@article{dalmeida_fascinating_2016, chapter = {Global Development Professionals Network}, title = {The fascinating world of unconscious bias and development policy}, issn = {0261-3077}, url = {https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/13/the-fascinating-world-of-unconscious-bias-and-development-policy?CMP=new_1194&CMP=}, abstract = {In the last few years scientists have exposed thinking patterns that may skew our decision-making. How can we counter these biases in humanitarian work?}, language = {en-GB}, urldate = {2016-10-09}, journal = {The Guardian}, author = {d’Almeida, André Corrêa and Grossi, Amanda Sue}, month = sep, year = {2016}, keywords = {Academic experts, Higher Education Network, Neuroscience, Psychology, education, higher education}, } @article{gettleman_meant_2015, address = {BANGWEULU WETLANDS, Zambia}, chapter = {AFRICA}, title = {Meant to {Keep} {Malaria} {Out}, {Mosquito} {Nets} {Are} {Used} to {Haul} {Fish} {In}}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-nets-for-malaria-spawn-new-epidemic-overfishing.html?_r=1}, abstract = {Nets like his are widely considered a magic bullet against malaria — one of the cheapest and most effective ways to stop a disease that kills at least half a million Africans each year. But Mr. Ndefi and countless others are not using their mosquito nets as global health experts have intended. Nobody in his hut, including his seven children, sleeps under a net at night. Instead, Mr. Ndefi has taken his family’s supply of anti-malaria nets and sewn them together into a gigantic sieve that he uses to drag the bottom of the swamp ponds, sweeping up all sorts of life: baby catfish, banded tilapia, tiny mouthbrooders, orange fish eggs, water bugs and the occasional green frog}, journal = {The New York Times}, author = {Gettleman, Jeffrey}, month = jan, year = {2015}, } @article{hobbes_stop_2014, title = {Stop {Trying} to {Save} the {World}: {Big} ideas are destroying international development}, url = {https://newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it}, abstract = {Gives some examples of poorly designed interventions (e.g. The play pump)}, journal = {New Republic}, author = {Hobbes, Michael}, month = nov, year = {2014}, } @article{pasanen_five_2015, chapter = {Working in Development}, title = {Five tips for evaluating your impact in international development}, url = {https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/28/impact-evaluations-international-development-how-to}, abstract = {How can impact evaluations actually be helpful? These top tips will save development professionals time, energy and money. International development can be messy – with uncertain, complex settings, and multiple partners with different interests, goals and capacities. At the same time, we are under increasing pressure to demonstrate impact. We have to show that our projects have made a real change in people’s lives and that donor or taxpayer money hasn’t been wasted. But impact evaluations, which are often seen as a solution to this, aren’t always used. And in some cases they are unhelpful. So how can we improve the quality of impact evaluations, so that they produce results that are useful? This is where evaluability assessments come in. By asking whether we should evaluate a project – and if so, when and how – these assessments can improve the quality of impact evaluations. Here are five other reasons to assess evaluability before starting an impact evaluation.}, urldate = {2018-11-10}, journal = {The Guardian}, author = {Pasanen, Tiina}, month = aug, year = {2015}, }