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An outcome evaluation of water, sanitation and hygiene (SHINE)(WASH) project being implemented by a ZVITAMBO in Shurugwi District.
No full textThe outcome evaluation exercise was done on a program called SHINE implemented by ZVITAMBO an organization in Shurugwi District. The evaluation was done because the stakeholders wanted to assess the achievements and changes brought by the project. The evaluation actually focused on determining the extent to which the SHINE WASH project achieved the stated goal of the project. Specifically the evaluation assessed:
1. The improvements in access to and use of safe and sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services in Shurugwi rural household level, which is responsive to the livelihood needs of the rural Shurugwi people (men, women and children).
2. The extent to which nutrition, sanitation and hygiene practices among targeted rural Shurugwi communities has been improved.
3. The extent to which the skills and practices among the targeted population women, men and children were enhanced by the SHINE WASH project to manage nutrition, water supply, sanitation and hygiene services.
The evaluation study was done in 3 out of the 10 projects wards which were randomly selected. The study methods included household surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews with key informant interviewees, field observations and documentary reviews of quantitative and qualitative methodology and presented in graphs, pie charts, tables and narratives. Participatory process was employed where stakeholders were put at the center to come up with project objectives and indicators, program theories and logic models, data collection and analysis.
1. The SHINE WASH project greatly improved access to and use of safe, clean and sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services, 50 new boreholes were drilled which benefited 20 000 beneficiaries, 200 water points were rehabilitated which benefited 23 000 community members, 1 dam was constructed which served 23000 rural Shurugwians .Beneficiaries embarked on animal husbandry, gardening and brick molding as a result of SHINE project. Documentary review showed that there was great
reduction of water borne diseases such as cholera and bilharzias as a result of the SHINE WASH project. 2. The study findings indicate that the SHINE WASH project have improved the sanitation and hygiene practices of the project beneficiaries (men, women and children). For 90% of rural people were effectively sensitized against the dangers of open defecation, 5000 households receiving sanitation facilities,3000 households started using pit latrines,100 sanitation groups were formed, hand washing was much improved, diarrhoea cases reduced from 24 000 in 2011 to 5 000 cases in 2015 as a result of SHINE WASH project impact. 3. The SHINE WASH project positively enhanced the capacity, improved skills and knowledge of beneficiaries were enhanced with skills and could now repair and maintain their water points even after the SHINE project withdraw its support.
Recommendations made includes:-
1. The project should be replicated to the whole province of Midlands province as it was noted that the project has brought positive changes of improving health in Shurugwi rural community. 2. The SHINE project should address gender disparities such as cultural issues that negatively affect women participation in more rewarding work such as latrine building and water point supply maintenance. 3. The project should create more health awareness and train more community leaders for hygiene and hygiene promotio
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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