Demand driven etc. (part 2)

If we want “demand driven” not to be just another a buzz word to increase fundability of our projects, we have to (as I write below) ask a different set of questions to our stakeholders. Instead of asking: “What kind of research do you need to solve this problem?”, we need to ask: “What is [...]

Use Net-Map for group formation (by Jennifer Hauck)

There I am again – surfacing from the fieldwork with quite exiting results. Remember… At the end of the main phase of my PhD research on fisheries in small reservoirs in September 2007, I invited the fishermen to feed back information. I did not want to pay my interview partners for different reasons. On the [...]

Demand-driven, stakeholder-oriented etc. etc. research

As I explored in an earlier post, my last trip to Ghana was aimed at (amongst other things) getting a better understanding of the integration of research and governance: “How can we increase the impact of policy oriented research through improved collaborations on the ground?” One thing that my 3 years in Ghana have taught [...]