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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Strategy Development: Outcome Mapping

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    As development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environments, the focus of Outcome Mapping is on people. The originality of the methodology is its shift away from assessing the development impact of a programme (defined as changes in state: for example, policy relevance, poverty alleviation, or reduced conflict) and toward changes in the behaviours, relationships, actions or activities of the people, groups and organisations with which a development programme works directly.

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  3. Management Techniques: Force Field Analysis

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    Force Field Analysis was developed by Kurt Lewin (1951) and is widely used to inform decision making, particularly in planning and implementing change management programmes in organisations.

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  4. Management Techniques: Structured Innovation

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    Structured Innovation is a term to describe the combination of two simple and common approaches to thinking about the elements of a particular problem or issue, which together form the basis for systematically innovating and generating new ideas. These two simple techniques are attribute listing and morphological analysis.

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  5. Management Techniques: Reframing Matrix

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    A Reframing Matrix is a simple technique that helps you to look at organisational problems from a number of different viewpoints, and expands the range of creative solutions that you can generate.

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  6. Strategy Development: The Five Competencies Framework

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    The Five Competencies Framework has been promoted widely and is now being used by many different teams or groups, to work out how well they are performing against organisationally established criteria for knowledge and learning, and to identify goals and priorities for improvement.

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  7. Planning Tools: Stakeholder Analysis

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    It is often beneficial for research projects to identify and analyse the needs and concerns of different stakeholders, particularly when these projects aim to influence policy.

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  8. Planning tools: Problem Tree Analysis

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    Problem tree analysis is central to many forms of project planning and is well developed among development agencies. Problem tree analysis (also called Situational analysis or just Problem analysis) helps to find solutions by mapping out the anatomy of cause and effect around an issue in a similar way to a Mind map, but with more structure.

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  9. Planning Tools: National Systems of Innovation (NSI)

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009

    National Systems of Innovation (NSI) refers to all those institutions and institutional relationships that make it possible to produce and use innovation: educational policy; higher education investment; research institutes; research infrastructure; technological infrastructure; technological capacity; government policy; promotion of strategic industries; etc.

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  10. Packaging Tools: Provide a solution

    Publication - Toolkits - 13 January 2009
    When communicating research it is crucial to make clear what the problem is, what the possible solutions are and which one you would recommend.
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