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Assessing the policy influence of research: a case study of governance research in Viet Nam

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Download to the Backgrund Note at ODI:  As development processes become ever more complex, there is a growing demand for knowledge products that provide the necessary information to implement evidence-based policy change. However, the practice of monitoring the impact of knowledge products, often produced by international donors, is relatively new. This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to […]

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change

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The RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach and project management for policy change Article – ODI Opinions 153, August 2011 Authors: Arnaldo Pellini Ramalingam et al. (2008), describe development plans, strategies and goal setting as ‘attempts to picture how things work in that country and provide an illusion of control’. The reality, however, is that development is not

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Communicating research: A beginner’s guide for researchers at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science

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Communicating research: A beginner\’s guide for researchers at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science Arnaldo Pellini and Ajoy Datta Manual/Toolkit, July 2011 The guide was developed by the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme under the guidance of VASS and input from VASS researchers. This guide is a key output

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Knowledge taxonomies: a literature review

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Knowledge taxonomies: a literature review Arnaldo Pellini and Harry Jones Taxonomies are part of our daily life and this is particularly apparent today. The explosion in the volume of information and knowledge available though information technology and especially through the internet today has made it more urgent than ever to adopt systems, processes, and technology

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Holland’s Total Football and Pixar: what can they tell us about team work?

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Published in ODI\’s internal Blog Holland’s Total Football and Pixar: what can they tell us about team work? So, Holland lost yet another World Cup final at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Their third final, 32 years after the loss against Argentina when Mario Kempes scored two unforgettable goals to defeat Holland 3-1. In South Africa

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Taking Research into Account

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Taking Research into Account by Arnaldo Pellini and John Young (ODI) published by InWent in Development + Cooperation 12/2009. Available at D+C Taking research into account “Is international aid value for money?” This is a question many people around the world ask, especially as the budget deficits of some of the world’s largest donors are growing due to the global financial crisis.

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