martes, 12 de febrero de 2013

Answer to Innovation Fund: Tools In Search of a Problem | Global Integrity

Innovation Fund: Tools In Search of a Problem | Global Integrity

The staff posses a question, here is a short and perhaps modest answer

"How others have faced a similar dilemma"

Dear Global Integrity Staff

As far as I understand #testing123 project faced that problem of producing tools with disappointing results from its very conception. But in terms of further investigating what things work and what doesn´t, almost any outcome resulting is a contribution to previous state of the art. In other words, and if I understood the question correctly, there is no disappointing result if we (you), to a certain extent, are able to keep track of what happened; maybe by asking selected projects to provide information from where to start a case study analysis or something similar.  

An example of a work made by the IDRC whom I think more or less faced a similar dilemma is the one I here post. To some extent these book tries and successfully achieve a compilation of what things work and what does not, after investing huge amount of money on developmental projects. They gather these experiences and provide useful theoretically driven cases that I am sure had serve to illustrate other organizations but also students around the world. (e-book is free and electronically available)

KNOWLEDGE TO POLICY: Making the Most of Development Research
http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=70

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