Give and take

I am so excited! By posting the invitation to our Net-Map training on the email lists of MandE (Rick Davies’ great Monitoring and Evaluation platform) and KM4Dev (Knowledge Management for Development) I have spurred an absolutely unexpected wave of reactions. We offer the option to participate in the workshop online and I have received applications [...]

Net-Map Training in Washington

You want to learn how to use Net-Map in your own specific context, get a first idea of the social network measures we use to understand our data, be guided through the process of data entry and ask me all your remaining questions?
Why not participate in our IFPRI seminar:
Net-Map Tool-Pool Training for Research and Impact [...]

The Role of Networks in Innovation Systems

My colleagues at the ISNAR (International Service for National Agricultural Research) Division of IFPRI have done a lot of research into the role of networks in agricultural innovation systems in such diverse settings as Bolivia and Ethiopia. So I’m excited that David Spielman (ISNAR) and Regina Birner (also IFPRI, Development Strategy Division DSG) asked [...]

German students analyse governance networks in Himalaya-Hindukusch-Pamir Region

In a new collaboration between InWent (Capacity Building International, Germany), teamconsult (Company for Project Management and Organisational Development, Germany) and IFPRI, we will train and support German students to use Net-Map to understand the complex formal and informal networks of mountain governance in the Himalaya-Hindukusch-Pamir Region.
This is part of the ASA student exchange program organized [...]

Upcoming events

The Net-Map toolbox will go on its first trip around the world in December and January. I will present and discuss the tool as the following venues and dates:
China, Beijing, Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (2nd of December 2007)
Italy, Rome, International Fund for Agricultural Development (17th of December 2007)
Germany, [...]