Recent Publications
Outcome Mapping: Reflecting and Learning from Applications in Eastern Africa
Outcome Mapping: Reflecting and Learning from Applications in Eastern Africa(2012) The book comes at the close of a period during which the Institute led a series of training workshops on the methodology. It contains details of a survey on the understanding and use of the methodology and a review of a few selected application experiences in the region. We found this content useful since the effectiveness of outcome mapping as a program management, monitoring and evaluation… Read More »
Capturing Lessons from the Field: The Writeshop Process
Capturing Lessons from the Field: The Writeshop Process (2011) IIRR has reached another milestone in its knowledge sharing mission by advocating for innovation in documentation, through the conduct of its first International Training on Capturing Lessons from the Field: The WRITESHOP Process. These e-books are outputs of the writeshops conducted within the writeshop training courses. They are compilations of field-based cases that demonstrate initiatives and good practices in community driven development. Output of the 2011 International… Read More »
Value Chain Finance
Value Chain Finance: Beyond Microfinance for Rural Entrepreneurs (2010) In large parts of the world, small-scale farmers, traders and processors are constrained in their business operations due to a lack of finance. Farmers want to be paid immediately, but traders do not have the ready cash to buy their produce. Traders need working capital so they can buy and transport produce but lack the collateral to get loans. Processors cannot get the money they need to… Read More »
Learning Our Way Out
Learning Our Way Out: Innovation for Family Planning and Reproductive Health (2010) This book describes the experiences of a community-based discovery and learning approach that was used to address community problems including population and development issues in Ethiopia. The approach seeks to show that family planning should be seen within the broader context of economic, social, and environmental development. Issues covered are how LOWO relates to family planning, reproductive health patterns, savings and credit cooperatives, and… Read More »
Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences from the Horn of Africa
Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction: Exeriences from the Horn of Africa(2011) As incidences of disasters and number of people affected continue to rise, the poor especially in the global south have been disproportionately affected. Many decades of disaster relief has failed to address the underlying causes of vulnerability leading to perpetual aid dependency. There has been a fundamental misplaced assumption that vulnerable communities are helpless victims with very little if any to contribute towards disaster risk… Read More »
