Capacity building
Showing items 1 to 8 of 8
View Categories
- Areas of expertise
- Capacity building
- Climate change
- Data
- Disasters and emergencies
- Famine prevention and food security
- Gender
- Income diversification
- Inequality
- Lake Victoria fisheries
- Livelihood resilience
- Livelihood Zones
- Livelihoods
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Nutrition and health
- Open source
- Policy and programme design
- Post-conflict
- Poverty research
- Refugees and displacement
- Social protection
- Technology
- Urban
- Vulnerability assessment
- Countries
- Hydromet
- Methods
- Resilience
- The organisation
-
15th May 2018
Imagine all the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro had melted
At the HyCRISTAL AGM in Kampala last month, climate change researchers were talking about 40-year horizons, where we did an exercise in small groups to each imagine the consequences of one of a list of possible scenarios. We were given our scenario and asked to work back to what we would have to do now, […]
-
27th March 2018
Being present and engaged: tools and training for researchers
Dr Lucy Wallace EfD Communications Manager | CSAT Programme Manager Research inevitably means we spend an awful lot of time working in one small area. The mystical ‘bigger picture’ is relatively distant, it’s something we refer to in grant applications, and we often don’t know where to start to attain the coveted ‘research into policy […]
-
5th October 2017
Considering the health sector as an important user of Hydromet information
In September, I was able to attend the AMCOMET, African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology, forum in Addis Ababa. The focus of the forum was Weather, Water, and Climate Services, and the contribution of these ‘hydromet’ services to wider social and economic development is becoming increasingly evident as the reality of climate change hits both urban […]
-
23rd September 2015
Banking on Evidence for Development – a month in the life of a volunteer
It’s August 2013 and I’m about as broke as a ‘banker’ in London can be. I had eagerly taken up my first position in the big city: interning at RBS’ risk department. That’s right, I had made it to the big time… And then rent happened… And bills… So with accrued holiday time but no […]
-
14th April 2015
Six challenges and opportunities for a better post-2015 development data revolution
The data revolution in international development continues to draw attention and take shape as the third annual International Conference on Financing for Development approaches in Addis Ababa this July. At Evidence for Development, the pursuit of strong data and baselines for programme design, monitoring and evaluation is central to our work in measuring and supporting […]
-
Livelihood baseline assessment of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso: Quantitative analysis of household economies (2014)
This assessment was undertaken on behalf of UNHCR to provide baseline information on the livelihoods of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, to identify opportunities for greater economic self-reliance, and to highlight risks and vulnerabilities of specific groups within the population. This report covers the three official refugee camps in Burkina Faso: Sag Nioniogo, Goudebou and Mentao.
-
8th December 2013
Helping to rebuild communities in northern Uganda
You might remember all the attention last year on stopping Joseph Kony and the LRA. For the past two weeks I’ve been with Self Help Africa (SHA) in a region of northern Uganda that was severely affected by the conflict – in many villages, a whole generation of young adults are missing – and there […]
-
2nd December 2013
Evidence for Development’s BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge!
Very exciting news! Evidence for Development have been nominated by the Reed Foundation to take part in this year’s Big Give. This means that any donation you make to EfD between Thursday 5th – Saturday 7th December should be DOUBLED! EfD aims to raise enough money to fund two promising students to study on key Master’s courses in Uganda, helping to build local expertise to fight poverty […]