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Knowledge sharing and management in CARE's village savings and loans programs
No full textCARE's Savings-Led Microfinance methodology (also widely known within CARE as the Village Savings and Loans - VS&L - methodology) enables the poor to save and access their savings in order to increase the ability to partake in economic opportunities that present themselves as viable ways to better their lives as well as their families. Upon examination of a variety of VS&L programming within CARE, no one specific methodology is utilized but rather a multitude of appropriate practices based on a combination of country specific situations, people's varying needs and sector wide best practices. Innovations in the methodology have evolved in some of the more long standing programs and even can be seen in the nascent methodologies. Based on this evolving nature of program design, it is vital that CARE maintains knowledge on current and past programming methodologies and is able to disseminate pertinent information to internal practitioners as well as global practitioners wishing to implement similar programs. The lack of infrastructure and culture to support this knowledge sharing disables the vital link needed to carry out good economic development program design and implementation. Consequently, the lack of knowledge of best practices and current innovations lead ideas and interventions to be constantly reinvented. The time and energy spent in reinventing the same projects is time consuming and unnecessary. If economic development practitioners were able to access a library or database or just have thematic/sector ready information and or guidelines readily available and accessible, this waste of time and energy could be eliminated and VS&L methodologies that target the poor, marginalized and vulnerable could be designed. Through this pilot project entitled Knowledge Sharing and Management in VS&L Programs, CARE intends to enhance the cross-country learning and availability of VS&L programmatic knowledge through the creation of an information platform and database for its Southern African (Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa\ Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe) Village Savings and Loans practitioners as well as practitioners external to the organization and researchers. (Author abstract)Chidiac, S. (2007). Knowledge sharing and management in CARE's village savings and loans programs. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
CIFSRF final technical report : achieving impact at scale through ICT-enabled extension services in Ghana (CIFSRF Phase 2)
No full textThis work was carried out with the aid of a grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)The role of the private sector in the provision of ICT- enabled agricultural advisory services is gaining prominence due to challenges limiting effective delivery of pubic agricultural extension services. The project assessed and refined both radio and mobile agent models leading to development of sustainable operational and financial models. Grameen Foundation, Farm Radio International, Digital Green and other partners implemented a successful pilot project that harnessed interactive digital platforms (radio, mobile and video) to promote the provision of actionable information and advisory services to farmers. One of the important drivers of success for the project was collaboration between different stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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