TY - NEWS TI - Stop Trying to Save the World: Big ideas are destroying international development AU - Hobbes, Michael T2 - New Republic AB - Gives some examples of poorly designed interventions (e.g. The play pump) DA - 2014/11/18/ PY - 2014 UR - https://newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it ER - TY - NEWS TI - Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In AU - Gettleman, Jeffrey T2 - The New York Times AB - 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 CY - BANGWEULU WETLANDS, Zambia DA - 2015/01/24/ PY - 2015 SE - AFRICA UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-nets-for-malaria-spawn-new-epidemic-overfishing.html?_r=1 ER - TY - NEWS TI - Five tips for evaluating your impact in international development AU - Pasanen, Tiina T2 - The Guardian AB - 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. DA - 2015/08/28/ PY - 2015 SE - Working in Development UR - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/aug/28/impact-evaluations-international-development-how-to Y2 - 2018/11/10/00:00:00 ER - TY - NEWS TI - The fascinating world of unconscious bias and development policy AU - d’Almeida, André Corrêa AU - Grossi, Amanda Sue T2 - The Guardian AB - 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? DA - 2016/09/13/ PY - 2016 DP - The Guardian LA - en-GB SE - Global Development Professionals Network SN - 0261-3077 UR - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/13/the-fascinating-world-of-unconscious-bias-and-development-policy?CMP=new_1194&CMP= Y2 - 2016/10/09/17:58:28 KW - Academic experts KW - Higher Education Network KW - Neuroscience KW - Psychology KW - education KW - higher education ER -