Evaluation, Learning and Change in Research and Development Organizations: Concepts, Experiences, and Implications for the CGIAR

learning, Evaluation, Change, ISNAR, research, CGIAR, development, Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Security and Poverty, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR

This report summarizes papers presented and the discussions that took place at the workshop on Institutional Learning and Change in the CGIAR. It addresses evaluation of agricultural research on poverty in developing countries. Some of the implications emerging from this workshop include: (1) designing evaluation that focus on the target audience's questions (as opposed to those that interest the evaluator). (2)selecting methods that best answer these questions and that optimize the relevance of the inquiry to organizational members (3) employing procedures that maximising the involvement and learning of organizational members and stakeholders (4) being proactive about communicating, as opposed to assuming that recipients will read & understand reports (5) for senior managers: ensuring that internal evaluators have a clear and formal mandate to support organizational learning (6) using evaluations to develop leadership.Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ,Impact assessment ,

Endemic goitre: with special reference to its occurrence in the Loch Tay district of Perthshire

Section I. INTRODUCTION. Definition. Synonyms. Introductory remarks. Notes on the Climate, Topography, etc., etc., of the Loch Tay area of Perthshire. • Section II. HISTORICAL OUTLINE References by Greek and Roman writers. Endemic Goitre in the Middle Ages. Modern Investigators, etc. • Section III. DISTRIBUTION. Geographical Distribution - Europe, Asia, etc - die - tribution in Britain. Physiographical Distribution. Influence of factors - elevations, latitude, urban or rural, etc. Geological Distribution. • Section IV. A. ETIOLOGY. Influence of certain factors: -- Position in animal Kingdom; race; age; heredity; sex; etc. • Section IV. B. ETIOLOGY - ESSENTIAL CAUSE. Introduction. Water as the usual vehicle. Non-organic theories of Causation. Organic theories of causation. Epidemic goitre, etc. • Section V. PATHOLOGY. Pathology of the Thyroid Tumour. Haematological changes. Changes in the Iodine Content of the Gland. Probable pathogenesis of the condition. • Section VI. COURSE AND SYMPTOMS. • Section VII. OBJECTIVE SIGNS, DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS. Clinical appearance and palpation of the thyroid enlargement. Differential diagnosis. Prognosis. • Section VIII. TREATMENT. Palliative treatment. Curative and Palliative treatment. • Section IX. ADDITIONAL REMARK, ETC. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS. • Section X. RECORDED CASES. • Section XI. APPENDIX. • Section XII BIBLIOGRAPHY • MAPS. I. Goitre Map of the World. II. Goitre Map of Scotland. III. Goitre Map of Perthshire (Distribution in School Children) IV. Goitre Map of the Loch Tay Endemic Area. V.& VI. Geological Map and Section of the Loch Tay Endemic Area

Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR: summary record of the workshop held at IFPRI, Washington, DC, February 4-6, 2003

Originally published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as: Mackay, Ronald, and Douglas Horton, eds. 2003. Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR: summary record of the workshop held at IFPRI, Washington, DC, February 4-6, 2003. Impact Assessment Discussion Paper 18. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.This report summarizes the papers presented and the discussions that took place at the workshop on Institutional Learning and Change in the CGIAR held at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C. from February 4–6, 2003. The workshop brought to together researchers, donors, and practitioners to develop a strategy for promoting a culture and set of practices conducive to institutional learning and change (ILAC) within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system

Calculating qalys: Liberalism and the value of health states

The value of health states is often understood to depend on their impact on the goodness of people's lives. As such, prominent health states metrics are grounded in particular conceptions of wellbeing – e.g. hedonism or preference satisfaction. In this paper, I consider how liberals committed to the public justification requirement – the requirement that public officials choose laws and policies that are justifiable to their citizens – should evaluate health states. Since the public justification requirement prohibits public officials from appealing to controversial conceptions of the good life, liberals committed to this principle face a significant puzzle