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Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role

Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role

brookings.edu –

"While the theme of the third meeting of the High-Level Panel on Post-2015 in Bali was on global partnerships, the meeting’s communiqué set up the handover from the high-level panel to the intergovernmental Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (OWG). The communiqué calls for “a single and coherent post-2015 development agenda that integrates economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability”, and with good reason since the two development more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Good Things Grown in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

Good Things Grown in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

brookings.edu –

"In recent years agriculture has experienced a renaissance of attention among economists and policymakers, especially those focused on sub-Saharan Africa. This heightened attention has been driven partly by research insights, partly by policy initiatives, and partly by a recognition that governments and major international development institutions had been neglecting the issue for many years. It has also been motivated by emerging trends in particular countries like Malawi, which implemented an more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

Mastering the SME banking risk management frontier by Mandeep Vohra, Head of SME Banking Risk – Africa, Middle East and Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank

Mastering the SME banking risk management frontier by Mandeep Vohra, Head of SME Banking Risk – Africa, Middle East and Pakistan at Standard Chartered Bank

Mandeep Vohra from Standard Chartered Bank outlines the various risk management approaches for banking SMEs and the need to have a distinct team of SME Risk specialist.This presentation was given during a conference jointly organized by The Arab Monetary Fund and IFC on “Building a High Performance Small Medium Enterprise Business in the Arab World” on 7-8 May 2013 in Dubai, UAE.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 20, 2013

Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit

Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit

betterevaluation.org –

This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations to demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to their listeners, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into the organisation and its practices. It is a key outcome of the Assessing Communication for Social Change (AC4SC) project, which was a successful collaboration between Equal Access Nepal, Equal Access International, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Adelaide more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Mobile phones unleash farmers in Uganda

Mobile phones unleash farmers in Uganda

csmonitor.com –

A powerful new mobile platform combining agriculture information and financial services specifically designed for smallholder farmers is going live in Uganda, helping farmers plow even more value from each acre. Based on AgriLife, a cloud-based platform, the platform will be accessible via mobile phone and provide two key, interconnected services: data collection and analysis about farmers’ production capability and history. It will also be an integration point for financial institutions, more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Overcoming Constraints to SME Development in MENA Countries and Enhancing Access to Finance

Overcoming Constraints to SME Development in MENA Countries and Enhancing Access to Finance

The role of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector cannot be over emphasized in terms of its contribution to GDP and employment generation, particularly in emerging economies. Studies indicate that formal SMEs contribute up to 45 percent of employment and up to 33 percent of GDP in developing economies (IFC: Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services in the Developing World 2010). These numbers are significantly higher when taking into account the estimated contributions of SMEs more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 20, 2013

iHub Research’s Uchaguzi Monitoring & Evaluation Brief

iHub Research’s Uchaguzi Monitoring & Evaluation Brief

research.ihub.co.ke –

During Kenya’s 2013 General Election, Uchaguzi Kenya 2013, a joint initiative between SODNET, Ushahidi, CRECO, and Hivos (with support from CIDA), was used to help increase transparency and accountability through active citizen participation in the electoral cycle. Uchaguzi was coordinated through an ICT platform, which enabled Kenyans to keep an eye on the vote and provided avenues through which they could report, with any technology available to them, any incidences significant to the more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

Citizen Election reporting in Kenya was a breakthrough in online-offline collaboration

Citizen Election reporting in Kenya was a breakthrough in online-offline collaboration

ericahagen.com –

The Kenyan elections were more than a month ago, but a debate continues in the crisis mapping community about whether the various technologies deployed to track and respond to outbreaks of violence were a confused and possibly dangerous mess, or a successful contribution to what was ultimately a peaceful (if disputed) process. DO WE REALLY NEED ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS??? Do we really need 3 maps, 7 phone numbers, and several web-forms? Is that really such a crazy bad idea to have one coordinated more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

The Umpteenth Blog on using SMS Feedback in Projects…Now with Support!

The Umpteenth Blog on using SMS Feedback in Projects…Now with Support!

blogs.worldbank.org –

With shiny apps hogging the mobile spotlight these days, one could be forgiven for forgetting about SMS (“Short Message Service” or text messaging). When equipping a project to receive and respond to complaints, it’s important to remember that all modes of communication contain tradeoffs that exclude different types of people depending on the type of message they have. Face to face prevents true anonymity. Mail is slow. Phone calls can become expensive. And just to more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

IFC SME Banking Conference 2013: Building a high performance SME business in the MENA region

IFC SME Banking Conference 2013: Building a high performance SME business in the MENA region

The topic of this 2013 conference, “Building a high performing SME business”, is of critical importance for the MENA region. SMEs need access to banking services to create jobs and support economic growth, but only 20 percent of them have access to credit, and the SME funding gap in the region is estimated at $160 billion. Banks and policy makers in the region are aware of these opportunities and are developing new strategies to support SMEs. The AMF and the IFC are working together to support more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 20, 2013

Market for feature phone apps is low-tech goldmine

Market for feature phone apps is low-tech goldmine

In the West, you might deploy a bus tracking app on your smartphone to inform you when that errant bus will arrive. But in India the mobile infrastructure is less developed. Even if it were available, many people don't have smartphones to take advantage of such apps. Feature phones, which perhaps boast basic forms of GPS, camera, MP3 player and some kind of internet access, as well as the ability to run simple apps, have become increasingly popular in the developing world. They occupy the more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

In South Africa, Organizers Combine Old and New Media to Take on Corruption

In South Africa, Organizers Combine Old and New Media to Take on Corruption

techpresident.com –

According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2012, South Africa received a score of 4.4 out of 10, with 10 being the least corrupt and 0 the most. The Corruption Watch team, many of whom are former journalists, has been keen to leverage their contacts in traditional media outlets as well. With limited budgets, this outreach is more challenging for the NGO, yet necessary in order to reach the South African public. The team has worked with local television, radio, and more...

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D C on May 20, 2013

ELLA BRIEF: Community Participation in IFI-Funded Development Projects: Latin America’s Experience

ella.practicalaction.org –

Major development projects involving infrastructure or extractive industries - both in Latin America and other regions - tend to be financed, either partially or totally, by international financial institutions (IFIs). Given that these types of large-scale projects could have adverse effects on local communities’ livelihoods, cultural heritage and environment, IFIs have established mechanisms to guarantee that the projects they fund meet international environmental and social standards. Though more...

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Mark Turner on May 20, 2013

DESIGNING EVALUATIONS:

DESIGNING EVALUATIONS:

This publication supersedes PEMD-10.1.4, Designing Evaluations, May 1, 1991. GAO assists congressional decision makers in their deliberations by furnishing them with analytical information on issues and options. Many diverse methodologies are needed to develop sound and timely answers to the questions the Congress asks. To provide GAO evaluators with basic information about the more commonly used methodologies, GAO’s policy guidance includes documents such as methodology transfer papers and more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

UNDP Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results

UNDP Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results

web.undp.org –

This ‘Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results’ is an updated edition of the 2002 edition of ‘Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluation for Results’1. It seeks to address new directions in planning, monitoring and evaluation in the context of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) corporate strategic plan, the requirements of the UNDP evaluation policy approved by the Executive Board in 2006 and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) ‘Standards for more...

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John Daly on May 20, 2013

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