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Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods and Practice
Key Guidance
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), xix, 401 pp.
"This book is written to provide detailed, rigorous guidance on how to conduct impact evaluations of government and nongovernment programs and projects. It covers all the leading quantitative impact evaluation methods, explaining the assumptions re
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Improving Assessment and Evaluation Strategies on Online Learning: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 29 July 2021
Leiden: Routledge;CRC Press (2022), xiii, 141 pp.
"ICLI is an annual International Conference on Learning Innovation (ICLI) hosted byUniversitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Indonesian Con
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Mobile Learning in Low-Resource Countries
International Book Bank (2019), 17 pp.
Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.
"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This
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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.
"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable
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A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xvi, 299 pp.
"A Guide to Assessing Needs offers a much broader perspective than many texts on project management or evaluation. It presents needs assessment within a results framework that applies to international development projects equally as well as to a va
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo
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Publishing in Africa: Where Are We Now? Part Two: Accomplishments and Failures
Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community, volume 20, issue 1-4 (2009), pp. 79-90
"Reviews the activities and achievements of a number of African book trade and book promotional organizations, thereafter examines the progress that has been achieved in some areas affecting the
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Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation
Top Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), 402 pp.
"According to the introduction, this 'guide is intended as a tool for media reform particularly in developing and transitional democracies. At the same time, it should be useful anywhere people aspire to a deeper democracy. Building democracy is a process, often long-term, and promoting free, plural
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APNET-ADEA Study Project on Intra-African Book Trade
Accra; London: African Publishers Network (APNET);Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) (2007), 42 pp.
"Following on an earlier study (Makotsi, 2000) on the inter-African book trade that was commissioned by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa: Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (ADEA) in association with the African
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NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations
London: Earthscan (2006), xii, 257 pp.
"This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certificat
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Book Donations for Development
Key Guidance
Gwyneth Evans (ed.)
Paris; Ottawa: UNESCO;CODE Canada (2005), 72 pp.
"As a component of international cultural cooperation, the donation of second-hand books is a current practice that is both common and controversial. The practice arose from the realization that bibliographic and documentary resources were unevenly
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Toward Literate Societies: Publishing in Local Languages
In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 24-33
"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part
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Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Top Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (1998), ix, 229 pp.
"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar
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Publishing in Africa: One Man's Perspective
Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers;Bellagio Publishing Network (1996), 182 pp.
"A collection of articles by one of Africa's most prolific commentators on the African publishing scene, bringing together his writings on diverse topics, such as autonomous publishing, book marketing and distribution, author-publisher relations, r
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Donated Book Programs: A Dialogue of Partners Handbook
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Center for the Book (1993), 104 pp.
"A handbook for all those involved in donated book programmes. Aims to eliminate the practice of book “dumping”, thus ensuring that all donated boo
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International Experiences in Third World Publishing Development with Particular Reference to World Bank Intervention
In: Publishing and Development in the Third World
Philip G. Altbach (ed.)
London: Hans Zell Publishers (1992), pp. 307-324
"Examines the involvement of the World Bank and other aid agencies in funding textbook publishing in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The author notes that the fundamental role of books in education was not, however, widely recognize
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Conference on Textbook Provision and Library Development in Africa
Manchester: British Council (1992), 27 pp.
"The proceedings of a British Council hosted conference held in Manchester in October 1991, which was the first international conference to examine all the issues raised by the African book sector
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Publishing and Development in the Third World
Top Insights
London et al.: Hans Zell Publishers (1992), x, 441 pp.
"This benchmark volume stems from the papers commissioned for a major international seminar on Publishing in the Third World, held at Bellagio, Italy, in February 1991. It presents the first full scale discussion of publishing in Asia and Africa, a
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