Researchers and academia seldom think about the foot soldiers who collect data by travelling to villages, blocks, or districts and interviewing households and communities.
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Experts gather for a BRACC resilience learning event
More than 65 representatives of implementing partners, government ministries and other actors working on resilience gathered for a one-and-a-half-day event on February 11 and 12 in Lilongwe, to explore the outcomes of the recently completed baseline s... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Training enumerators in quality data collection for the Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change (BRACC) Programme
DFID has designed the Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change (BRACC) programme to strengthen the resilience of poor households in four districts in southern Malawi to current and projected weather and climate-related shocks and stresses. BRACC places a strong emphasis on monitoring and learning to generate robust evidence on what works and what does >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
A renewed vision for agricultural research in Sri Lanka
At the ASTI launch workshop in Sri Lanka, held late April at the University of Peradeniya, organizers from the university’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Administration brought nearly 30 representatives from agricultural research agencies around the country together to discuss the status and trends of agricultural research investment in Sri Lanka, clarify the methodology […] Source: Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators