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Manual de Buenas Prácticas de Responsabilidad Social Comunitaria
San José: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2024), 87 pp.
"El presente manual representa un importante y valioso esfuerzo por poner el foco en el relacionamiento con comunidades. Surge de una investigación de campo que resume acciones de empresas interesadas en conocer a sus grupos de interés externos y, de manera específica, a las comunidades a quienes
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Mapping Out Regional Consultations: A Practical Orientation to Organizing Consultations
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 17 pp.
"Carrying out regional consultations with multiple stakeholders can help establish a shared understanding of major challenges and build consensus about promising paths forward. They are particularly useful in complex environments with many different actors. This guide provides some practical guidanc
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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.
"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo
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How-To Note: Addressing the Principles for Digital Development in Project and Activity Design
Key Guides
USAID (2022), 20 pp.
"The How-to Note is a brief, user-friendly guide that helps program design teams understand and prioritize the Digital Principles most relevant to their work. Through a series of leading questions and worksheets, this digital activity design checklist provides actionable guidance for each Digital Pr
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Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights
Key Guides
Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs; Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn
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Open Science for Peacebuilding Toolkit
Berlin: Global Innovation Gathering (GIG); Vilsquare (2022), 43 pp.
"The aim of this Open Science and Peacebuilding Toolkit is to provide an open, living collection of resources for innovation hubs operating in conflict or post-conflict environments, creating a joint framework for open science and peacebuilding in action. It seeks to enable makerspaces across the wo
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"This note aims to support DT Global staff and partners to: understand DT Global's adaptive management framework; assess if and what level of adaptive management is required for a program; the difference between adaptive management and good program management; and initial steps to apply adaptive man
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Case Study: EthioCheck Lab. Developing Fact-Checking Strategies with Human Centered Design — Insights of an Approach in Ethiopia
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 42 pp.
"DW Akademie initiated a human-centered design (HCD) process as a starting point for a media development project in Ethiopia. The aim was to develop a better understanding and assess the current situation regarding misinformation and disinformation. The process with journalists and media experts fro
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Propulsorio
SembraMedia (2021), 76 pp.
"Aprende a desarrollar productos y medios informativos con foco en la audiencia y su sustentabilidad económica." (https://propulsorio.com)
Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa
Routledge (2021), xxvi, 253 pp.
DPPD Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Development Practitioners to Apply the Data Powered Positive Deviance Method
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2021), 138 pp.
"Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community or organization, there are a few individuals who achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. These individuals are referred to as positive deviants, and adopting t
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Effective consortia: A guide to emerging thinking and practice
Oxford; London: Partnering Initiative (TPI); Bond (2021), 71 pp.
Human-Centred Design in Humanitarian Settings: Methodologies for Inclusivity
Key Guides
London: GSMA (2020), 40 pp.
"To ensure that mobile solutions are designed inclusively in humanitarian contexts, it is important that target users are involved as co-creators of the future they want. A human-centred design approach is one way to ensure that users’ perspectives are fully integrated into programme design. This
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Exit for Sustainability Checklists
Valuing Voices (2020), 7 pp.
"Our Valuing Voices ex-post research of 39 organizations’ evaluations of sustainability shows that most project results decrease (20-90%) as early as two years ex-post in addition to an Asian Development Bank study of post-completion sustainability found that “some early evidence suggests that a
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Using Middle-Level Theory to Improve Programme and Evaluation Design
Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2020), 11 pp.
"Middle-level theory (MLT) has several uses in development planning and evaluation. It helps predict whether a programme can be expected to work in a new setting. It offers insights into what design features are needed for success. IIt provides invaluable information for monitoring to see if the pro
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"This practical guide describes a number of workshops held across Europe to train fellow workers in design thinking techniques and processes. It covers how teams have organised their sessions encompassing the structure, tools chosen, length, workshop delivery and evaluation. Through reflection on th
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Design Thinking: The Handbook
Singapore: WS Professional (2020), 303 pp.
"Design thinking is more than just a new, one-off method of innovation. It is about establishing an innovation-friendly climate in companies and organizations for the long-term. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary team of authors has composed this "recipe book" that can be practically applied to y
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"The relationships between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) actors are critical for improving and sustaining WASH services. Social network analysis (SNA) is a powerful tool for studying social systems that focuses attention on the complex relationships among actors in a system. Specifically, it
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Managing Outcomes: A Practitioner's Manual for Analysis, Planning, Monitoring and Self-Evaluation Based on Outcome Mapping
Cologne: AGIAMONDO (2020), vi, 114 pp.
"Outcome Mapping was developed 20 years ago by the International Development Research Centre and for many in the development sector it has become a staple in planning, monitoring and evaluation toolkits. Countless organisations across the world have applied and adapted Outcome Mapping for their own
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