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"This report describes the methods and results of an operations research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision (WV)'s food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) program in the Central Plateau region of Haiti. The research had three main objectives: (1) to...
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The benefits that students gain from designing and implementing their own independent undergraduate research projects is often presented as a valuable step in their academic career, and a stepping stone to graduate school success. However, it is not clear what benefits students receive when...
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risk assessment. At this point a risk manager would probably choose a qualitative approach or a quantitative one? This …
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, Vietnam, Laos, and Indonesia. In an impact assessment study of all 18 ACIAR projects, Lindner and McLeod (2008) calculated …
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This paper reports on the implementation of a pilot program aimed at improving student writing in a intermediate macroeconomics course. The Program attempted to reduce what is labelled the <i>expectations gap</i> between student and academic perceptions of what constitutes "good writing". This was done...
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suggests that a general assessment of the state of the art is valuable and maybe indispensable. As a guiding principle for our …
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yet a general acceptance or standardized knowledge management assessment approach. The most utilized methods are the one …
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achieve the goal.This paper proposes a methodology on water supply vulnerability assessment, specifically for meeting basic …
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assessment (IA). Until recently, such work had focused on the rates of adoption of improved germplasm and returns on investment …, CIMMYT's Impacts Targeting and Assessment Unit (ITAU) began to develop and promote more wide-ranging types of IA. In order to …
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"Momentum is building in and around Africa today for policy action to decisively confront hunger and malnutrition. If we are to succeed, it is vital that food and nutrition security strategies be both sound and able to be implemented. Ultimately, strategies deficient in either of these two areas...
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