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Issues in research dissemination
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Frank OdhiamboThe United Kingdom Department for International Development
(DFID), runs a Knowledge and Research (KaR)
programme in which it is recognised that knowledge generation
and dissemination are key to the achievement of the
Millennium Development Goals; a principle which is stated
in several DFID documents including Target Strategy Papers
(DFID, 2000). The DFID KaR programme is based in
London and commissions research into development problems
which cut across geographical boundaries. The DFID
KaR is divided into four programmes: research into rural
livelihoods; health and population; social development;
and infrastructure and urban development. Each programme
commissions its research separately through a
number of ways including annual calls for proposals and
some individually commissioned researches. Two of these
programmes, Health and Population and Rural Livelihoods
sub-contract their research management to various
organisations. As a result, they both have a number of small
sectoral research programmes.
DFID commissioned the Water, Engineering and Development
Centre (WEDC) of Loughborough University, and
Information Training and Development (ITAD) in September
2001, to carry out an evaluation of the dissemination
of outputs of its KaR programme. The aim of this paper is
to highlight the main issues that arose out of this evaluation
and discuss how these impact on research dissemination.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
ODHIAMBO, F., 2002. Issues in research dissemination. IN: Reed, B. (ed). Sustainable environmental sanitation and water services: Proceedings of the 28th WEDC International Conference, Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 18-22 November 2002, 4p.p.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
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WEDC_ID:12535Language
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