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   Public works scheme labourer

   Labourer working in the Monga public works scheme
   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes
   Source: ODI
   

   Rethinking public works and social protection for the 21st century

   Event - Public event - 6 March 2013 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+00)

   The evolving role of Public Works is the theme of a joint ODI/World Bank lunchtime event to launch two books analysing the global application of these popular instruments and their role in addressing the challenges represented by the changing labour market structures of low and middle income countries in the 21st century.

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2. Ensuring the sustainability of governance programmes and their impact over time

   Event - Public event - 28 February 2013 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+00)

   Development actors have long raised concerns that the impact of demand-side governance projects cannot be sustained. Drawing from WaterAid’s experiences in India and Uganda this event will explore what kinds of approaches different Governance and Transparency Fund projects have sought to develop and implement in order both to ensure the sustainability of their interventions, and to help partner organisations become self-sustaining over the long term? What efforts have been most effective and why, and what are the challenges that still lie ahead?
   

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   Worker in factory, India

   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Ray Witlin
   Source: World Bank
   

   Call launch: DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme

   Event - Public event - 28 February 2013 12:00 - 15:00 (GMT+00)

   A special lunchtime seminar to launch the Second Call for research for a new programme on economic growth in low income countries

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   From rigorous methods to rigorous processes – directions for travel after the Randomised Control Trial debate

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 February 2013

   'Rigorous impact evaluation is not just about methodology - or indeed about only one method - but should cover each and all the stages of evaluation.'

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   An introduction to digital research communications

   Opinion - Films and videos - 21 February 2013

   In this presentation, ODI's Digital Manager Nick Scott introduces digital research communications. He focuses on the challenges facing researchers trying to communicate their work in the face of digital disruption, and the opportunities digital tools offer for maximising research messages at low cost.

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   Feasibility of social protection schemes in developing countries

   Publication - Briefing papers - 12 February 2013

   Francesca Bastagli

   This Briefing aims to provide the foundations for the European Parliament’s debate on social protection in developing countries and what can be done to promote it.

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   Information overload: how to navigate the maze of monitoring and evaluation methods and approaches

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 January 2013

   'In the development sector there is increased focus on effectiveness and accountability... [so the challenge is] more and more people have to understand the technicalities of the evaluation field without the formal training or experience.'

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   Technical assistance: how to get value for money

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 January 2013

   'Until now much of the debate and action on TA has focused on the 'input' aspect of value for money... However, little has been said or done on the 'output' side: ensuring that TA can deliver the maximum possible developmental impact.'

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   Research uptake and impact: are we in danger of overstating ourselves?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 January 2013

   'Is the pressure to demonstrate concrete impacts on public policy encouraging researchers to overstate their claims about what we are likely to achieve?'

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    Off the balance sheet: the impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 21 January 2013

    Maria Stavropoulou and Nicola Jones

    This report examines the continuing and deepening impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women worldwide. The research explores how long standing economic trends, entrenched gender inequality and austerity budgets have all left girls and their families bearing the brunt of fewer resources and reduced access to services.

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