming them INTRAC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/528634774 2020-04-24 15:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/528634774 INASP: Important voices are missing from the debate. INASP_jyoung https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/530126200 Important knowledge and important voices are missing from development research in many countries. Funding tends to go to a few elite organisations, women find it difficult to pursue research careers, and research-based knowledge is favoured over experiential and indigenous knowledge.]]> 2020-04-25 15:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/530126200 INASP: Doing capacity development well. INASP_jyoung https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/530143147 In this Newton Fund blog post, Jon Harle - INASP's Director of Programmes - outlines 6 principles for effective capacity development.]]> 2020-04-25 15:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/530143147 Verity Warne (INASP) https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/540504714 2020-04-29 22:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/540504714 INASP: Building sustainable communities of practice. INASP_jyoung https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/542161987 CoPs are a powerful way of bringing people with shared interests, vision and needs together, but are not always successful and rarely sustainable. In this AuthorAID blog Joanna Wild - INASP's Head of Technology-enhanced Learning -  discusses why vibrant, sustainable communities of practice are not straightforward – and what we can do about it.]]> 2020-04-30 14:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/542161987 University of Oxford: Policy Engagement team https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/548564807 In 2019, the University of Oxford established a public policy engagement support function, to provide guidance and resources for university researchers to engage effectively with policy actors. The ultimate goal is to foster and support evidence-informed policymaking. 

Given the breadth of international research at the university, the Policy Engagement team is keen to better understand how evidence uptake works in a number of different country contexts. This informs how researchers can engage with public policy internationally in an effective and responsible way. ]]> 2020-05-04 08:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/548564807 Anna Mackin (Ipsos MORI) annamackin https://padlet.com/intrac/OX4RD/wish/554410148 I am part of the International Social Research team at Ipsos MORI. I specialise random probability sampling for multi-country surveys as well as quasi-experimental impact evaluation design for international development clients. 

Although Ipsos MORI is based in London, I am based in central Oxford, where I work remotely for most of the week.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaemackin/
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